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In The Hot Seat: Clare Manning

The latest industry member to share their best moments from 2023 and likely prospects for this year is Boherguy Stud's Clare Manning.

 

Proudest moment of 2023?

Frazil (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), who Dad [Kevin] and I bought as a foal, winning his maiden at Naas in my own colours

 

What is your biggest ambition for the new year?

Make money and sell winners.

 

Give us one horse to follow and why?

A two-year-old Blue Point (Ire) colt out of Bandiuc Eile (Ire). He always had a great attitude throughout his prep and looked like the real deal.

 

And a young person in the industry to keep an eye on…

Conor Wixted–he'll go places.

 

Who do you think will be champion first-season sire this year?

Earthlight (Ire), or at least I hope so!

 

And the best value stallion in Europe?

Teofilo (Ire), standing at Kildangan Stud for €30,000. I'm definitely biased but he's produced a Group 1 winner in his first 11 crops, not to mention the impact he's having as a broodmare sire.

 

What's the one horse you wish you'd bought in 2023?

A Too Darn Hot (GB) colt from New England at Tatts Foals that Guy O'Callaghan bought for 185,000gns.

 

Biggest regret?

Not winning the lotto and being able to buy more foals.

 

Biggest influence on your career?

Dad and Granda [Jim Bolger]–they haven't steered me wrong, yet!

 

If you could sit down for dinner with three people (dead or alive) who would they be and why?

Joe Lyng, Mark O Sullivan and Eleanor Dunne. The lads always make for an interesting and entertaining dinner while Eleanor will guarantee it's in done in style.

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Longines World Racing Awards Will Be Live Streamed Next Week

The 2023 Longines World Racing Awards will be live streamed beginning at 1:10 p.m. GMT/8:10 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

The ceremony, organised by Longines and the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), will be held at The Savoy in London. The world's highest-rated horse in the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR) and the Longines World's Best Horse Race of the 2023 will be honoured during the programme.

This is the 11th edition of the ceremony honouring the Longines WBR and the ninth edition paying tribute to the Longines World's Best Horse Race. Connections of the winners will be presented with a watch and a replica of a trophy of a proud horse head. Also, the Top 100 Group/Grade 1 races will be released from the annual list maintained by the IFHA. For more information on the awards, please visit the IFHA website.

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Plenty Of Diversity In Arqana February Catalogue

The catalogue for the Arqana February Mixed Sale on February 13-14 was released by the sale company on Friday. Featuring 363 horses comprised of horses-in-training on the Flat and over jumps, broodmares, maidens, 2-year-olds and yearlings, with eight wildcards still to be announced, sessions will begin at 11 a.m. daily.

The Arqana February Sale, which last year sold the G2 Prix du Petite Couvert winner and G1 Prix de l'Abbaye-placed Air De Valse (Fr) (Mesnil des Aigles {Fr}) as a broodmare prospect, this year offers a trio of fillies-in-training who achieved black type in 2023, including Haras de la Beauvoisiniere's Pepete (Fr) (Attendu {Fr}) (lot 1), listed-placed as a 2-year-old and from the family of the multiple Group 1 winner Peintre Celebre (Nureyev); Princess Child (Fr) (Dariyan {Fr}) (lot 6), last seen filling the runner-up spot in a listed race at Saint-Cloud in November and out of a half-sister to the G3 Prix la Force winner Chilean (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}); and Vasda (Ire) (Shalaa {Ire}) (lot 10), listed-placed at Milan in September and a half-sister to four black-type winners, including G3 Prix d'Aumale winner Rocques (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}) and listed winner Mea Domina (Fr) (Pivotal {GB}).

The Wertheimer et Frere homebred Adeliade (Ire) (Australia {GB}) (lot 79), a winner at two and out of a half-sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}), is another name to note among the fillies-in-training, while the broodmares in foal include the listed winner Rolleville (Fr) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) (lot 163), offered carrying her first foal by Sioux Nation, and the Group 3-placed Lady Paname (Fr) (Soldier of Fortune {Ire}) (lot 251) in foal to Masked Marvel (GB), both offered from Haras de Maulepaire.

Several regally-bred individuals also feature among the fillies out of training and should attract plenty of interest from breeders as potential broodmare prospects. They are headed by two unraced daughters of Group 1 winners in Chesska (GB) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) (lot 160), out of Wertheimer et Frere's G1 Prix Saint-Alary heroine Queen's Jewel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), and the Aga Khan Studs' Manshina (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) (lot 338), a daughter of the three-time Group 1 winner Mandesha (Fr) (Desert Style {Ire}).

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Star Guitar Filly Gets The Gold At Meydan En Route To ‘TDN Rising Star’ Honours

Already a 2 1/2-length winner in her unveiling over this Meydan strip going 1400 metres on Dec. 22, Manama Gold (Star Guitar–Charged Cotton, by Dehere) doubled her tally with an imperious 9 1/4-length victory in the Cocoa Beach S. Presented By Jebel Ali Port over a mile there on Friday and became the latest 'TDN Rising Star'.

The Victorious runner, trained by Fawzi Nass, raced in between rivals on the front end from the chute and dropped back for a breather rounding the bend as fellow front-runner Lahfaty (Mitole) asserted while pressed by Frost At Dawn (Frosted). Adrie de Vries urged his mount to quicken at the head of the straight and she duly obliged with a strong turn of foot, as they shifted out into the centre of the track to challenge in the lane. The chestnut forged past the leading duo and strode clear to win with authority. Three-and-a-half lengths separated the second, Lahfaty, and third, Kibo Misaki (Girvin).

“I got a little bit of pressure on the turn; it got a little bit tight,” said de Vries. “But once Jim's horse [Crowley, Frost At Dawn] came past me then it was just a matter of straightening up and she did the job pretty easy.

“I didn't want to be too hard on her, but I wanted to teach her something. Once she hits the front she doesn't do much–she's just having a look around. I guess that's a good thing.”

Part of the Taylor Made consignment at the 2022 Keeneland September Sale, the chestnut caught the eye of Lane Richardson, who shelled out $100,000 on behalf of Kevin Knuckley. Richardson Bloodstock re-offered Manama Gold at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training in March of 2023 after she breezed a furlong in :10 1/5. Her value doubled to $200,000, when she was marked as sold to Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock.

Already a half-sister to the stakes-placed Sethamee Street (Street Sense) and a full-sister to multiple stakes winner Ova Charged (Star Guitar), who has earned her black-type accolades in Lousiana where their sire stands, Manama Gold has a half-sister by Not This Time born last year. Her dam was barren to the cover of Star Guitar for this spring.

4th-Meydan, AED300,000, Cond., 1-19, 3yo, f, 1600m, 1:38.40, ft.
MANAMA GOLD f, 3, Star Guitar
                1st Dam: Charged Cotton (SW-US, $162,741),
                                by Dehere
                2nd Dam: Lightning Lydia, by Broad Brush
                3rd Dam: Bye The Bye, by Balzac
($100,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo '23 OBSSPR). Lifetime record: 2-2-0-0, AED306,000. Click for the ERA chart and video. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Victorious. B-Brittlyn, Inc. (LA). T-Fawzi Nass.

 

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