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“Everyone Is Welcome,” – Opportunity Knocks On La Route Des Etalons

Is it just me or should France be known as the bloodstock land of opportunity? This is the country that saw Wootton Bassett (GB) and Walk In The Park (Ire) pull themselves up by the bootstraps after entering the stud book at relatively modest sums. There are few serious racing nations that provide as much of a chance for a stallion to flourish than France does.
Take Kauto Star (Fr), the greatest staying chaser of the modern era, as an example. He hailed from the largely unheralded Village Star (Fr) but the cream was still provided with the right chance to rise to the top here.

A similar story was shared on one of the final stops of this year's Route des Etalons at Haras de Montaigu as the stud's Mathieu Leffray, along with his brother and father, sourced a mare by the name of Idaho Falls (Fr) for the miserly sum of €500 from the French equivalent of Done Deal.


What has that got to do with anything, you might ask? Because it was Idaho Falls who went on to produce multiple Grade 1-winning chaser Allaho (Fr), the highest-rated son of Haras de Montaigu's No Risk At All (Fr), who played a starring role on the Route des Etalons.

No Risk At All has proven his versatility as a jumps sire given he is also responsible for Champion Hurdle-winning mare Epatante (Fr) and, as he stood proud in the French sunshine, another high-class prospect, Allegorie De Vassy (Fr), hardened her reputation for Cheltenham Festival honours when winning by a street at Thurles.

Opportunity does not just knock for the National Hunt breeder alone at Haras de Montaigu, either, with G1 Prix Morny and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Dabirsim (Fr) new to the roster, as Emma Berry highlighted in her preview of La Route.

Along with the opportunities available to Flat an National Hunt breeders in France, another thing that quickly became apparent whilst touring through Normandie was how interconnected the breeding sector is, with every stud playing host to a foreign-registered vehicle and many of the same faces who toured the Irish Stallion Trail a week previously spotted in attendance.

One man in particular who reported an increased level of international traffic, largely down to young sires Persian King and Hello Youmzain, was Nicolas de Chambure of Haras d'Etreham. A strapping son of Kingman (GB), the French 2,000 Guineas winner Persian King is quite the contrast to the dual Group 1-winning sprinter Hello Youmzain (Fr), but both stallions, whose foals sold well in 2022, compliment each other at stud.

“We have great expectations for them,” de Chambure said. “We put in plenty of work in getting Persian King and Hello Youmzain purchased and then by putting the syndicate together to support them.

“When the foals arrived, it was the first step towards seeing a little bit more of them, and obviously the breeders had high expectations and they've met those expectations so we are very happy.
“Persian King and Hello Youmzain are very different horses. That is also why we took the risk to retire two horses in the same year because they have very different profiles and are from different sire lines.

“The foals also looked different and were what you'd expect from their stallions. We will keep a good eye on them throughout the spring and right up to the yearling sales. That's going to be very important for them and then hopefully they will be spread out among good trainers around Europe. We will be supporting them as well.”

De Chambure added, “The fact that British and Irish breeders can see that these good French sires have appeal to the main pinhookers and trainers in the industry, I think that will give them the confidence to increase their trust in these French stallions on the whole. It has been very positive.”

Etreham also has the first 2-year-olds by City Light (Fr), a smart miler by Siyouni (Fr), to look forward to in 2023 while, interestingly, de Chambure revealed that breeders are now adopting a different approach to the mares they are sending to Almanzor (Fr).

He explained, “City Light has over 90 2-year-olds to run this season and, being a son of Siyouni, there is a bit of a buzz about him. The first reports are positive. His 2-year-olds are quite racey and, by the end of the year, we can expect them to be showing what they can do because they should be 2-year-olds.

“Almanzor has four or five exciting horses who have just turned three. He has an important year ahead of him but I think he has the numbers coming and breeders have adapted in the mares that they have been sending him. We are going to continue to see him improve and his next big horse is just around the corner, I am sure of that.”

That horse could well be the Aga Khan's Rajapour (Ire), unbeaten in three starts at two and, crucially, hailing from the smart Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire) mare Raydara (Ire), who is exactly the type de Chambure will be encouraging breeders to send Almonzor going forward.

“We were all a bit surprised that Almanzor had been throwing some size and, from his first crop, we got a few who were a bit big and backward. We all realised that and, even though they were like that, he showed that he can sire a really good horse. They can quicken and they have a turn of foot. Most of the breeders, the mares they have sent him now have a bit more speed and are more short-coupled, and we have seen the difference in the progeny.”

a half an hour down the road from Etreham, some of the finest National Hunt sires standing in France were on show Haras de la Hetraie , including Gold Cup-producing Kapgarde (Fr), whose Fakir D'Oudaires (Fr) took the feature G2 Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles on Sunday.

The sire of last year's Gold Cup hero A Plus Tard (Fr) was joined in parade by fellow accomplished National Hunt stallion Great Pretender (Ire), best known for being the sire of Benie Des Dieux (Fr) and Greaneteen (Fr).

But it wasn't all about the stallions at Haras de la Hetraie, as not only did the stud offer top-notch entertainment when For Fun (Fr) lived up to his name by trying his hardest to break away from his handler, but the spread on offer was not bettered on the trip.

If it's French onion soup made by the boss himself, Pascal Noue, a fine selection of cured meats and enough oysters to feed a small village, Haras de la Hetraie was worth the trip even for those who hadn't got a mare in tow.

However, the majority of the people who made the trip to Sumbe were there in a professional capacity, according to Mathieu Le Forestier, nominations and racing manager at the stud, who reported that a lot of business had been done across the two days.

Easy to see why. Horses like Mishriff (Ire) don't retire to stud very often and, despite the fact that his debut season will be interrupted due to a slight setback, Le Forestier explained how interest in the stallion has not dwindled in the slightest because of it.

He said, “We envisage him covering 140 mares this year, which is a good number. The Prince [Faisal] will send him 35 to 40 mares of his own, which leaves about 100 nominations in Mishriff. “There have been virtually no cancellations from breeders after we announced his setback and the interest in him did not wane. We expect that he will resume covering on Mar. 15 and we don't see it being a big issue, except maybe for in the case of maiden mares.


“There aren't many alternatives to a horse of the quality Mishriff has in France and we have waited a long time to have a freshman with credentials as good as he has in the stud book here. Selling him is not the hardest job in my life.

“The good thing about Mishriff and Golden Horde (Ire) here at Sumbe is that they do the talking. We have done a lot of business over the past two days. There have not been many passers by and most of the people that have come here have been serious breeders.”

On the 2020 G1 Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde, who stands for €8,000, he added, “Golden Horde has been popular. He'll have good numbers but, most importantly, the right blend of people who breed to race and those who breed to sell have used him. We have 15 yearlings by him that we plan to race and they will be divided up between Andre Fabre, Jean-Claude Rouget, Roger Varian and Clive Cox.”

The sentiments shared by Le Forestier about Mishriff were be echoed by Mathieu Alex at Haras de Beaumont about G1 Qipco Champion S. winner Sealiway, set to stand for €12,000 this season, and very much the pride and joy of Pauline Cheboub's operation.

Asked if there had been much international interest at Haras de Beaumont on Saturday and Sunday, Alex said, “Yes, German, Irish, English, Swedish, Danish, American–we have had plenty of interest. This is business but also, and this is very important, the Route des Etalons gives us a chance to open our doors to the public and the industry needs that. Tourists, neighbors, it doesn't matter, everyone is welcome and we have to open the doors and explain our game. We have to show them that we love our horses. We have a mission.”

He added, “Sealiway was a champion two-year-old, which is extremely important nowadays. He won a Group 1 in England, the Champion S., where he beat three Classic winners, so he is a serious horse for France. That type of horse usually retires somewhere else. This place is for him. If it wasn't for him, none of this would be here. He's an extremely important horse and stallions like him are extremely important for this country. You've seen it with Le Havre (Ire), Siyouni (Fr), Wootton Bassett (GB), the whole country is propped up by them because they attract breeders from abroad. Also, they prop up the sales. So we need stallions like that.

“There has been a short-supply of top-class stallions in France and then we had three or four good ones at the same time. I don't know why that is. Siyouni is getting old, Le Havre is dead and now Wootton Bassett is gone. There is an opening and we need new good ones coming through. French people know that and, without mares, it doesn't matter how good Sealiway is, we need the mares. We are in the process of sorting out the mares for him this year and the important thing is numbers.”

If La Hetraie boasted the best food of the tour, well then the biggest crowd was recorded at Haras de Bonneval, where over 100 people turned out to see Siyouni and co strut their stuff during one of the afternoon sessions on Saturday.

Siyouni may have been the star attraction but Zarak (Fr), one of the hottest properties the country has to offer and set to stand for €60,000 this term, sent tongues wagging. Even Alain De Royer-Dupre turned out to say a few words about his Group 1-winning son of Dubawi (Ire) who has quickly made his mark at stud.


One of the more famous studs in France, Haras de Bouquetot, were provided with an opportunity to showcase some of its newbies, with Galileo Gold (GB) having made the move from Tally-Ho to stand alongside fellow newcomer Thunder Moon (Ire). Armor (GB) should make plenty of appeal to breeders, being a speedy son of No Nay Never, but there was no doubting the star attraction, as Wooded (Ire) wowed everyone in attendance and makes plenty of sense at €12,000.

Whether you are a high-end breeder on the Flat, want to produce the next big jumping star or are in search of a bit of value over both codes, the 2023 Route des Etalons confirms that there is something for everyone in France.

Three takeaways from the Route des Etalons
After a helter-skelter two days touring some of the best studs in France, here are some takeaways from a memorable trip.

Important Newbies
Mathieu Alex obviously has a vested interest in seeing Sealiway succeed but he spoke frankly and honestly about the need for another superstar stallion in France.

Siyouni is obviously operating at his pomp and, if Zarak continues on the trajectory that he is on, he could well take over the mantle but the importance of horses like Sealiway and Mishriff entering the stud book in France cannot be understated. Let's hope they are a success as there is clearly an opening there.

Exciting Times For Haras d'Etreham
Haras de Etreham managed Wootton Bassett from a €6,000 freshman to becoming a €40,000 stallion after just seven seasons before Coolmore swooped in and secured a deal for him to stand in Ireland in 2021 where he stands to this day for a cool €150,000.

Have Etreham uncovered the next Wootton Bassett in either Persian King or Hello Youmzain? That is obviously an exceptionally high bar to aim for but the early signs are promising.

In Persian King, Etreham can offer breeders a quality son of Kingman who has plenty of size while Hello Youmzain is exactly what you'd expect one of the fastest sons of Kodiac to look like.
The first foals by both stallions went down well in 2022, with some notable names signing for the progeny of the two, and it appears as though the future is bright for everyone at the famous French stud.

Dominance Of The Jumps
The dominance of the French-breds over jumps in Britain and Ireland is nothing new and a major highlight of the trip was getting the chance to see Kapgarde and No Risk At All in the flesh.
On Saturday, the Willie Mullins-trained It's For Me (Fr) (Jeu St Eloi {Fr}) shot to the head of the Champion Bumper betting when bolting up in a Navan bumper for Simon Munir and Isaac Souede.

Jeu St Eloi is more or less an unknown as a stallion in Britain and Ireland, which goes back to the point made about France's ability as a nation to churn out top-class horses time and time again from relatively obscure origins.


Beaumec De Houelle (Fr) could be the next sleeper of a stallion for National Hunt breeders to take note of. One of the only sons of Martaline (GB) to stand in France, he won five of his six starts, including the G1 three-year-old hurdle at Auteuil in 2018.

Of course, jumps horses retiring to stud is nothing new in France, with Balko being another example, whereas it is quite rare in Ireland. Apart from Nickname, few entires have competed at the highest level, although who's to say what heights Sir Eric would have reached had he not suffered a fatal injury.

The French do things differently, that's for sure, and they are all the better for it. The proof, as they say, is in the eating, and there was a lot to digest on this trip.

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Winter Oaks Goes To Lope De Vega’s Al Agaila

6th-Lingfield, £100,000, Hcp, 1-21, 4yo/up, f/m, 10f (AWT), 2:05.12, st.
AL AGAILA (IRE) (f, 4, Lope De Vega {Ire}–L'Amour de Ma Vie {GSW-UAE, SW-Fr, GSP-Eng, $322,632}, by Dansili {GB}), sent off the 10-11 favourite for this Winter Oaks having won the course-and-distance Winter Oaks Trial with ease last month, tracked the leading trio throughout the early stages. Earning the advantage approaching the furlong pole, the bay held on to score by a head from Morgan Fairy (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}). Simon Crisford said, “It was a tactical race and she would have benefitted from a stronger pace, as I think a real strong gallop will see her to better effect. Throughout the summer, she started growing and we had to give her some time, but she is doing very well now. We will speak to her owner Sheikh Khalid [bin Hamad Al Khalifa] and see if he is interested in coming back here for the [Feb. 25 G3] Winter Derby. We will be running against Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}) and Lord North (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), so it will be like the [G1 King George all over again! Entries for Dubai World Cup Night close on Monday and she will certainly get an entry for the [G1] Dubai Turf.” The winner is the sole runner from two foals of racing age so far out of the dam, who captured the G2 Balanchine and was runner-up in the G2 Duke of Cambridge S. and G2 Cape Verdi. A half to the GII Marathon S., GIII Greenwood Cup and GIII Hawthorne Gold Cup winner Scuba (Tapit), her 2-year-old full-brother to the winner was a €75,000 purchase by Barry Lynch at the Goffs Orby. Sales history: €240,000 Ylg '20 ARDEAY. Lifetime Record: 6-3-1-2, $101,809.
O-KHK Racing; B-Ballylinch Stud (IRE); T-Simon & Ed Crisford.

 

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Pauling Has a Pott Shot at the Classics

When Ben Pauling agreed last summer to train a couple of Flat horses for Andrew and Jane Megson who already had their string of jumpers with the Cotswolds-based 39-year-old, he had no idea what was coming.

Pauling says, “Harry Dunlop had told them that he wasn't going to be training next season. The conversation went along the lines of, 'We've got a nice, big, backward 2-year-old colt who needs gelding and then he should be lovely for next year. And we've got a little filly who has run well to win a maiden and a nursery; she's not overly big and has been relatively well-placed. Would you contemplate training them both for us? I said I'd love to.”

The filly, Polly Pott (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}) was due to run at Salisbury shortly afterwards, where she won again. Three weeks after that, she defied odds of 40-1 to take the G2 May Hill S. at Doncaster, and went on to finish fourth in the G1 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket, staying on despite meeting trouble in running. Just like that, the Megsons had a Classic prospect on their hands.

Pauling continues, “Andrew and Jane aren't in it as a business, it's very much their hobby, and they were offered some serious money from various different people for her. But it was never a question, they were not going to sell, because they'd told me I was going to train her next year. I said, 'You guys really can–if you want to sell her on and cash out, you must.' 'No no no, that is not an option, she cost us £21,000 and she owes us nothing, so let's just enjoy her', they said.

“A lot of people have said to me, 'Are you nervous–would you have taken her on if you had known how good she is?' Of course I would,” he says emphatically. “It doesn't matter whether you are training Flat or jumps horses, you want the best you can deal with. The better horses just make your job easier.

“It will be a lot of fun, but it will be taken very seriously. I already have a very detailed plan for her training regime. While we all know that the best-laid plans don't always come to fruition, we will try to follow a route towards having her ready to run in the Guineas. She may not have the speed for a quick-ground Guineas; if it came up soft I think she would, but I do think she will stay the mile and a half. She has done brilliantly well over the winter–she's grown and she's a lot stronger.

“We are very fortunate to be in this position. Some of my friends in the industry who train Flat horses probably can't quite believe that we've got her, but it's only a situation that has occurred. It isn't that I deserve a horse of this calibre or have produced results to get a horse of this calibre, but I have got a very loyal family in the Megsons who support me and believe in what we do, and that goes a long way.”

Pauling, a former assistant to Nicky Henderson, started training in 2013 and has an eye-catching career to date. He has three Cheltenham Festival winners to his credit, starting with the G1 Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle victory of Willoughby Court (Ire) (Court Cave {GB}) in 2017. Le Breuil (Fr) (Anzillero {Fr}) took the National Hunt Chase in 2019 and last year Global Citizen (Ire) (Alkaadhem {Ire}) gave Andrew and Jane Megson their first Cheltenham victory in the G3 Grand Annual Chase, a race the 11-year-old will target again in March.

“That's the only time I have cried on a racecourse,” admits Andrew Megson, who came across Pauling when he was looking to change trainers around six years ago. “We actually got our daughter Lily to visit a few yards, and she went and met Ben at his old yard. She said, 'I really like this guy. He's young and on his way up. His yard [at the time] is not a palace, but he really looks after the horses.' Since then, we've got to know him and his team very well. We think Ben is a brilliant trainer, and we admire people who have ambition and take risks.”

If Global Citizen's Festival success brought him to tears, Polly Pott's May Hill win was equally mind-blowing.

“The world went mad that afternoon,” West Yorkshire-based Megson says, the joy audible in his voice. “We couldn't stay and celebrate because we had to attend a charity function in Manchester, but on the way there the phone rang off the hook. Everyone wanted to buy her, or  to sell her for us–it was almost bizarre. But the bottom line is, we'll never have a Flat horse like her again. In racing terms, she's the needle in the haystack.”

Megson had already discussed the idea of having some runners on the Flat with Pauling; perhaps buying some breeze-up horses with staying pedigrees that might start on the Flat and then change codes. More fun than summer jumping, anyway.

“Then Harry Dunlop told us before the May Hill that he was retiring. Jane and I didn't really want to forge another relationship with a trainer, so I rang Ben and asked if he fancied taking them.”

As well as Polly Pott and the now-gelded “backward” Bingley Crocker (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {Ire}), whom Megson says has grown two inches over the winter, Pauling will also handle four-time winner Matty Too (GB) (Matt {GB}). The 4-year-old gelding bought from the Tattersalls Horses-In-Training Sale last autumn, largely to to be Polly Pott's lead horse although he will race as well, of course, and Wind River (Ire), a Sioux Nation 2-year-old the Megsons bought at Goffs last year. The owner thinks that, in total and including some stores, they have 23 horses, all with Pauling.

He says, “We think Ben's a top, top trainer. He cares for the horses and I can't see how anyone could get more out of Polly than Ben. His new yard is stunning. You can see how happy the horses are–and they are winning.”

Pauling's lanky, baseball-capped form is folded into a sofa in the first-floor office overlooking his yard at Naunton Downs, into which he moved in April 2022. It is late afternoon and the stable lights glow through the steady rain as dusk falls. It has everything you'd expect from a training establishment: 94 stables, walker, trotting ring, school, round gallop, hill gallop, tack rooms, rug rooms, canteen, and so on. However, it looks more like Soho Farmhouse for horses than, say, the yard belonging to Nigel Twiston-Davies a mile away across the valley. Everything is new, everything is high-spec and everything is designed and built exactly to Ben and his wife Sophie's specifications. When his highly efficient secretary Hannah Vowles shows me around, she points out the flooring in the boxes, which feel like walking on a memory-foam mattress–which is what they are.

“They were developed in Ireland for cattle parlours, and when our assistant trainer Tom David spent some time at Henry de Bromhead's a few years ago, who has them, he came back raving about them. In short, they consist of a rubber-filled lilo layered with rubber crumb to level it, topped with 20mm of memory-foam mattress and then a high-tensile runner sheet which is sealed to the floors and walls. We think we are the only big establishment in the UK to have them. The horses seem much warmer and definitely lie down more,” explains Hannah.

All the stables have a double vista, so the horses can see out of the back as well as the front of their boxes, and 30 of them have an outside pen in which to mooch about if they choose, and there are many more interesting and carefully-thought out details. If the rented yard a few miles away in which he spent the first nine years of his training career wasn't a palace, this is about as close to one as it gets.

Pauling explains, “Sophie and I were looking for somewhere to buy, because we had been renting and we knew we wanted to own our own yard. We tried to buy various farms in the area and kept losing out, mainly to London money. A few years back an owner of mine had said that if I ever had designs on owning my own yard, that she was sure that the Naunton Downs Golf Course was a fabulous place and probably wasn't going to last forever as a golf course and that I should keep an eye on it.

“One night, four years later, Sophie Googled Naunton Downs Golf Course, and there it was for sale. So we bought it with the view that if we couldn't get a yard here we'd run it as a golf course and a separate business, and down the line it would be a nice investment for our children to have.

“But it all came about quite quickly. Through Covid we put plans in to the planning department and so on, and it all went through in a relatively straightforward way because it is another commercial business on a currently commercial property. From an environmental perspective it was already not a natural canvas, because being a golf course it has already been moved and moulded and what have you. We bought it in January 2020, got planning permission by December 2020, started work in January 2021 and moved in in April 2022. The whole thing came to life much quicker than we thought it was going to.”

As well as Sophie, Hannah, Tom and the rest of Pauling's team, he gives great credit to Ed Hoddell of Hartpury Construction for “putting our plans into bricks and mortar.”

The 18-hole course is dropping to nine holes this autumn, to be more financially viable, but the two businesses–racing and golf–run happily side by side. The clubhouse has been glamorously refurbished and is now the Fitzdares Club in the Cotswolds (Fitzdares are Pauling's yard sponsors).

Pauling has trained 60 jumps winners so far this season; easily his best numerically to date.

“Our strike-rate has been 25%, which is amazing and I hope we can keep it going, because once you've set a standard, you don't want to drop from it,” Pauling says. “It's been the dream start from the new yard.”

Does he see himself “doing an Alan King” and eventually having as many Flat horses as jumpers?

“I was chatting to an owner yesterday about a couple of 2-year-olds who might come this way,” he says. “But, no, we are not going out there this season to try to build a massive Flat string. While I would love to see the Flat side progress, whether or not we want to be training 60, 70 Flat horses in the summer, I don't know yet. It would be lovely if we had a nice bunch of Flat horses to run through the summer, then we wouldn't necessarily have to have a big team of summer jumpers.

“The days when you could empty the yard and all have six weeks off with not a horse in sight are long gone, because the whole place has to be financially viable, and as much as I have enjoyed my summer jumping recently I don't have any ambition to train 30, 40 summer jumpers either, so if I could have 15 Flat horses and 15 summer jumpers, I'd be a very happy man. We've never pretended we are going to reinvent the wheel–we will train the horses which are here to the best of their ability and do what is right for their owners.

“We won't do anything overly different–we'll use the same gallops. I was intrigued when Harry Dunlop came the other day to look round and have a chat that he said that his brother Ed had a circular deep sand round gallop that he lobs the Flat horses round for conditioning. Our hill gallop wouldn't be the steepest, so it might be suited more to speed and a few Flat horses, so the whole place hopefully lends itself to both. We're just looking forward to the challenge; there'll be a lot of excitement if it goes well, and if it doesn't we'll have to have a rethink and see where we are going wrong and how we can improve.”

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ITBF Webinar Again Proves Popular

Over 700 individuals from 42 countries on six continents registered to attend the International Thoroughbred Breeders' Federation's (ITBF) third annual webinar held this past Thursday.

Some of the highlights from the webinar include “Aga Khan Studs – A Centenary of Success” presented by legendary journalist, author and television racing presenter Brough Scott MBE. Scott was joined by French Studs manager Georges Rimaud, who answered a variety of questions submitted by attendees from all over the world.

ITBF's Vice Chairman, Dr. Des Leadon, then introduced Professor Anne Couroucé of Nantes University, who discussed the highly concerning EHV Neurological form. Couroucé gave her first-hand experience and subsequent research findings. Her presentation identified the nature of the specific symptoms manifested in relation to the differing environments and disease spread, a vital component in protecting the Thoroughbred world against the devastating consequences of an outbreak.

The video recording of the webinar for all those who were not able to attend the live event is available now. Click here to view the full film “A Game of Chess with Nature–Celebrating 100 years of the Aga Khan Studs.”

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