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FRENCH 1000 GUINEAS
2012 BEAUTY PARLOUR (Ecurie Wildenstein)
BLUE, LIGHT BLUE CAP
Bleue t. bleu-clairFRENCH 2000 GUINEAS
2012 LUCAYAN (Ahmed Mouknass & Pandora Stud, LLC)
GREEN, YELLOW STAR and ARMLETS, GREEN CAP, YELLOW STARS
Verte une etoile et brass. jaunes t. verte etoiles jaunesThought this would happen. Kelley has decided to race his horse in the Derby with the Calumet colours.
Sea Bird, before you start accusing all Australian trainers of being crooked I suggest you look at the honour roll of the Melbourne Cup that 5 European trained horses have won _ Ireland (2), France (2), Japan (1) and wait for it …………. Britain (0). Some of our greatest horses from the past did things that trainers from your part of the world wouldn’t dream of doing. A lot of your races are contrived for the simple reason of pacemakers involved. Pacemakers are a thing from a bygone era which does nothing for racing and cheapens the sport. We don’t allow pacemakers in Australia. If it wasn’t for pacemakers So You Think would have another 2 group 1 wins to his name. That’s right in a 10f race have a pacemaker go 4 furlongs then leave him to do the donkey work in the lead 5 from home and let him be a sitting duck for a back marker. Look what happened to Frankel in the St James’ Palace Stakes. The pacemaker did absolutely nothing for him and nearly got him beat. If that’s your idea of great racing I’ll take Australia anytime.
For the record Ivanjica, Mr Kelley races horses in the US under the banner of Bluegrass Hall LLC. And his silks are Black, Gold Chevrons, Gold Chevrons on Sleeves, Gold Cap.
I hope Mr Kelley retains the Devil’s Red, Dark Blue bars on Sleeves and Cap silks of Calumet Farm. To see Calumet horses run in different silks would be sacrilege.
She’s been nominated for the G1 All-Aged Stakes at Randwick over 1400m on Saturday. Rain Affair (nice sprinter). King Mufhasa (Kiwi multiple G1 winner). She has the race at her mercy.
Sea BirdII, your answer is simplistic in many ways. Luca Cumani trained Manighar as a 15 furlong plus horse. Black Caviar’s trainer Peter Moody took the horse over in November last year and has injected speed into horse. He was a 2YO winner for the Aga Khan and Alain de Royer Dupre. Moody’s training feat has been nothing less short of amazing. Peter Moody has been champion trainer in Victoria for a number of years, a premiership winning trainer. He is not riding on the coat tails of Black Caviar as Sir Henry Cecil is not riding on the coat tails of Frankel. Both champion trainers in their own right but one horse they will be remembered forever.
You would think, without second guessing Kavanagh, that her trek during the spring would be the Turnbull Stakes, Craiglee Stakes, Caulfield Stakes and Cox Plate.
HOPE THIS HELPS
The name of Arrowfield has been associated with champion stallions for more than 100 years, beginning with the Bowman family’s establishment of their farm at Jerry’s Plains in 1842.
The first Arrowfield rose to prominence as a thoroughbred stud in the early 1900’s under the Moses brothers, standing the leading sire St. Alwyne, and later champion sire Valais.
After a period where the name was more closely associated with wine than horses, Arrowfield was re-born in 1985 as a thoroughbred stud under John Messara’s leadership. Four stallions, Rancher, Prego, Bellotto and Kenmare took up residence at Jerry’s Plains, and the modern era of Arrowfield began when all four proved successful Group 1-producing sires.
In 1989 Arrowfield made one of the single most important purchases in Australian bloodstock history when it selected and purchased a majority interest in Danehill, who proved to be a global breed-shaping influence, and the sire of 89 Group 1 winners – more than any other stallion in history. Danehill stood at Arrowfield alongside other successful stallions including Last Tycoon, Fairy King and Geiger Counter.
After relocating in 1996 to the stud’s present location in the fertile Segenhoe Valley near Scone, Arrowfield enjoyed success with the outstanding sire Snippets before launching the careers of three champion sire sons of Danehill: Danzero (now at Rosemont Stud, Victoria), Flying Spur and Redoute’s Choice.
In 2003 Arrowfield purchased the champion sire of Chile, Hussonet (by Mr Prospector), sire in Australia of Horse of the Year Weekend Hussler and now based at Cornerstone Stud, South Australia. He was followed in 2005 by Charge Forward (by Red Ransom) and Not a Single Doubt, and in 2006 by Snitzel (by Redoute’s Choice) and Starcraft (by Soviet Star). These four young stallions are already established among the leading sires of their generation.
Arrowfield’s latest stallion acquisitions are Group 1 winners All American (by Red Ransom), Manhattan Rain (by Encosta de Lago), the high-class 2YO Beneteau (by Redoute’s Choice) and superstar colt Smart Missile. (by Fastnet Rock).
Notable firsts achieved by the stud in recent years include the first Australian stallions to shuttle to Japan (Snitzel, 2007 & 2011); and the United States (All American, Darby Dan Farm, Kentucky in 2011).
Arrowfield has also bred and/or sold a number of colts who have made their mark as successful sires. These include its own stallions Danzero and Flying Spur, as well as the great New Zealand sire Zabeel, Danewin, Commands, Lion Hunter, Nothin’ Leica Dane, and Catbird.
Arrowfield’s reputation as a stallion maker is evident in a world-class stallion roster headed by the remarkable champion sire, sale-ring sensation and sire of sires Redoute’s Choice.
Arrowfield also enjoys its share of racetrack success and recent stars include champion filly Miss Finland, and Group 1 winners Alinghi, Alverta and All American.
I find the hypocrisy quite amazing. A horse fractures his leg in a flat race over 2 miles and people are getting upset. The horses that die during the jumps season far outweighs anything that happens during the flat season. A lot of flat horses have broken or fractured legs in major races. Ruffian in 1975 was a good example and I’m sure hundreds have since but for a lot of people that have got on the soapbox and then go on the moral high ground and slam Sheikh Mohammed and Dubai racing is disgraceful. Shame, shame, shame.
One More for Washington DC International:
1955 El Chama (Carlos V. Rincones): BLUE, WHITE CROSS SASHES, BLUE AND WHITE CAPHaving said all that what has not been said is the workers that built Meydan did not pay tax on their earnings. The last time I looked I was paying 23 cents in the dollar!
Letters and number designs are out in the UK. For example, Paul Mellon who raced the great Mill Reef had one set of colours in the UK (black, gold cross and stripe on cap) and his Rokeby Stable colours in the US (dark grey, yellow braids, sleeves and cap). Earle Mack’s colours of maroon, yellow rising sun are ever so slightly different in his home country (burgundy, yellow rising sun). As to the question of going to the US to register a different set of silks I couldn’t see why not. Funky colours in the US like electric blue, hot teal, flamingo pink are out in the UK. Sad really.
Colours for 2012 2000 Guineas and Derby nominations.
