‘My Love Of This Industry Is For The Horse’: Stallions the Next Step for Parkin

It is fair to say that Steve Parkin has reimagined the man-with-a-van concept. 

He was that once, until he turned the van that he drove himself into a fleet of lorries, and his business extended from warehouses and distribution to supporting some of Britain's biggest retailers in meeting their increasing online demands.

Clipper Logistics has become a well-known name beyond the business pages, particularly among those who follow horse racing. Thirty years after the company was founded, Parkin sold Clipper to GXO Logistics in May 2022. 

“How does a little fella from Leeds with one van create a billion-pound business?” he asks rhetorically as we sit down in the sumptuous office at his latest acquisition, Dullingham Park Stud.

It's a question which this interviewer was plucking up the courage to ask but, as it transpires, the notebook filled with questions may as well have been left at home. All that was needed was a well-charged phone with the voice recorder playing as Parkin merrily recounts his extraordinary tale with a 'can-hardly-believe-it-myself' subtext.

It barely needs stating in the case of a self-made multi-millionaire, but Parkin's success has not of course happened by chance. He knows he's lucky, with his string of racehorses and sprawling stud farms in Yorkshire and Newmarket, but he would also subscribe to the 'harder you work, the luckier you get' mantra. And he's clearly not resting on his laurels while all around him others carry out his orders. 

No, retirement is very much not on the agenda for the 62-year-old; he's already onto the next project in which he is planning to use his sharp business acumen in complementary harness with his friend and bloodstock advisor, Joe Foley, the owner of Ballyhane Stud in Ireland.

“When I was in business, I always tried to do things properly,” he says. 

In illustration of that, under construction just outside the window are what will clearly be high-spec stallion boxes. Six of them. 

Over the last two decades, Parkin has gone from being a co-owner with friends, to sole owner, to owner-breeder, with his greatest success in the latter regard coming last Sunday with the victory of his homebred Fallen Angel (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. Next come the stallions.

He continues, “Things percolate from the top, so how that person at the top of the tree is, is how the rest of the business will run, and the culture that it creates. I've tried to have this same ethos here, and what we're creating, obviously a lot of it is Joe Foley's doing. But where I step in is the extra ten per cent, if you like, from a business perspective. If I'm going to stand stallions here, I want to go the extra bit just to give that feeling that this is something. It's not a backstreet garage, it's a proper shiny dealership. Hence, why we've put proper stallion boxes in.”

He is certainly not limited in his ambition for what will become Britain's newest stallion operation over the winter in stating that he would like Dullingham Park Stud, which is managed by Ollie Fowlston, to emulate Juddmonte Farms.

“Juddmonte, I think, stand head and shoulders above everybody in this industry,” he says.

Throughout the course of a lengthy conversation we veer from the development of Clipper Logistics to horses, family and his beloved Leeds United, and one thing underpins these meanderings: passion. At a time when British owners-breeders are disappearing faster than polar ice caps, it should be viewed as good news indeed that Parkin has set his heart on buying stud farms instead of football clubs. But it was close.

“I'm a big Leeds United football fan,” Parkin says. “I've come very close on a couple of occasions of buying [the club]. That's a big pull to buy your football club.”

He admits that his finance director David Hodkin wasn't enthused by the idea, but that he also had his own personal reservations.

“It wasn't David who talked me out of it, it was actually thinking of my children,” he continues. “All young, all at school. Your dad buys a football club, the amount of hassle they would get.

“But I said to David, 'Right, if I'm not buying the football club, I'm going to properly go for it with the racing.' And it's hard for a normal business finance director to understand. If I went and bought a warehouse, kitted it out, it starts giving me revenue. Doesn't work like that with racehorses or mares. You've got to wait; it's a building block. Anyway, eventually we upped our ante and spent a bit more money.”

To his growing team of horses in training he added the 300-acre Branton Court Stud near Harrogate, which is now his home to Parkin, his wife Joanne and their four children Fabienne, Delphine, Henri and Severine. The eldest, Fabienne, is often seen at the races and sales and is, according to Parkin, “in love with the game”, while Severine is still in education and studying horse management. Their father is delighted at their shared interest, and it is a love which he in turn inherited from his grandfather and father. 

“On a Saturday afternoon, when they'd been and had their bets, they would sit in front of the telly and argue with each other,” he recalls. “Racing was the only sport you could watch live on TV back then.”

If I'm going to stand stallions here, I want to go the extra bit just to give that feeling that this is something. It's not a backstreet garage, it's a proper shiny dealership.

Trips to York racecourse, initially with his father and later with friends, eventually led to his first foray into ownership. Involvement in a larger syndicate then became co-ownership in the Group 2 winner Captain Rio (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).

“I started to do alright and I owned a couple of horses with this guy who got into financial trouble, so I had to buy him out. I ended up buying Captain Rio off him and through that I met Joe Foley,” he recalls.

“He did a deal with me on Captain Rio and we stood him in Ballyhane. Getting Captain Rio very quickly I thought, 'This is easy this. I paid that and I've just made that from a stallion deal.' And he won a couple of good races so there was plenty of prize-money. So I decided to dabble a bit more, and about one-and-a-half million quid later I finally had another winner.

“At this point, Joe said to me, 'If you don't change or have a strategy, you won't be in racing in five years' time.' And he was right.”

Further transactions have taken place in the interim. Rosdhu Queen (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Parkin's first Group 1 winner, and his German 1,000 Guineas winner Electrelane (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), were bought for 65,000gns and 35,000gns and sold on after their racing careers for 2.1 million gns and 500,000gns, to Coolmore and Shadai Farm respectively. In the meantime, other fillies and mares have been retained or bought to furnish the paddocks at Branton Court Stud, which had its first homebred Royal Ascot winner last year in the G2 Queen Mary S. winner Dramatised (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}). This was followed and trumped by the exploits of Fallen Angel at the Irish Champions Festival. 

That same weekend, Starlust (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}), bred at Branton Court but sold to Jim and Fitri Hay, won the G3 Sirenia S., while the yearling purchase Flight Plan (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) argued his case for a future berth in one of those shiny new stallion boxes by winning the Parkin-sponsored G2 Dullingham Park S. A trip to America and potential Grade I spoils could be next on his agenda.

“My love of this industry is for the horse,” says Parkin, who admits that he came close to turning his back on it all when he lost Agnes Stewart (Ire), the dam of Fallen Angel, just as her filly was ready to be weaned. 

“Don't forget, I watch them being born. Within 20 minutes, a foal's up on its feet. Within three days it's out in a field. Within three months it's then becoming a naughty school kid. I sit on my terrace at home and the fields are all in front of me, and all of the mares and foals are there. I sit there and I watch them, and I'm fascinated with them.

“And when Agnes Stewart died, this is quite corny I suppose, but I used to call to her. She'd be grazing and she'd turn to me. Agnes Stewart was a school in Leeds I used to play against at football and I always thought it would be a good name for a horse. She was a good two-year-old, and then unfortunately she got injured which curtailed the rest of her career.

“I was looking at her one evening in the field and I thought, 'What's she doing?' And then thought, 'That's colic.'

“I was that devastated, I didn't speak to Joe for a month. But she left us with that filly. I mean, what a story, and that's why I was so emotional on Sunday.”

Entering the stallion business plumbs new depths of involvement for the man who already stands two of the best colts he has raced, Soldier's Call (GB) and Space Traveller (GB), at Ballyhane. For Parkin, it is completing the inexorable loop he's been on since his schoolboy days of sending older lads in to the bookies to place his bets.

“I know this is a sport, and animals are a bit different, but you've still got to use the business ethos,” he says. “I used to have a transport business, but then I would subcontract warehousing, I'd subcontract packaging, I'd subcontract processing. So what I did was I went out and bought a packaging company, I bought a warehousing company. I went and bought that company, and another company, and I joined the circle up.

“If you look at this industry, you can do that same circle: owner, breeder, mares, farms, and the last thing is the stallions.”

He continues, “So we want six stallions here. We've obviously got one or two that we own now that are in Ireland . That's Joe's thing, so obviously we've got to keep that going.

“And the idea here is to cover the range from a 10k stallion to a 50k stallion. I think that's where we need to be heading, and that's lacking a bit [in Britain] compared to Ireland. I'm hugely excited to see how it all develops.”

Also in the development stage, and with some decent early results, is the Bronte Collection, Parkin's return, of sorts, to syndicate ownership. Set up by himself and Foley with a name inspired by Yorkshire's famous literary sisters, the group numbers 15 friends, including the cricketer Jonny Bairstow, and in its second year of existence looks to have a potential Classic prospect in the Acomb S. winner Indian Run (Ire) (Sioux Nation). He steps into Group 1 company next for the Dewhurst S.

“The grey [Clipper Logistics] colours, there's a big plan behind all that,” Parkin explains. “Eventually my daughter will take over. I'm doing this for my family when I'm no longer here and I don't really want other people owning those horses with me. 

“But obviously I know a lot of people from a business career and personal friends, and a number of people were asking me to have a horse with me.”

A selection of homebreds and sale purchases were put together to compile a sizeable team of runners for the Bronte investors, with the team having had 29 individual runners in Britain this season. The original plan had been to sell the horses at the end of their juvenile seasons.

“I buy the horse, or I'll provide the horses from my farm. All they pay for is the training of the racehorses. But, a huge difference to anybody else is that if we have a good horse and we sell it, we split the money. The money doesn't come to me,” he says.

“We trialled it last year really, and it's the best fun I have in racing. Last Sunday, the Moyglare, that was fantastic. It was the greatest day of my life, but there's a pressure behind that. For some reason, I don't know why, with the Bronte, there's no pressure–and the WhatsApp messages, it's hilarious. All these lads have had pieces of horses before, but have all gone away from the game apart from the odd one or two. This has completely rekindled their love of racing.”

Parkin adds, “Because of the success this year, we're going to keep some of the horses in training and not sell. These guys love the sport, they're having that much fun from it.”

With a team of more than 60 of his own horses in training as well, Parkin is inevitably having to spend more time in racing's spotlight. It is clearly not his preferred option, and Foley, a key figure in the politics of Irish racing and breeding, has proved the perfect frontman for the organisation. Parkin, who describes Foley frequently as a “genius”, has his own political links. A member of the Conservative party, he is, through his business endeavours, an advisor to Downing Street. And it should not be overlooked that the Richmond constituency of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Yorkshire is also not a million miles from Parkin's home.

“I've been asked to get involved in the politics of racing and I have some views on racing that are very radical. I think it's doable, but it would need people to be quite radical and the big problem is that racing is run by committees,” he says.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given his fondness for football, Parkin believes that a premiership model, with a much bigger shake-up than is currently being planned, is required to engage more fans and retain the country's historic front-running position in the sport.

He adds, “We've got the best bloodstock, the best bloodlines here and in Ireland. And I say this to Rishi Sunak: this is the golden nugget. We can't lose that golden nugget because the more you chip away at it, the more it'll shrink.”

It is unlikely that we will see him in the running to head any of those committees, however.

“I like to be under the radar and racing gives me a bit of exposure but I can manage that. If I owned a football club, I'd be all over the national press,” he says.

“But there's a lot of similarities. If Leeds United score a goal, obviously you jump up. And depending how big a game it is, is how much you would jump up. But I get more of a buzz out of winning a two-year-old maiden at Ripon than I ever did watching a football match.”

Wisely, he appears content to leave the politics to Foley, a strategy that will hopefully ensure that his love for the game is an enduring one. After 20 years it shows little sign of abating.

“Joe needs praising. He is a genius in this industry,” Parkin reiterates. “He takes this as personally as I do. In fact, probably more. He feels the pressure more than I do because he knows it's my money he's spending, and we've spent millions. But also he knows the buzz I get out of it and how much it means to me and. It does, it means everything.”

 

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Seven Days: Ireland’s Perfect Pick-Me-Up

The Devil's Dyke stretches in pretty much a straight line for more than seven miles through parts of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. The best part, according to this scribbler anyway, is the section roughly a mile and half long which cleaves Newmarket's July Course from the Rowley Mile, with a break in the dyke allowing the two courses to join briefly just beyond the ten-furlong mark on the latter.

A Dutch author, Iman Jacob Wilkens, once claimed that Cambridge's Gog Magog Hills was the true location of the City of Troy, with a suggestion that the imposing dyke may have formed part of its protection, though his theory appears to have been largely ignored. Had he lived to see it, Wilkens may have been tempted to have a flutter on Coolmore's City Of Troy (Justify) as he stormed the July Course, to land the G2 Superlative S. in emphatic fashion alongside the Devil's Dyke. Perhaps, after his defection from Sunday's G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S., City Of Troy will be back to conquer the other side of this historic landmark in the Dewhurst S. At least the Rowley Mile offers a longer pull-up zone for this ebullient colt, though he could still end up in the car park.

From the top of the dyke one has the benefit of seeing the breeding and racing world in microcosm. In the distance are the paddocks of the National Stud, dotted at various times of the year with mares and foals or cavorting yearlings. The stallions are there, too, with Stradivarius (Ire) having brought with him renewed interest and a constant stream of visitors. The spring, summer and autumn seasons see the switching from the Rowley Mile to July Course and back again until we wait, those cold and at times seemingly endless months, from early November until Craven time swings back around. 

It is the habit in this sport to constantly be looking forward to the next race, even when the winner is still blowing from the travails of his latest effort. September and October are pretty special months of action and while they may bring with them various departures as the season draws to a close, the action in the two-year-old sphere is all about next year. 

Following a period in which injury and retirement has claimed a number of the big equine names, Ireland's Champions Festival and France's Arc Trials needed to deliver a bit of a pick-me-up as we embark on the autumn programme, and it is fair to say that both did just that. 

The aforementioned City Of Troy remains ante-post favourite for the 2,000 Guineas, with his stable-mate and National S. winner Henry Longfellow (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) just behind him in the market. Fallen Angel (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}), another to have triumphed on the July Course in the Sweet Solera, now heads the market for the 1,000 Guineas following her gutsy victory in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. 

Dubawi Dominates

In a quiet season for Britain's champion trainer Charlie Appleby, there were no runners for Godolphin in either Ireland or France over the weekend, but Appleby's key sparring partner Dubawi still managed to steal the show on Champions Weekend. Darley's flagship sire was represented by a Group 1 double on Sunday, notably through the Coolmore-bred Henry Longfellow, whose dam is the brilliant Minding (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a star of this weekend herself eight years ago when she took the Moyglare. 

That win was backed up later by Eldar Eldarov (GB), bred at Lanwades by Kirsten Rausing from the same family as her Arc heroine Alpinista (GB), and completing the St Leger double in England and Ireland for Roger Varian and KHK Racing. The Bahraini owners were celebrating their second Group 1 victory of the season after the Prix Morny win of Vandeek (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}).

Dubawi's growing influence was also felt in a first Group 1 winner for his freshman son, Too Darn Hot, the sire of the Karl Burke-trained Fallen Angel, while another son, Night Of Thunder (Ire), provided her runner-up, Vespertilio (Fr). Night Of Thunder is also the sire of Flight Plan (GB), who won the G2 Dullingham Park S. at Leopardstown on Saturday.

Double Parkin

It is likely that we are about to hear plenty more of Dullingham Park Stud, the farm on the outskirts of Newmarket that was bought earlier this year by Steve Parkin and is being managed on his behalf by Ollie Fowlston. 

Parkin has invested plenty in racing in Britain and Ireland over recent years, and that financial commitment appears to be matched by his enthusiasm. British owner-breeders are becoming a scarce commodity so it is heartening to see Parkin's operation, which also includes Branton Court Stud in Yorkshire, being rewarded, in particular with some homebred success.

We have already touched on Fallen Angel and, as a Group 1-winning juvenile, she is the stand-out in this regard, closely rivalled by Dramatised (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}), last year's G2 Queen Mary S. winner who landed the G2 Temple S. in May. Dorothy Lawrence (GB), by Parkin's young Ballyhane Stud-based sire Soldier's Call (GB), has been knocking on the door, too, and she was second last week in the G3 Dick Poole Fillies' S.

Among the horses purchased for Parkin by Ballyhane's Joe Foley are Flight Plan, who gave his connections a huge double and an extra boost by winning their own race, the Dullingham Park S., in a career-best performance. 

This wasn't the first time the team has pulled off this particular feat, either, as Space Traveller (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}) won the same race when it was run under Parkin's better-known banner of the Clipper Logistics Boomerang S.

To complete the good run, the Branton Court Stud graduate Starlust (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}), who was sold to Jim and Fitri Hay last October, won the G3 Sirenia S. at Kempton on Saturday. And, lest the Kempton action be overlooked amid the bigger days of last weekend, it was heartening to see Bay Bridge (GB) (New Bay {GB}) return triumphant to the winner's enclosure after the G3 September S. Hopefully a fruitful autumn campaign beckons for him in his preferred softer conditions. 

Bottom Up

A clever person (Joseph Burke) pointed out over the weekend that to make any sense of this year's 2,000 Guineas one has to view the form of that race upside down. Only the last three home–Auguste Rodin (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Flight Plan and Little Big Bear (Ire) (No Nay Never)–have won a race since running at Newmarket in May, with the best of those of course being the enigmatic Auguste Rodin.

The way he came home in the Derby remains one of the most visually impressive performances of the season. He was then workmanlike when winning the Irish Derby before flopping in the King George, followed by redemption in the Irish Champion S. on Saturday. 

He rivals stable-mate Paddington (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) as the leading three-year-old colt of the season, with Chaldean (GB) (Frankel {GB}) having failed, so far, to build on his 2,000 Guineas success. 

Among the fillies, Tahiyra (Ire) is continuing to ensure that her sire Siyouni has two of the best three-year-olds of the season, if not the two best. The Aga Khan's half-sister to fellow Group 1 winner Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal) has only been bettered once when the subsequently absent Mawj (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) prevailed by half a length in the 1,000 Guineas, and Tahiyra has been imperious in her three Group 1 victories since that seasonal debut.

A cap should also be doffed to Warm Heart (Ire), who is giving her sire Galileo (Ire) something of a last hurrah at the top table. She has barely put a foot wrong all season apart from appearing not to enjoy the soft conditions at the Curragh for the Irish Oaks, in which she was fifth. This was the only time she was asked to contest a Classic, but prior to that she had been the smart winner of the G2 Ribblesdale S. at Royal Ascot and has subsequently annexed the G1 Yorkshire Oaks and G1 Prix Vermeille. Those two latest successes have come in the hands of James Doyle, who has made the most of his rare Coolmore call-ups.

Warm Heart is bred on similar lines to the ill-fated Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck (Ire). Both are by Galileo out of mares by a son of Danehill. In Warm Heart's case, that is Fastnet Rock (Aus), who has often blended well with Galileo on the reverse of this cross. They are both also out of fast Australian-bred mares. Warm Heart's dam Sea Siren (Aus) won three Group 1 races in Australia for John O'Shea over six and seven furlongs before heading north to join Ballydoyle and adding the Listed Belgrave S. to her record along with a pair of Group 3 placings.

Top Sprints Delivering Diversity

The top-class sprint division continues to provide some delightful results this season, giving an airing to some usually lesser-heralded sires and deserved success for some smaller stables.

To the twin Group 1 triumphs in June and July for Julie Camacho's Shaquille (GB) (Charm Spirit {Ire}), we can add the victory in the Nunthorpe of the Adam West-trained Live In The Dream (Ire), a son of Prince Of Lir (Ire), while last weekend saw Group 1 victories for Regional (GB) (Territories {Ire}) in the Haydock Sprint Cup and Moss Tucker (Ire) (Excelebration {Ire}) in the Flying Five.

Regional became the first Group 1 winner for his trainer Ed Bethell, who, with agent Tom Biggs, managed to pick him up at the July Sale two years ago for just 3,5000gns. The five-year-old also provided another major group success in Britain for the Italian breeding industry this season. Francesca Franchini of Scuderia La Tesa has already been successful with Giavellotto (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), who defeated Eldar Eldarov in the G2 Yorkshire Cup, and Isabella Bezzera of Razza del Sole bred Regional from the Listed winner Favulusa (GB) (Dansili {GB}).

Moss Tucker, bred by Donal Spring, proved yet again what Ken Condon is capable of when he gets a good one in his stable, and the five-year-old follows Barney Roy (GB) in becoming a Group 1 winner for Excelebration who was last listed as standing at the Moroccan National Stud.

Though on the face of it, with Moss Tucker's dam Rare Symphony (Ire) being by the July Cup winner Pastoral Pursuits (GB), it is perhaps no surprise that she has produced a good sprinter, the mare herself rather defied her speedier sireline and won twice over hurdles, in Britain then Ireland. Rare Symphony's stamina was perhaps gathered from her dam Rubileo (GB), an unremarkable member of Galileo's first crop on the track, who went on to produce two useful horses by Sir Percy (GB) in the Swedish Derby winner Bomar (Ire) and Pantsonfire (Ire), whose Grade III victory at Santa Anita came over 1m4f.

Hot Take

Though most of the best two-year-old races are still to come, Darley looks to have this year's freshman sires' title sewn up, with Blue Point (Ire) way out in front numerically on 32 winners, and Too Darn Hot being the only stallion in the group to have been represented by three group winners, including a Group 1 winner. 

There was a breakthrough for Yeomanstown Stud's Invincible Army (Ire) over the weekend, when Kitty Rose (GB) became his first black-type winner in the Ingabelle Stakes. Like Flight Plan, who won the Group 2 on the same day, her fourth dam was John Greetham's Much Too Risky (GB) (Machiavellian).

The half-sister to two excellent stayers in Sydney Cup winner Marooned (GB) and Irish St Leger winner Arctic Owl (GB), Much Too Risky produced the Yorkshire Oaks runner-up and Musidora winner Short Skirt (GB) as well as Group 2 winners Little Rock (GB) and Whitewater Affair (GB). The latter went on to have particular success as a broodmare in Japan as the dam of Group 1 winners Victoire Pisa (Jpn) and Asakusa Den'en (GB).

When it comes to stallion tables, it is always wise to pay close attention to the percentage of winners to runners. In this regard, Blue Point and his nearest pursuer, Soldier's Call, measure up well on 40% and 35% respectively. The nine winners for Phoenix Of Spain (Ire) have come from just 22 runners to put him on 41%, while Study Of Man (Ire), who had two new winners this week, is now on five from 14 runners (36%). 

In France, Haras d'Etreham's City Light (Fr) has now been represented by 10 winners from his 26 runners (38%).

Acclaim for Pyledriver

It is the time of year when plenty of rumours abound as to which colts have been snapped up for stallion duties. There is at least one announcement imminent this week, and we already know that Native Trail (GB) is off to Kildangan Stud, Little Big Bear (Ire) to Coolmore, and Bouttemont (Fr) is joining his sire Acclamation (GB) at Rathbarry Stud. 

There is one horse from the much-vaunted Acclamation line that it would be particularly gratifying to see granted a place at a good Flat stud, and that is Pyledriver (GB). Just as it is easy to forget that the high-flying sprinter Havana Grey (GB) has those noted middle-distance influences of Teofilo (GB) and Galileo as his grandsire and great-grandsire, so it is to overlook that Pyledriver is by Acclamation's son Harbour Watch (Ire). A six-furlong Group 2 winner whose racing and stud career were both cut short, the late Harbour Watch pops up in the pedigrees of good horses with some frequency.

The neat and good-looking Pyledriver, who, on 122, is the second-highest rated of any colt from this sireline to retire to stud, also has some nice influences in the bottom half of his pedigree. Furthermore, he proved over five seasons that he has that vital durability to accompany the class that drove him to win a King George and a Coronation Cup. He wasn't a late developer, either, as he won on debut in the July of his juvenile season before winning the Listed Ascendant S. two months later.

As already pointed out in this column, there is as much delight to be taken from the big sprints as from the Classics, and stallions can sometimes buck expectations. But the programme in any serious racing nation must remain balanced.

This is no new concern, but it remains troubling that it is becoming harder still for horses of Pyledriver's ilk to be given a proper chance at stud. It would be a crying shame if he is overlooked in the blinkered rush towards stallions who offer little prospect of siring a horse who will see out the Guineas trip, never mind a Derby or an Arc winner. When breeding, it is wise to remember where the greater prestige and rewards remain.

 

 

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