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New Look For Buyanom In Its Third Year

As it heads into his third year of existence, the stallion nomination trading website Buyanom.com has a new look, and a few new perks for its users. Ahead of the 2022 breeding season, the Buyanom website has been redone, and now includes the capability for its users to sign contracts online. “It's very user- friendly and very quick,” said Luke Lillingston, who operates Buyanom alongside fellow respected horseman Ted Voute. “We're very pleased with the way the website is working.”

Another new aspect of the site designed to improve the experience for the seller is a function that allows them to set a price threshold, below which offers made will not be shown. “That's a new aspect of the site that's designed very specifically to help sellers,” Lillingston explained.

Buyanom has also removed the listing fee for sellers; the only cost to sell a nomination on the platform is a £150 fee that is charged when a contract is signed. If the breeding does not result in a live foal, the seller gets their fee back. There are no fees for buyers.

“What we're trying to achieve is for more people to get on the site–to look, to list, to make offers and to buy nominations,” Lillingston said. “We want to make it as easy as we can for everybody.”

There are currently 32 individual sires from England, Ireland and France with nominations available on Buyanom.com, including proven sires like Acclamation (GB), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Kodiac (GB), Le Havre (Ire), Profitable (Ire) and Territories (Ire), and in the region of 50 total nominations available.

“Even in the last week, we've had some very significant breeders buying, selling and making offers on nominations,” Lillingston said. “Once people get on the site and they use it they're saying, 'wow, I can't believe it's that easy to use.' Once you get into it and have confidence in the system it becomes very easy. We're just trying to encourage more people to use it.”

Lillingston stressed that Charlie Dee, his assistant at Lillingston Bloodstock, is available to help anyone with questions about using Buyanom. He said he thinks platforms like Buyanom are not only the way of the future, but a way to source value.

“It's the way most of us conduct business in our daily lives, buying things online, and we believe nominations should be no different,” Lillingston said. “Equally, for anyone looking for value–anyone who has listed a nomination is obviously a seller, so they're always keen to receive offers.”

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Applications Open For Riding A Dream Academy Residential Week

Applications are now open for the second Residential Week of the Riding A Dream Academy. Aimed at supporting talented young riders aged 14-18 from under-represented communities, diverse backgrounds and those that ride at urban equestrian centres, the Academy is funded by the Racing Foundation. It was set up after Khadijah Mellah's win in the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood when she became the first British Muslim woman to win a UK horserace. The Residential Week is an introduction to British horse racing and will be held at the British Racing School (BRS) from May 30-June 3. To apply, please visit the Riding A Dream Academy website.

ITV presenter Oli Bell, who co-founded the Academy alongside Great British Racing's Naomi Lawson said, “At the Academy we are passionate about providing opportunities for young people from diverse backgrounds, who have learnt to ride at an urban equestrian centre or city farm so that we can help to make racing more diverse and inclusive. We'd love to uncover more stars of the future but more than that, this is about giving opportunities to people who might not otherwise have had it and showing what a wonderful sport racing is.”

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Norelands Gets Back Into Historic Family With Gaelic Tales

When the McCalmont family's Norelands Stud purchased the 5-year-old mare Gaelic Tales (Giant's Causeway) for $120,000 through BBA Ireland last week at Keeneland January, it was getting back into a Group 1 family that it had played a hand in developing.

Harry McCalmont currently runs Norelands, which is adjacent to Ballylinch Stud and was established in 1912 largely as a base for mares visiting Ballylinch's famed sire The Tetrarch. Harry McCalmont's father Major Victor McCalmont purchased Gaelic Tales's seventh dam, Agars Plough (Ire) (Combat {GB}), as a foal in 1952.

“Agars Plough won the Irish Oaks about a week after I was born, so a very long time ago in 1955,” McCalmont said. “One of her daughters was Mesopotamia (Ire) (Zarathustra {GB}), who was champion 2-year-old filly in England and Ireland and won the Chesham by about 12 lengths. She is the sixth dam of Gaelic Tales.”

Mesopotamia would go on to be a highly influential producer, and among her descendants foaled at Norelands was Danish (Ire), a great-granddaughter of Mesopotamia. Danish was retained by the McCalmont family and broke her maiden and was listed-placed at Leopardstown at two for trainer Michael Kauntze shortly after Victor McCalmont's death in 1993. Danish joined John Hammond in France for a 4-year-old campaign in which she won at listed level and was third in the G3 Prix de la Nonette before shipping to the U.S. to take the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Keeneland. Danish was bought by Sheikh Mohammed for $1.55-million at Keeneland November in 1996 in foal to Gone West.

The best horse produced by Danish for Sheikh Mohammed was the Listed Flame Of Tara S. third Blixen (Gone West), who would later become the dam of Godolphin's G1 Dubai World Cup winner African Story (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). Blixen also foaled the winning Storybook (UAE), whose sire Halling is, incidentally, a great-great grandson of Mesopotamia. By the time Storybook retired to the paddocks she had been sold to War Front's owner Joe Allen. Storybook is the dam of three stakes horses as well as Gaelic Tales, who was sold to Phoenix Thoroughbreds for $100,000 at Keeneland September in 2018. Gaelic Tales failed to find the winner's enclosure in 10 starts, but was placed six times. She was retired in early March of 2021 and covered by Coolmore's Classic-winning first-season sire Tiz The Law (Constitution).

In the meantime, the McCalmont family had been on a hunt to restore Mesopotamia's line to their paddocks. They had even succeeded once, finding a mare at Arqana a few years ago, but she died in a paddock accident shortly after coming home.

“My father had had a lot of the family,” McCalmont said. “After he died, we had a few from the family and for one reason or another we had lost them-they'd died off or been sold. I'd been trying to buy back into that family for several years and hadn't really been able to.”

Hope was sparked again when McCalmont's son Hamish was flipping through the Keeneland January catalogue and landed on Gaelic Tales.

“Neither of us were at Keeneland, so I got Michael Donohoe of BBA Ireland to look at her,” McCalmont said. “He really liked her, said she was a beautiful mare, so we bought her. So let's hope it all works out for the best.”

McCalmont said Gaelic Tales will likely foal in Kentucky and be bred back there before returning to Ireland.

“She's in foal to Tiz The Law, who really probably is an out-and-out American sire,” he said. “So we'll probably foal her down in Kentucky and then cover her with something that will fit better into the European plan, because it's a very European family. We'll probably then bring her back to Ireland at the end of this year when she's back in foal.”

As she embarks on her broodmare career, Gaelic Tales certainly has excellent precedent in her pedigree. The legacy of the Norelands-bred Mesopotamia is still growing today, and features Group 1 winners and champions in England, Ireland, France, New Zealand and the U.S., including 1973 Irish champion 2-year-old filly Welsh Garden (Ire); 1990 G1 Middle Park S. winner Balla Cove (Ire); 1995 G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and G1 Sprint Cup winner Cherokee Rose (Ire); the aforementioned Juddmonte International and Coral-Eclipse winner Halling and Dubai World Cup winner African Story; G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Just The Judge; 2020 G1 2000 Guineas winner Kameko, and many more.

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Mohaather Sires First Reported Foal

G1 Sussex S. hero Mohaather (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) welcomed his first reported foal at Brook Stud in Newmarket this past weekend.
The bay filly is out of the Shadwell-bred Radhaadh (Ire) (Nayef), who won a Chelmsford maiden by nine lengths for Sir Michael Stoute and is a half-sister to G1 Lockinge S. hero Mustashry (GB) (Tamayuz {GB}).
“I've very happy with her,” said Brook Stud's Dwayne Woods. “She's exactly what we were hoping for. She has great depth, is a good size and has a fantastic wide hip. She's very strong with plenty of bone, and she's also blessed with a gorgeous, quality head with fabulous markings.”
A group winner at two, three and four, Mohaather covered 146 mares in his first book and stands at Nunnery Stud for £15,000 this season.

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