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E2SE Students Arrive at The National Stud

Students from the UK and Ireland arrived at The National Stud this week to begin the 2020 TBA Entry to Stud Employment Programme, The National Stud announced on Monday. The 20 students engage in practical work-based training alongside lectures and industry visits for the first nine weeks. Those students that successfully completed phase one of the programme will be invited to interview for a work placement at a UK stud farm where they will complete their Level 2 Diploma in Work Based Racehorse Care (Breeding Option). The course is fully funded by the TBA and the Racing Foundation and is now in its second year.

“This course attracts students from a really diverse range of ages and backgrounds,” said The National Stud Director Tim Lane. “Graduates from 2019 and previous pilot years are working at studs across the UK and we have had a strong level of applications again this year. As with all activity this year we have put in place guidelines and restrictions to safeguard against COVID-19 and we will be monitoring these in line with guidance from government over the coming weeks.”

The 2020 students are as follows: Debbie Brodie, Dylan Goulding, Callum Bartram-Bell, Harry Hollingworth, Callan Graham, Leon Rossiter, Kenny Mace, Sam Malone, Cara Bradbury, Kate Stewart-Hilliar, Zoe Moles, Charlotte Cook, Tom Richardson, Jodie McLoughlin, Daniel Kent, Jodie Lever, Freya Marshall, Evelyn Holmes, Kinga Jantovics and Libby Flood.

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English King Wildcard for Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale

English King (Fr) (Camelot {GB}), a listed winner and rated 118 by Timeform, has been entered in the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale as a wildcard. Favoured in the G1 Investec Derby, the Bjorn Nielsen runner was fifth that day, and added a fourth in the G3 Gordon S. in July. Bred by Ecurie des Monceaux et al, English King was most recently sixth in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp on Sept. 13. Consigned by Ed Walker Racing, he sells as lot 1153A.

“I genuinely believe English King is the best horse I have ever trained and I will be very sorry to see him sold,” said Walker. “He is an outstanding prospect for the future having only raced six times and has all the credentials to attract potential buyers from throughout the world. He is a horse who loves fast ground and like all top-class horses has the ability to quicken off a fast pace as demonstrated in the Derby where he had the fastest final three furlongs of all.”

Out of the winning Platonic (GB) (Zafonic), the €210,000 Arqana October yearling is a half-brother to GSW Pacifique (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and to French Listed winner Prudenzia (Ire) (Dansili {GB}). The latter is the dam of Group 1 winner Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Irish highweight and G1 Irish Oaks heroine Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). The sale begins at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 26 and lasts until Oct. 29.

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Mehmas Ties Iffraaj at 38 First-Crop 2yo Winners

Tally-Ho Stud resident Mehmas (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}-Lucina {GB}, by Machiavellian) equaled Iffraaj (GB) (Zafonic)’s number of first-crop 2-year-old winners on Sunday, with Power Under Me (Ire) bringing up his 38th individual winner. The gelding, bred by Barbel Reiss and a €28,000 Goffs November weanling, won on debut over six furlongs at Naas. Always prominently placed, the Vincent Gaul colourbearer asserted late to win by 2 1/4 lengths over Coulthard (Ire) (Coulsty {Ire}).

Of Mehmas’s 146 2-year-olds, 94 (64%) have started, and his winners to runners percentage stands at 26%. Clustered among his winning progeny are four black-type winners-G1 Middle Park S. and G2 Richmond S. hero Supremacy (Ire), G2 Gimcrack S. winner and Middle Park third Minzaal (Ire), Listed Julia Graves Roses S. victor Acklam Express (Ire) and Listed Rose Bowl S. and G3 Cornwallis S. third Method (Ire). Mehmas stood for €7,500 at Tally-Ho this season.

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What’s in a Name: Khartoum

There is a lot of African geography in the background of 2-year-old Khartoum (Pioneerof the Nile-Up (Ire), by Galileo {Ire}). Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, is where the Blue Nile (from Lake Tana in Ethiopia) and the White Nile (from Lake Victoria) meet and unite, forming a greater river.

“From there [Khartoum], the Nile continues to flow north towards Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea,” states Wikipedia. The Nile is maybe the longest river in the world (the Amazon has a similar claim) and has always been very important to the agricultures of Sudan and Egypt.

So the name of this brilliant young winner is ingeniously linked to the one of his sire (also noteworthy for his creative spacing, or lack of it). The Egyptian theme was already very much present in the family with another son of mother Up, older brother and group competitor Monarch of Egypt (), who is by-yes, you guessed right-American Pharoah.

1st-Curragh, €12,000, Mdn, 10-11, 2yo, 7fT, 1:31.20, sf. KHARTOUM (c, 2, Pioneerof the Nile–Up {Ire} {MGSW-Ire & G1SP-Fr, $379,468}, by Galileo {Ire}) Sales history: $1,000,000 Ylg ’19 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $10,165.
O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Peter M Brant; B-Ran Jan Racing Inc (KY); T-Aidan O’Brien.

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