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Without Parole Retired To Newsells Park Stud

G1 St James’s Palace S. winner Without Parole (GB) (Frankel {GB}-Without You Babe, by Lemon Drop Kid) has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2021 at Newsells Park Stud.

Campaigned as a homebred by John and Tanya Gunther, Without Parole won his lone start at two by six lengths for John Gosden and went unbeaten through his first three starts at three, winning Sandown’s Listed Heron S. before taking the St James’s Palace in the second-fastest mile ever run at Ascot and with Group 1 winners Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) and U S Navy Flag (War Front) in his wake.

Without Parole made two starts at four before joining trainer Chad Brown in the U.S. He was third in last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Mile on his American debut and picked up two more Grade I placings over the past year, including a third in the Shadwell Turf Mile on Oct. 3.

Without Parole is a half-brother to GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz (Speightstown), who has four first-crop winners in the U.S. from 21 foals. Their dam, Without You Babe, is a half-sister to GI Travers S. and GI Cigar Mile winner Stay Thirsty (Bernardini) and she has also produced the listed-winning She’s Got You (GB) (Kingman {GB}).

“Without Parole has given me the most memorable and exciting day of my life with his victory in the St James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot,” said John Gunther. “It was my biggest dream come true and I continue to be overwhelmed by the heart and perseverance he has shown with his racing pursuits in America. He has raced in 12 consecutive Grade Is and faced myriad traffic obstructions, at times unsuitable turf conditions and he just never gives up, as demonstrated again by his third-place finish in the prestigious Shadwell Turf Mile. I love this horse and can’t wait to breed to him.”

Newsells Park Stud General Manager Julian Dollar added, “We’re delighted to be standing Without Parole at Newsells Park. It’s no secret that we, like virtually every other global stallion operation, chased this horse hard after his impressive win at Royal Ascot and it’s fitting he should now retire to the stud where he was born and raised. Without Parole is a beautiful horse with an athletic physique and superb conformation. As his race record states, he’s an out-and-out miler who possesses a great turn of foot. Importantly, he has a potent, proven sire’s pedigree, which should offer breeders plenty of options. He’ll certainly be heavily supported by Newsells Park and of course his Eclipse award-winning breeders, John and Tanya Gunther.”

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Son Of Izzi Top Starts At Wolverhampton

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Today’s Observations features the son of a multiple Group 1 winner.

6.00 Wolverhampton, Novice, £5,300, 2yo, 8f 142y (AWT)
ZAGATO (GB) (Frankel {GB}) makes a low-key introduction after the Champions Day action has played out further South, but is a notable John Gosden newcomer as a son of the stable’s G1 Pretty Polly S. heroine Izzi Top (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) who was also awarded the G1 Prix Jean Romanet. Like Telecaster (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), the Meon Valley-bred April-foaled bay who is a half to two black-type performers and the fellow Gosden-trained Wokingham H. runner-up Dreamfield (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) sports the colours of Castle Down Racing having been unsold at 725,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale. He meets Godolphin’s similarly-unraced Folk Magic (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), the 1.1-million gns Book 1 graduate from the family of the multiple Group 1 heroine Soviet Song (Ire) (Marju {Ire}) who represents Charlie Appleby.

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Enable: One For The Ages

On most mornings there are more than 2,000 horses being exercised on Newmarket Heath, Britain’s epicentre of the Thoroughbred industry.

Plenty of them will end up as minor winners and a decent number of stakes winners will progress from the blustery East Anglian acres of turf to sun-drenched winner’s enclosures across England and beyond. Every now and then a champion will emerge.

It is perhaps a term used too liberally. Each year there’s a champion 2-year-old, champion 3-year-old, champion stayer, champion sprinter. To call Enable (GB) a champion doesn’t really begin to do her justice.

Just months after Frankel (GB) strode up Warren Hill for the final time in October 2012, Juddmonte sent Concentric (GB) (Sadler’s Wells) on a 30-minute journey from Newmarket to Royston to be covered by his old rival Nathaniel (Ire). It would have been almost too indulgent to imagine that Newmarket could become home to another Thoroughbred of such alluring presence so soon after Frankel’s retirement, let alone one emerging from the same stud. But, by the summer of 2017, the foal resulting from that mating had started to write her own exciting chapter in the history of Juddmonte Farms.

Thunder and lightning announced Enable on the world stage when she stormed to the first of her 11 Group/Grade 1 victories as the rain lashed down on Epsom. To the Oaks, she added the Irish and Yorkshire versions and, in a stellar 3-year-old season, won her first of three King Georges and first of two Arcs. For many owner-breeders that would have been more than enough to ensure that she was hastened to stud to start work on the next generation.

Happily, for Enable’s growing legion of fans, this temptation was resisted for three years running. For keeping his great mare in training to the age of six, all who love racing owe Prince Khalid a huge debt of gratitude.

Enable more than upheld her side of the bargain. With each passing year she grew more statuesque, clearly thriving on her routine of emerging from John Gosden’s Clarehaven stable at the end of Newmarket’s Bury Road, either crossing the road for easy cantering days on Warren Hill, or heading away from town for more testing work mornings on the Al Bahathri or the Limekilns.

It is too easy to anthropomorphise horses but in watching Enable make her casual saunters to and from the gallops of a morning, a fanciful mind could interpret the air of regal serenity as her knowing that she was simply better than every other horse she passed. In truth, it is more that physical exertion came much more easily to her than to most and, generally, a racehorse who finds work easy is one who is at ease with life.

As Enable’s reputation grew, so must the pressure have increased on those closest to her. With John Gosden as her trainer the mare had the perfect statesmanlike spokesman to deliver tantalising updates on her training along with insights to her character. “She’ll tell me,” he said often. A wise man taking his lead from a powerful female.

Enable’s competitive froideur was very much in contrast to that of the jockey who rode her in all bar her first two races. But every good double act needs a flamboyant showman and there is no-one better to assume that role than Frankie Dettori.

The one sad footnote to an extraordinary story is that its final act came in the year of a global pandemic. Coronavirus has taken a terrible toll on the world but within our own small racing hub, it was a cruel twist indeed that Enable’s final four runs took place in front of a handful of raceday officials, owners and trainers. If ever there was a horse who deserved to bow out—win or lose—with the roar of an adoring crowd ringing in her enormous ears it was Enable.

Over the last few weeks of sales, a growing number of yearlings have been signed up to join Clarehaven, not to mention the blue-blooded homebreds who will be added to Gosden’s books in the months to come. Boxes will be filled and new champions will emerge, but it is nigh on impossible to replace a horse for the ages.

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Noble Mission, Full-Brother To Frankel, Sold To Stand In Japan

Noble Mission, a full-brother to the great Frankel and sire of Grade 1 winner Code of Honor, has been sold to stand in Japan, per a statement from the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association.

The release states that the 11-year-old son of Galileo will ship to Japan in late November, and he will take up residence at Shizunai Stallion Station in December, following import quarantine.

Noble Mission stood his first six seasons at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., where he was advertised in 2020 for a fee of $20,000. He is best known as the sire of Code of Honor, the winner of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup, and runner-up in the 2019 Kentucky Derby hailing from his sire's first crop.

Other notable runners among Noble Mission's 73 winners include Spanish Mission, a Group 2 winner in England, and stakes winners Life Mission and Laafy.

A British homebred for the Juddmonte Farms operation, Noble Mission is out of the Group 3-placed stakes-winning Danehill mare Kind, making him a full-brother to the undefeated European champion Frankel, and a half to Group 3 winner Bullet Train and stakes winner Joyeuse.

Noble Mission won nine of 21 starts for earnings of $2,202,887, including the Group 3 Gordon Stakes as a 3-year-old, and the Tapster Stakes at four. He took his game to another level at five, earning Europe's Cartier champion older horse honors in 2014 on a campaign that included victories in the G1 Champion Stakes in England, the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in France, and the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup in Ireland. He also finished second in the German G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis – Bayerisches Zuchtrennen to add even more international flavor.

The Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association is a regular buyer of U.S. stallions and stallion prospects, with a roster of expats that currently includes Animal Kingdom, Declaration of War, Creator, Eskendereya, Cape Blanco, Aldebaran, David Junior, Came Home, and Squirtle Squirt.

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