Month: July 2022

Kieswetters Enjoy A Lark With The Rise of Candleford

The victory of the William Haggas-trained Candleford (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) in the Duke of Edinburgh H. at Royal Ascot can be considered one of the outstanding performances during five days of top-class action. The 4-year-old, who was given a 13lb-hike in the weights for that six-length success, returns to the track at Newmarket this Friday, but his resounding win at the royal meeting will live long in the memory of his owner/breeders, the Kieswetter family of Barnane Stud, for a number of reasons.

“It's actually a really cool story because Candleford is the very first homebred winner that my family has had under the name of Barnane Stud since we took over the farm,” says Craig Kieswetter, the South African-born former England cricketer, who has now turned his sporting talents to golf as well as Thoroughbred breeding.

He and his parents Wayne and Belinda and brother Ross are not newcomers to the business, however. In South Africa they own the picturesque Ridgemont Highlands farm in the Western Cape, which is now home to the former Richard Hannon-trained five-time Group 1 winner Canford Cliffs (Ire). Formerly known as Highlands Stud, Wayne Kieswetter bought the property from Antony Beck in 2017.

His son continues, “We've had a lot of winners that we've bought, a lot of the time through the Doyle family who are very close friends. But Candleford was the first homebred here. He won his maiden at Windsor last August and then obviously he's the first homebred Royal Ascot runner and winner. So it's incredible.”

Following the Ridgemont Highlands purchase, the family acquired Barnane Stud, which is run by Patrick Wynn-Jones and Topsy Squarey and is based just outside Templemore, Co Tipperary. The farm is now home to around 15 European-bought mares, and acts as a satellite for visitors from South Africa.

“Barnane was set up to be dual purpose, really,” Kieswetter explains. “One aim was obviously to be a commercial operation, northern hemisphere. Also we sent over five or six mares that we breed to stallions on southern hemisphere time. We then send the progeny back to South Africa to try and either make a stallion or to bring in some quality-bred fillies to continue to strengthen the broodmare band.

“Barnane is a boutique farm and we are encouraged to start trying to expand. We've been having to look around to see if there's any land available.”

He continues, “Both farms are targeted to be commercial operations. The South African farm is much bigger. It has over 120 mares and we now have six stallions. Like most farms, we tend to keep the well-bred fillies to restock the broodmare band, but with more than 120 mares, there are plenty of foals and yearlings, so we have to sell some.

“We are very lucky that we've got a very experienced and very passionate team on both sides. It's fantastic when things come together for everyone because, as we know, this industry takes a lot of hard work. And you can take a lot of knocks as well.”

The lows in breeding and racing are inevitable, which is why celebrating the good days is of the utmost importance. Though their parents had departed England earlier in the week, brothers Craig and Ross were at Royal Ascot on the Friday to celebrate their biggest success in this part of the world.

“It was fantastic, just an incredible day,” Craig reflects. “It's just a real high of emotions. I think William [Haggas] is a genius and he knows what he's doing. The initial discussion he's had with our team is to target Candleford for the Ebor. At the end of the day, he's the genius and the trainer and we're just delighted to be on this exciting journey with him.”

That stepping stone towards Haggas's beloved York comes closer to home for Candleford on his local track at Newmarket in the 1 3/4-mile Bet365 Trophy, for which he is set to start favourite. The Kieswetters bought his dam Dorcas Lane (GB) (Norse Dancer {GB}) with him in utero at the Tattersalls December Sale of 2017 from Bjorn Nielsen. The 14-year-old mare, winner of the Listed Pretty Polly S. at Newmarket when trained by Lucy Wadham, was named after the postmistress in Flora Thompson's Lark Rise To Candleford trilogy. Her son is thus aptly named, and Candleford is the second Royal Ascot winner for Dorcas Lane following her Frankel (GB) first foal Atty Persse (Ire), who won the King George V H. for Godolphin in 2017.

The mare has a full-brother to Atty Persse named Postmaster General (Ire), as well as a Sea The Stars (Ire) 2-year-old filly Maman Joon (Ire) among her youngsters on the way through. Among her fellow residents at Barnane Stud is Urban Fox (GB) (Foxwedge {Aus}), who was bought at the same December Sale and went on to win the G1 Pretty Polly S. at the Curragh in the Barnane Stud colours, as well as finishing runner-up in the G1 Nassau S. and G1 Prix Jean Romanet.

“Urban Fox is doing well,” Kieswetter reports. “She visited Dubawi for her first two coverings and is now in foal to Frankel.”

Reflecting on his parents' long involvement with horses, he adds, “My father has been in horses his whole life. He used to ride as an amateur and work in yards. And then when my brother and I were young and at school, that sort of took a backseat. Then we both left home and mum and dad picked it up again. Mum got quite involved in dressage and eventing and the old man got back into the racing scene. It has always been a passion of his and mum's and it's something that's been very quickly picked up by Ross and I.

“It just kind of grew quite quickly really. We bought the farm in South Africa and our first purchase after buying the farm was Canford Cliffs from the Coolmore team. Then this farm [Barnane] came up and Peter Doyle showed mum, dad and Ross. The three of them went and looked and fell in love with it. And it has just snowballed from there really.”

Along with their Flat breeding interests, Barnane Stud also has a handful of jumpers in training in Ireland with Willie Mullins, including the Punchestown Grade 1 winner Echoes In Rain (Fr) (Authorized {Ire}) and the listed-winning hurdler My Sister Sarah (Ire) (Martaline {GB}).

Craig's introduction to National Hunt racing came during his cricketing days in Somerset, when he was introduced to David Pipe and his father, the legendary former trainer, Martin.

“I met David Pipe and Tom Scudamore at a cricket match and they invited me down to the yard with my brother, my old man and Craig Carey. Martin Pipe was there, showing us the yard and the gallops, and then he challenged me to a game of table tennis and said that if he beat me, I would have to buy a jumper.

“So obviously with my youthful exuberance, I thought, 'Well, there's no chance I'm going to lose to the pensioner'. Needless to say, I get beaten something like 21- 2, and then he sheepishly admitted that his best mate [Chester Barnes] was a six-time Olympic table tennis player, or something like that.”

The Pipe hustle ended in the purchase of Citrus (Fr) (Great Pretender {Ire}), who was later a winner in Craig's own colours over hurdles at Plumpton.

“Anyway, we kept our word,” he says with a laugh. “And now it's quite a diverse portfolio we've got. Willie Mullins, Richard Hannon and William Haggas are our trainers and we've set up a very good relationship with Connor Hoban in Ireland, who does a lot of work for us with the pre-training. It's a nice portfolio on the Flat and over jumps, and it's been successful so far. Now it's about keeping it going.”

And with that it falls back to Candleford, already a trailblazer in Europe for the Barnane Stud team, and a horse who looks to have a bright future in the staying ranks.

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Charge It to Granddam’s Account

This whole industry, as I've often remarked, turns on a delicate pivot. We need pedigree to hold up sufficiently for the big investors to stay in the game, and incidentally to keep the rest of us in business; but we also need a sufficient number of unaccountable aberrations for the little guy to feel he always has some kind of chance, as well. If the top lot at Keeneland September Book I won the GI Kentucky Derby every year, then almost the whole pyramid beneath would collapse. But nor can we afford a Rich Strike (Keen Ice) to turn everything on its head too often, either.

This is why, when it comes to blue hens, we need two types of Lady in our lives. We need Leslie's Lady (Tricky Creek), the $8,000 daughter of a mare once claimed for $5,000 and a stallion who ended up in New Mexico. And we also need Take Charge Lady (Dehere), who was sold for $4.2 million after an elite racetrack career and has proved worth every cent.

In hailing yet another stellar talent under Take Charge Lady in her grandson Charge It (Tapit), we must remember that there is no more cherished tool in pedigree analysis than hindsight. Since we tend only to study the backgrounds of horses that excel sufficiently to claim our attention, it's difficult to avoid post-rationalization. Sure enough, I have often enjoyed demonstrating how Leslie's Lady was actually saturated with genetic quality a couple of generations down.

Given the mosaic of influences behind every Thoroughbred, we hardly ever find ourselves looking at the pedigree of an elite animal and discovering absolutely nowhere to hang our hat. Conversely, however, we seldom consider the countless duds to ask just what went wrong, when their pages often offer far more obvious hooks for quality.

There's an implicit assumption that the fulfilment of genetic potential has been thwarted by the fallibility of our own intervention, which can unravel a Thoroughbred's development at so many stages: foaling, raising, feeding, breaking, training.

Personally, however, I suspect that we're better off admitting that much of what we do will always be contingent on mystery. Of course, you're welcome to pay for a software program that claims to reconcile an infinite number of imponderables into some kind of system. It's your money, and we'll see you on the racetrack. But anyone who has met my charming, cultured and handsome brother will confirm what every Thoroughbred breeder knows, that even full siblings won't necessarily have the slightest thing in common.

It is now a couple of decades since William Schettine banked exactly the same sum for consecutive yearling fillies out of an unraced Rubiano mare he had bought for $42,000 at the 1998 Keeneland November Sale. The first had arrived with the mare, in utero, and was sold to Kenny McPeek for $175,000 at Fasig-Tipton's July Sale. Schettine had obviously liked her, because he had sent the mare straight back to Dehere. This time, the resulting daughter went to Keeneland September where, again offered through Bluewater Sales, she realized the same price from G. Watts Humphrey Jr.

Though named Uplifting, she fell rather flat as a runner, failing to break her maiden in a dozen attempts. Nonetheless her owner was able to cash out for a nice profit, for $450,000 to Glen Hill Farm at the 2004 Keeneland November Sale. Her sister with McPeek having meanwhile turned out to be none other than Take Charge Lady, winner of 11 of 22 starts (including three Grade Is) and nearly $2.5 million for Select Stable.

The more illustrious sister had actually been sold just minutes before in the same ring with a Seeking The Gold cover. As we've already noted, she realized nearly 10 times as much.

Now the only rule in this game is that there are no rules. Just because an identical pedigree had functioned so much better in Take Charge Lady, on the racetrack, it remained perfectly feasible that Uplifting could parlay their genes more effectively in their second career. In the event, however, this has proved one of those occasions when the market's assumptions, about the replication of ability, would be thoroughly vindicated.

Uplifting had been in foal to Came Home when she changed hands. The resulting filly was unraced before making little impact as a producer, and likewise the Smarty Jones filly Uplifting delivered next, who was discarded for $3,200. The mare was then given a chance with Medaglia d'Oro and their gelded son, while he did win a couple of times, ultimately descended to mediocre claiming company. By that stage Uplifting had been culled for $50,000, soon after delivering what unfortunately proved to be her final foal, a minor winner by Rock Hard Ten.

For all concerned, then, Uplifting proved a thoroughly deflating experience. In the meantime, her sister has founded one of the great dynasties of our time.

The most obvious point of departure is that Take Charge Lady was routinely given opportunity commensurate with the cost of her acquisition by Eaton Sales. Okay, so her first date after delivering her Seeking The Gold filly was with Fusaichi Pegasus (then still a six-figure cover); but her remaining eight named foals were by Storm Cat, A.P. Indy, Unbridled's Song, Indian Charlie, War Front (three times) and American Pharoah.

Three of these emulated their dam as Grade I winners: Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song) in the Travers and Clark H.; Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy) in the Florida Derby; and As Time Goes By (American Pharoah) in the Beholder Mile earlier this year. Meanwhile that first foal by Seeking The Gold, Charming, not only instantly recouped $3.2 million as a yearling but then contributed lavishly to her dam's legacy despite curtailed careers both on and off the track. Just five named foals included two elite performers in Omaha Beach (War Front) and Take Charge Brandi (Giant's Causeway), herself since dam of this year's Jerome S. winner Courvoisier (another Tapit).

By the time Take Charge Lady's daughter from the final crop of Indian Charlie arrived at the 2013 September Sale, her page was already decorated by Will Take Charge and Take Charge Indy. With residual value duly guaranteed, the filly was recruited for $2.2 million by Mandy Pope of Whisper Hill Farm, who named her I'll Take Charge. Confined to five starts, she showed fair ability (won a Belmont maiden) before commencing her second career and has wasted little time in coming up with a colt eligible to recover her cost in Charge It, her second foal. (The other is a daughter of Medaglia d'Oro, also retained by her breeder. She has required patience, now four, but has suggested the ability to win a race, again placed at Monmouth only last week).

The imposing gray Charge It could obviously have made good money as a yearling, but he looks like repaying the gamble of his retention for Pope's racing division. Unraced at two, thanks partly to an eye infection, he progressed quickly enough to run second in the GI Curlin Florida Derby, but remained pretty raw on the first Saturday in May. He apparently displaced his soft palate anyway, but was sensibly given an easy time once his chance had gone and, regrouping for the GIII Dwyer S. last Saturday, outclassed a short field by a jaw-dropping 23 lengths. He's clearly going to be a force in what is promising, after a messy Triple Crown series, to prove a dynamic second half of the year among the sophomores. Indeed, his 111 Beyer at Belmont is the top of the crop to date.

In the current context, it requires some effort to take a step back and see what lurks beyond the neon presence of his granddam in Charge It's pedigree. On doing so, however, you notice at once the branding of a second mighty mare. For Tapit's dam Tap Your Heels (Unbridled) is, of course, out of the celebrated Ruby Slippers (Nijinsky)–whose son Rubiano (by Unbridled's sire Fappiano) gave us Take Charge Lady's dam Felicita.

Through a double dose of Rubiano, interestingly, Ruby Slippers also has a top-and-bottom footprint in Omaha Beach, arguably the most brilliant member of this clan: in counterweight to Felicita (third dam, as with Charge It), his sire War Front is out of a Rubiano mare.

Tapit, meanwhile, already has a monster talent out of an Indian Charlie mare in Flightline. (Pope and her team wisely bred I'll Take Charge back to the Gainesway phenomenon after she delivered an Into Mischief colt this spring). Indian Charlie's record as a broodmare sire has also been lately enhanced by siblings Mitole (Eskendereya) and Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow). In terms of distaff influence, however, few modern stallions have been more abundantly qualified than the sire of Take Charge Lady herself. Dehere is by one outstanding broodmare sire in Deputy Minister, out of the daughter of another in Secretariat.

Take Charge Lady's dam Felicita, as noted, was unraced but her siblings included a couple of bright streaks of green, in a Group 1-placed juvenile in Europe plus the dam of GII Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Chamberlain Bridge (War Chant). That figures, their mother being by Blushing Groom (Fr)–himself, of course, another killer broodmare sire.

Besides Take Charge Lady, Felicita gave us a couple of minor graded stakes operators–one of whom (by Lear Fan) became a triple black-type producer, notably with Grade II winner/Grade I runner-up Straight Story (Giant's Causeway), also on turf. But some excellent covers, for instance by A.P. Indy twice and Deputy Minister, proved less productive. And, as we've already elaborated, repeat matings with Dehere could not have yielded more contrasting results.

Take Charge Lady, sadly lost to foaling complications in 2018, has founded a dynasty that only continues to proliferate. Omaha Beach, having received all the support he has been priced to tempt, surely has a massive chance in his new career, having exceptionally spanned his Grade I success across six and nine furlongs in the same season. And Charge It, if he can build from here, will similarly bring one of the best families around into the competition to succeed an ageing sire.

Yet how perplexing, to witness all this, for those who invested in her sister. Even our old standby, hindsight, can't really help them this time.

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Soumillon ‘Very Confident’ In Perfect Power Ahead Of Saturday’s July Cup

Just one week on from his stunning last-to-first success on the brilliant Vadeni in Sandown's Coral-Eclipse Stakes, jockey Christophe Soumillon has another plum ride on a top-class 3-year-old with a signature turn of foot when he partners Richard Fahey's Commonwealth Cup winner Perfect Power in a top-drawer international field of 14 for Saturday's Darley July Cup.

The Belgian-born multiple French champion jockey has travelled over to ride Perfect Power four times already since their first win together in last year's Prix Morny at Deauville, and the only time they were beaten was in entirely excusable circumstances over a mile in the QIPCO 2000 Guineas.

A close bond has plainly developed between the pair and Soumillon is excited about continuing the partnership in the July Cup, which is part of the QIPCO British Champions Series. He said: “I'm very confident about him. The way he did it at Royal Ascot last time was very impressive, as we were quite far back. It showed we have a top-class sprinter on our hands.

“His turn of foot is his special weapon. For a sprinter he is able to settle very easily, and when you ask him to quicken he's able to show that turn of foot which not so many horses have. He's very easy to ride now that he starts so much better out of the gates than he did last year, as that makes it much easier to stay in a good position.

“He does everything perfectly now. I've ridden him five times and won four of them, including three Group 1s, so he's quite special to me. The only time we didn't win was in the Guineas, over a mile, and when you see a horse like him that is as good as he is over six furlongs and seven furlongs it's not really surprising that he's not as good at a mile.”

The Commonwealth Cup, first run in 2015, has proved a good stepping stone for July Cup winners Muhaarar (winner at Royal Ascot in that first year), Harry Angel (second there in 2017) and Ten Sovereigns (fourth in 2019). Also taking that route this year are length-and-a-quarter runner-up Flaming Rib, fourth-placed Cadamosto, who is bidding to give Aidan O'Brien an outright record sixth July Cup win and the well-beaten Twilight Jet.

Hugo Palmer has supplemented Flaming Rib at a cost of £36,000 and told Jockey Club News: “It was a great run at Royal Ascot and we've got no reason to think he won't run a big race in the July Cup.

“He's the fifth favorite and the four horses ahead of him in the market have got reasons to be there. We've got to beat our twice conqueror in Perfect Power and the horses that filled the first three places in the Platinum Jubilee as well. We can only worry about our horse and I'm really looking forward to running him.”

The Platinum Jubilee first three who Palmer referred to were the Godolphin stable-mates Naval Crown and Creative Force, who were separated by just a neck, and the Australian challenger Artorius, who was half a length away, finishing well. Happy Romance, triple Group 1 winner Alcohol Free, Double Or Bubble and Emaraaty Ana, who is another Group 1 winner, were among those further behind that day.

Charlie Appleby finds it hard to choose between his pair, who were also first and second in last year's Jersey Stakes and said: “They've obviously been given a bit of a quiet time since the Platinum Jubilee but they've both come out of Royal Ascot very well and they pleased me in what was just an easy piece of routine work on Saturday.

“They are hard to split on form as everyone can see, but one of them is still a young sprinter in terms of experience, and that's Naval Crown, who is still learning about sprinting, whereas Creative Force brings a lot of experience to the race.

“The July Cup can be a different sort of race to the Platinum Jubilee, as they tend to race in one group whereas at Ascot they often split. When Creative Force ran in the July Cup last year it was his first time sprinting and I thought he ran a great race in a close fifth after being slow out of the gates. He was just learning about sprinting then, but he's had a lot of experience now and you can't fault him. I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be a great race.”

Artrorius would be a first winner of the July Cup to be trained in Australia, although 2010 winner Starspangledbanner made his name there before switching to Aidan O'Brien. Sam Freedman, who trains Artorius in partnership with his father Anthony, has been delighted with the colt since the Platinum Jubilee and is optimistic.

He said: “We think he's improved a bit since Ascot. His coat is better and he seems a bit sharper and more switched on since the run. He's very fresh too, and that's the main thing. We've still got some unfinished business, so hopefully he can go two places better.

“We are not going to be able to change the way he runs – he's always going to be back a bit – but at Ascot he just needed a bit of luck at the right time and didn't get it. It showed though that we'd brought the right sort of horse and seeing him perform so well there was very satisfying.”

Jamie Spencer takes the ride again and Freedman, who is already talking about bringing Artorius back again next summer, thinks the pair are perfect for one another. He said: “Jamie has come in and done a fair bit of work on him, and he and Artorius seem like a match made in heaven. Hopefully they can work well together at the weekend.”

Japanese challenger King Hermes, who has also been lodging in Newmarket, represents Yoshito Yahagi, whose Triple Crown winner Contrail signed off in style in the Japan Cup and who has also made a massive impact internationally, with two winners at last year's Breeders' Cup followed by winners in the spring at both Riyadh and at Meydan, where he was successful three times on Dubai World Cup night.

Japan's first ever win in the UK came in the 2000 July Cup, courtesy of Agnes World, and while King Hermes' has been racing over further and so has less obvious prospects, he will merit plenty of respect.

Speaking to Jockey Club News after watching King Hermes gallop on the July Course on Tuesday, Yahagi said: “I've always dreamed of having a winner of the July Cup. That is how much I like the race and the racecourse, and that is why I'm looking forward to it.

“This work will make the horse understand how to run on the day. I was worried about (the lack of experience he might have) but after seeing the horse today I'm quite confident he will manage the July Cup. It is the first time the jockey (Ryusei Sakai) has ridden in the UK because of visa issues, but he has experience riding in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Australia and France so I'm not worried about that.”

The field is completed by Romantic Proposal, who was a Group 1 winner over five furlongs last year, and Blackrod, who won a valuable handicap over course and distance 12 months ago but is taking a big step up in class.

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Mighty Ulysses Wins The Henry Cecil

Frankie Dettori marked the end of his brief sabbatical from the Gosdens with a win on the 11-10 favourite Mighty Ulysses (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}) in Thursday's Listed Edmondson Hall Solicitors Sir Henry Cecil S. at Newmarket. A close-up fifth in the G1 St James's Palace S. at Royal Ascot, Saeed Suhail's progressive bay was keen on the front end throughout the early stages but had enough in reserve to take control inside the final furlong and beat Alflaila (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) by 1 1/2 lengths. It is clear that John Gosden believes he has a genuine group 1 horse on his hands. “Coming from so wide in the St James's Palace, his run just petered out the last 40 or 50 yards after he had come to win it,” he said. “He will stay at this trip now and there is a three-year-old only group three [the Thoroughbred S.] to look at. That would be a logical place to go.”

Mighty Ulysses's road to Royal Ascot was unorthodox, with a fifth in Epsom's 10-furlong Listed Blue Riband Trial Apr. 19 followed by an impressive novice win over this trip on the Rowley Mile here May 13 and a second in Haydock's Silver Bowl H. May 21. Nonetheless, collated time performances suggested he was a valid contender in the St James's Palace and he proved it by ending up less than a length off Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) having endured a less favourable trip than that peer in the June 14 feature. “It was a bit of a mess-up, as he is a horse that likes a lead,” Dettori said of his . “I found myself in front and I knew it was going to be a sprint, but he managed to get me out of trouble. It went completely the opposite to how I wanted, but he is a talented horse that has got a nice future. He has never had a proper run at it. He will be an interesting horse for next year.”

The listed-winning dam, who has a yearling filly by Lope de Vega (Ire) and a foal full-brother to the winner, hails from the Hascombe and Valiant Studs family of the G1 Coronation S. heroine Rebecca Sharp (GB) (Machiavellian) and this stable's Derby, Eclipse, Irish Champion S. and Arc-winning sensation Golden Horn (GB).

EDMONDSON HALL SOLICITORS SIR HENRY CECIL S.-Listed, £52,000, Newmarket, 7-7, 3yo, 8fT, 1:37.46, g/f.
1–MIGHTY ULYSSES (GB), 131, c, 3, by Ulysses (Ire)
     1st Dam: Token of Love (GB) (SW-Eng, $130,292), by Cape Cross (Ire)
     2nd Dam: Nyarhini (GB), by Fantastic Light
     3rd Dam: Nuryana (GB), by Nureyev
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. (170,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Saeed Suhail; B-Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Frankie Dettori. £29,489. Lifetime Record: 6-3-1-0, $97,828.
2–Alflaila (GB), 131, c, 3, Dark Angel (Ire)–Adhwaa (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB).
1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Shadwell Estate Company Limited (GB); T-Owen Burrows. £11,180.
3–Berkshire Shadow (GB), 131, c, 3, Dark Angel (Ire)–Angel Vision (Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB). (40,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Berkshire Parts & Panels Ltd No1 Fanclub; B-Cheveley Park Stud Limited (GB); T-Andrew Balding. £5,595.
Margins: 1HF, HF, 1HF. Odds: 1.10, 12.00, 4.00.
Also Ran: Monaadah, The Acropolis (Ire), Kingmax (Ire), Dawn of Liberation (Ire), Albahr (GB).

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