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Cullen Birkett Named TDN Europe’s Business Development Manager

Alayna Cullen Birkett has been promoted to Business Development Manager at TDN Europe. Cullen Birkett joined the company as TDN Europe's Marketing Manager in 2017, upon graduating from the Godolphin Flying Start programme, and has prospered in that role ever since.

Cullen Birkett has established strong relationships with the company's European-based clients as well as contributing to the ever-growing TDNtv. She has also initiated a series of improvements on the company's social media platforms.

Gary King, TDN's Senior Vice President, said, “We are delighted to promote Alayna to Business Development Manager. Alayna has worked tirelessly since joining the team six years ago, and this role is well suited to her skillset. TDN Europe has taken on its own identity in recent years, and we expect that to become even more significant in the years to come. Alayna will be integral to that process.”

Cullen Birkett will continue to work alongside TDN Europe's Newmarket-based team of Emma Berry and Sean Cronin, as well as Brian Sheerin in Ireland, Tom Frary in France, and Gary King and Heather Anderson in the U.S. The team is supported by TDN America's Alan Carasso and Christina Bossinakis and the feature writing of Chris McGrath and John Berry.

“I feel incredibly fortunate to have learned an immense amount from Sue, Gary and the TDN team since I started with the company,” said Cullen Birkett. “It has been extremely rewarding to see TDN Europe grow since joining the company and I hope that in my new role I will be able to continue building its market share. I am very grateful to TDN for this opportunity.”

TDN's Publisher & CEO Sue Finley added, “From the time Alayna did her internship with us in 2016, we knew she had a bright future at the TDN. This step is the next logical one in her evolution with the company, and we look forward to her continued success with us.”

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Diane Draw Unkind to Running Lion; Favours Blue Rose Cen

There were the usual winners and losers in equal measure during Thursday's draw for Chantilly's G1 Prix de Diane Longines, with David Howden's Listed Pretty Polly S. winner Running Lion (GB) (Roaring Lion) receiving stall 12 of 15 in Sunday's 10 1/2-furlong Classic. Despite that unfavourable post position and her antics in the starting gate ahead of the Epsom Oaks, the John and Thady Gosden trainee is deemed the likely favourite ahead of Yeguada Centurion SL's G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Blue Rose Cen (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) who drew the inside rail. Ballymore Thoroughbred Ltd's Listed Prix Rose de Mai and G3 Prix Penelope-winning TDN Rising Star Pensee Du Jour (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) was not done any favours in 11 in a race which has been won by fillies drawn in double figures only twice in the last 10 runnings.

One of the duo to overcome a wide post was Star Of Seville (GB) (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}) in 2015, and her trainer John Gosden knows the significance of the draw. “She's a tough filly and she needs to be from stall 12,” he stated. “She's in great form and we're really happy with her and her work has been great this year. She's very business-like, both in the mornings and her races and has shown nothing but a great mental attitude to her racing and has been very consistent.”

Others of note include Ballydoyle's Never Ending Story (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in stall three, Everest Racing's Pouliches runner-up Lindy (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) in 13 and Al Shira'aa Farms's unbeaten G1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Jannah Rose (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in seven. The Saint-Alary runner-up Elusive Princess (Fr) (Martinborough {Jpn}), supplemented by LNJ Foxwoods, is in stall 14.

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Making Waves: Dubawi’s Siskany Supreme At Belmont

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Siskany in the GII Belmont Gold Cup S. at Belmont Park on Friday.

Siskany Finds His Groove In Gold Cup

Godolphin homebred Siskany (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) earned his fourth stakes win in his third different country with a victory in the GII Belmont Gold Cup S. for trainer Charlie Appleby on Friday (video).

A winner of the G3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy earlier in the year, he was also third in the G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern last autumn. The first and best foal so far out of his unraced dam, Siskany has a Ribchester (Ire) yearling half-sister and a half-brother by Sea The Moon (Ger) born this year. He is from the same family as multiple group winner Dartmouth (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who also ran second in the GI Canadian International S.

One of 36 winners from 72 runners (50%) for Darley's Dubawi in the U.S., the Belmont Gold Cup winner is the 19th stakes winner from that cohort (26%) and 14th graded winner (19%). Dubawi's nine Grade I winners (12%) include In Italian (GB), who won the Just A Game S. at Belmont (video) the same day.

 

 

Kingman Colt Shines At Monmouth

AMO Racing's Kingmax (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), who ran third in the 2022 Hampton Court S., found the Jersey Shore to his liking when winning a Monmouth Park allowance in his American bow (video).

Bred by Sunderland Holding, Inc., the dark bay colt was an £120,000 Goffs Orby yearling purchase, and graduated at Kempton at third asking first out at three for trainer David Loughnane.

Out of the G2 Prix de Pomone winner Baino Ridge (Fr) (Jeremy), Kingmax's latest siblings are a 2-year-old colt named Mission To Mars (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), and a Saxon Warrior (Jpn) filly born this spring.

On the same day his King Colorado (Aus) lifted the G1 J.J. Atkins at Eagle Farm in Australia, Juddmonte's Kingman celebrated more success in America. He now has 28 winners from 53 runners (53%) in the Land of the Free. His stakes winners stand at eight (15%) led by triple Grade I winner Domestic Spending (GB).

 

Zarak Filly Strikes At Belmont

West Point Thoroughbreds and Dream With Me Stable's Parnac (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}) collected her fourth win in a Belmont contest on Sunday for trainer Christophe Clement (video).

Bred by Jean-Pierre Dubois, the 4-year-old filly won her first two starts including a German listed race for her breeder and trainer Andreas Wohler before being purchased by these connections. Her dam, third in the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, has a juvenile colt by Cloth Of Stars (Ire). Her fourth dam, Louvre Romaine (Alydar), was third in the G1 Prix de Diane.

Zarak, who sired his 12th international stakes winner with Straight (Ger) in the G2 Union-Rennen on Sunday, has had two runners in the U.S. Parnac is his first winner there.

 

 

Honourable Mentions

Selenaia (Ire) (Sea The Moon {Ger}), who has already featured in this column, made the jump to graded company with aplomb when running away with the GIII Honeymoon S. at Santa Anita on Saturday for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Madaket Stables, LLC and trainer Jonathan Thomas (video). She is the 29th stakes winner and 14th graded/group winner worldwide for her Lanwades Stud sire.

 

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Frankel And Kingman Available On Southern Hemisphere Time

Juddmonte stallions Frankel (GB) and Kingman (GB) will both be available to cover mares on Southern Hemisphere time, the TDN AusNZ reported on Thursday morning. The former will remain at £125,000 and his 50-mare SH book is already mostly full. The latter's fee will be £40,000.

“I had it confirmed to me only this morning [Wednesday] that there are only two stallions in history who have sired a 2-year-old Group 1 winner in Australia having never stood there,” Shane Horan, Juddmonte's stallion nominations manager, told the publication. “Frankel is one and Kingman is the other, and the fact that they're at the same farm at the same time is phenomenal.”

Besides siring G1 J.J. Atkins S. winner King Colorado (Aus) on the weekend, Kingman was also represented by Group 3 winner Sinawann (Ire) taking an Australian listed event during the same timeframe. Of his 23 runners in Australasia,15 are winners. Besides the aforementioned stakes winners, the son of Invincible Spirit (Ire) also has Group 3 winner Emissary (GB) and the Group 3-placed Tass (Aus).

“From a marketing point of view, his big selling point to an Aussie market is that he was a brilliant miler with a high cruising speed and a killer turn of foot,” Horan said. “He passes that on to his progeny. He is also the highest-rated son of Invincible Spirit, who is, of course, the sire of I Am Invincible (Aus), and I Am Invincible has been a revelation in Australia.

“He typically gets them looking like himself,” Horan added. “He's an elegant stallion. He's lightly made and light on his feet. His progeny tend to race with a high head-carriage and he's passing on that great acceleration. It seems like he's ideally suited to those mares with lots of substance, and he will add in all the quality you could ask for.”

“It's hard to predict what sort of numbers we'll expect for him [Kingman] this September,” he said. “I'll know a lot more by the Tattersalls July Sale up here when many of the Australian breeders and agents will be in attendance.”

Frankel's Australasian stats are no less remarkable. The sire of 121 stakes winners worldwide, the 15-year-old has 16 winners from 40 runners Down Under. All 16 of those winners have struck at stakes level, with his 12 group winners led by Group 1 winners Hungry Heart (Aus), Mirage Dancer (GB), and Converge (Aus). The last-named also won the G1 J.J. Atkins.

“Frankel, physically, is a bull of a stallion,” Horan said. “There's probably a lot of Danehill coming through in him. His mother was a very typical Danehill mare, and he's probably more suited by the elegant type of mare. Kingman is probably less fussy on the size of mare sent, but a mare with substance and plenty of bone is recommended.”

Both stallions will stand to Southern Hemisphere time on Special Live Foal (SLF) terms. The fee is payable 45 days from the last service date (when the mare is confirmed in-foal) and should anything happen to the foal within 48 hours of birth in Australia, a full refund on the service fee will be provided. Juddmonte is also supplying a £10,000 travel allowance for mares travelling up from the Southern Hemisphere, which is useful when it comes to a £40,000) service fee for Kingman.

“Kingman is often overshadowed by Frankel, which is understandable,” Horan said. “Frankel has tied with Danehill as the fastest stallion to 100 worldwide stakes winners in terms of numbers of days taken to achieve it, and in terms of getting to 50 stakes winners by number of days, Frankel was also the fastest, beating Dubawi (Ire) who beat Galileo (Ire). But in the meanwhile, Kingman didn't reach 50 as fast as Frankel, but he was quicker to do it than Dubawi and Galileo. So that gives you a perspective on where this horse sits.”

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