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Osarus Breeze Up Catalogue Online

Osarus has unveiled the catalogue for its Breeze Up Sale at La Teste Racecourse on Apr. 27. The breeze will take place the day prior from 2:30 p.m., and will be broadcast live on France Sire TV with individual videos available after on the Osarus website.

There are 65 2-year-olds catalogued for the sale, including a Siyouni (Fr) colt out of the two-time winner Letthemusictakeus (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) (lot 17), a half-sister to the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois and G1 Coronation S. winner Immortal Verse (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}). It is also the family of the Group 1-winning Galileo (Ire) sisters Hydrangea (Ire) and Hermosa (Ire).

Lot 52 is a colt by last year's standout first-season sire Mehmas (Ire) who is a half-brother to the G2 Norfolk S. third Silver Line (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}); lot 8 is an Iffraaj (GB) colt out of the Group 3-placed Golden Stunner (Ire) (Dream Ahead) from the family of Classic winner Canford Cliffs (Ire) and triple group winner Triple Threat (Fr); and lot 12 is a half-brother to four-time Grade III winner Elysea's World (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) by Exceed and Excel (Aus). Territories (Ire) has four from his second crop catalogued including a filly out of a half-sister to G3 Autumn S. winner and G1 Racing Post Trophy second Fantastic View (Distant View) (lot 36) and a filly out of a half-sister to G3 Earl Of Sefton S. winner and the multiple Group 1-placed Phoenix Tower (Chester House) (lot 53). First-season sires represented include Almanzor (Fr), Cotai Glory (GB), Ectot (GB) and Recorder (GB).

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Pivotal Pensioned From Stud Duties

Pivotal (GB) (Polar Falcon-Fearless Revival {GB}, by Cozzene), the Group 1-winning sprinter who has excelled as both a sire and broodmare sire, has been pensioned from stud duty at Cheveley Park Stud at the age of 28. The chestnut had remained in service at his birthplace up until last year, covering reduced numbers of mares in recent years, and will live out his remaining life at the Newmarket nursery.

Bred by David and Patricia Thompson's Cheveley Park Stud, Pivotal was a member of the first crop of the G1 Sprint Cup victor Polar Falon and out of Fearless Revival, whom the Thompsons had bought in utero when they purchased the G1 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Stufida (GB) (Bustino {GB}) for $150,000 at Keeneland November in 1986.

Retained to race by the Thompsons, Pivotal went into training with Sir Mark Prescott and won two of his three starts at two. He made a belated start to his 3-year-old campaign but soon made up for lost time, beating elders in the G2 King's Stand S. at Royal Ascot in 1996. He ran just twice more, finishing sixth in the G1 July Cup before going out on a high with a win in the G1 Nunthorpe S., in the process earning champion sprinter honours and becoming Cheveley Park Stud's first homebred Group 1 winner.

Chris Richardson, managing director of Cheveley Park Stud, said, “The story associated with the 'Mighty' Pivotal is

truly extraordinary, considering he was the result of the very first covering his sire, Polar Falcon, was given. Thankfully, as a yearling, it was decided to retain him to race rather than offer him for sale, as we did with the other yearling colts by Polar Falcon that year. Whilst in the hands of trainer Sir Mark Prescott, Pivotal truly put Cheveley Park Stud on the map, giving owners David and Patricia Thompson their first Group 1 winner in the stud's famous red, white and blue colours.”

Pivotal debuted at Cheveley Park Stud in 1997 for £6,000, and his first four crops yielded no more than 58 foals apiece. Nonetheless, he had 13 winners from 29 starters in 2000, his first year with runners, including two stakes winners, good enough to be the leading British-based first-season sire of his cohort.

As he had done himself, Pivotal's progeny made it a habit of improving with age, and that first crop only got better, eventually yielding three Group 1 winners and nine stakes winners, headed by the GI Beverly D. S., GI Yellow Ribbon S. and GI Del Mar Oaks scorer Golden Apples (Ire); Kyllachy (GB), who emulated his sire with a win in the Nunthorpe before joining him at Cheveley Park Stud; and the G1 Preis der Diana winner Silvester Lady (GB). Pivotal's subsequent two crops included the G1 Pretty Polly S. victress Chorist (GB), the G1 Sprint Cup, G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and G1 Prix de la Foret scorer Somnus (GB) and the Yellow Ribbon S. and GI John C. Mabee S. winner Megahertz (GB), and thus by the time Pivotal was covering his sixth book in 2003 the secret was well and truly out. He was courted by 100 mares that season and he wouldn't cover less than that again until 2012, although the biggest book he ever covered was 122 in 2007.

Pivotal was twice Britain's leading sire by earnings and eight times the nation's leading sire by individual winners. His first British/Irish Classic win came courtesy of Saoire (GB) in the 2005 G1 Irish 1000 Guineas. Halfway To Heaven (Ire) took that same race in 2008 before going on to a celebrated career as a broodmare, while Sariska (GB) took their sire to the next level with an Epsom/Irish Oaks double in 2009. Falco won the 2008 G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains, while Buzzword (GB) took the G1 Deutsches Derby of 2010.

Other standouts by Pivotal have included the dual Group 1-winning mares Izzi Top (GB), Immortal Verse (Ire) and Peeress (GB); G1 Dubai World Cup scorer African Story (GB); G1 Champion S. and G1 Lockinge S. winner and popular sire Farhh (GB); G1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardere victor Siyouni (Fr), who is also keeping Pivotal's line safe with an excellent start at stud; triple Australian Group 1 winner Avilius (GB); dual Group 1-winning sprinter Regal Parade (GB); and G1 St James's Palace S. winner and sire Excellent Art (GB). Pivotal proved a rare ability to throw runners of the highest class from five furlongs all the way up to a mile and a half, and his progeny have become known for their longevity, too. Nowhere was this more apparent than last year on British Champions Day, when Pivotal scored a Group 1 double in his 20th season with runners courtesy of Addeybb (Ire) in the Champion S. and Glen Shiel (GB) in the British Champions Sprint S. Both are six, and Addeybb was earning his third win at the highest level, having taken two Group 1s in Australia earlier in the year. He stays in training as a 7-year-old with plans to defend his titles in the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. and G1 Ranvet S. Down Under should Covid protocols allow it. And while Addeybb and Glen Shiel are both geldings, there is plenty of sire power within the Pivotal line, led by Siyouni and also including Kyllachy, Farhh, Excellent Art (GB) and Falco. Kyllachy stood alongside his sire for 15 years before preceding him in retirement in 2017, and today his dual Group 1-winning son Twilight Son (GB) holds the mantle. Pivotal's G1 Sussex S.-winning son Lightning Spear (GB) has his first yearlings this year.

Pivotal has thus far left behind 32 Group 1 winners, but it could still be that his greatest legacy comes through his daughters, who have provided 23 Group 1 winners. The aforementioned Halfway To Heaven is responsible for two of those, both daughters of Galileo (Ire): Magical (Ire), the winner of seven Group 1s including the Champion and Irish Champion S. (twice) and the highest earner out of a Pivotal mare with over £4.9-million in the bank; and the G1 Fillies' Mile, G1 Lockinge S. and G1 Prix de l'Opera scorer Rhododendron (Ire). Other products of the Galileo/Pivotal cross include last year's champion 3-year-old filly Love (Ire) and full siblings Hermosa (Ire), Hydrangea (Ire) and The United States (Ire).

Pivotal's daughters have likewise developed an affinity with Galileo's best son Frankel (GB), the best from that cross being the dual Champion S. and four-time Group 1 winner Cracksman (GB), one of the highest-rated horses of the past decade. The Frankel/Pivotal cross has also been responsible for Cheveley Park's homebred G1 Falmouth S. winner Veracious (GB). Other standouts out of Pivotal mares include the American champion turf horse Main Sequence (Aldebaran), triple Group 1-winning sprinter Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), triple G1 Prix de la Foret winner One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), French Classic winners Precieuse (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}) and Olmedo (Fr) (Declaration Of War), Group 1-winning sprinters Mayson (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Mabs Cross (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) and Golden Horde (Ire) (Lethal Force {Ire}), and G1 Cheveley Park S. and G1 Flying Five S. scorer Fairyland (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}).

While wrapping up his 50th season with a license last November, Sir Mark Prescott spoke about Pivotal in an interview with the TDN.

“Pivotal is a much better stallion than I ever thought he would be,” Prescott said. “I suppose his great quality was that he was infinitely faster than his pedigree. The only time we tried him over six [furlongs] was the only time we had a disaster. And I have since watched and believe that all sorts of horses who've been infinitely more successful than one thought have been faster than their pedigrees. Not many have been successful at stud that were slower than their pedigree.”

Prescott admitted that Pivotal didn't make a memorable first impression, but that the chestnut quickly began to make amends.

“He fell off the box when he came here but the first time we worked him, he absolutely flew,” Prescott said. “And it was a complete shock; normally you've got an idea.”

Pivotal's story has truly been an extraordinary one, he having been responsible for so many milestones for his dedicated owner/breeders and having outbattled a four figure fee and modest early numbers to stand for as high as £85,000. He has sired 153 stakes winners worldwide (10.8% of starters) and his daughters have produced 111 stakes winners. And there is more to come: Pivotal has 48 3-year-olds of 2021, 47 2-year-olds and 31 yearlings and covered 28 mares in his final season last year.

Richardson said of Pivotal's legacy at stud, “Having covered a relatively small book of mares in his first year, his resulting progeny excelled and inspired at all levels, which they have continued to do throughout his career, both domestically and internationally. On the world stage, Pivotal has excelled as a sire, a sire of sires and as a broodmare sire, to the highest level and all of us at Cheveley Park Stud have been so blessed to have been part of his life for 28 years. I think Triple Crown winner, Isinglass, whose stable Pivotal occupies, would have been very proud and we all wish Pivotal a well-deserved and happy retirement.”

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Follow ‘La Route’ Online For 2021

The Route des Etalons was established in 2010 in an attempt to stimulate a flagging French stallion scene. A little over a decade on, it could be said that it's 'job done'. That doesn't mean that the annual open weekend of Normandy studs has been shelved. Its popularity has grown year on year for breeders and bloodstock pilgrims alike, and it is only a global pandemic that has stopped it run in 2021. It will, however, be staged online across this weekend, with videos of the 108 stallions involved shown on the official website from 9am local time.

The A to Z of the region's stallions, from Almanzor (Fr) to Zelzal (Fr), has a price range from €1,000 to €140,000, the latter commanded by France's champion sire, Siyouni (Fr), sire of last season's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass (Fr). Between those two figures can be found a horse to suit just about every breeder's budget and, as has increasingly been the case in recent years, a number of high-profile young stallions have joined the French ranks for 2021.

There's quite a leap in price from Siyouni down to the next most expensive stallion in France at €40,000, the established Classic sire Le Havre (Ire). His best runner last year was the dual Group 1-winning filly Wonderful Tonight (Fr), who was bred at Haras de Montfort et Préaux, where her sire stands under Nurlan Bizakov's Sumbé banner. Le Havre has recently been joined by new recruit Golden Horde (Ire). The G1 Commonwealth Cup-winning son of Lethal Force (Ire) whose grandam is a half-sister to champion racemare and producer Serena's Song (Rahy), makes his debut at €10,000.

“It's always very nice to meet the breeders, especially when you have a new horse, but we were lucky that we were able to bring Golden Horde in to Deauville during the sales so plenty of people saw him there, and he has had visitors every day,” said Mathieu Alex of Sumbé. “But of course there is always a great atmosphere for the Route des Etalons, when you can welcome people, and breeders meet, but this year we have to be sensible and be careful.”

He added, “We obviously liked Golden Horde a lot physically but it's always nice to get feedback and to hear that people agree with us. He's going down well and it's obviously important to get the support from the breeders. Mr Bizakov will support him with mares also.

“It's also an exciting year for Recorder (GB) with his first runners. We've worked for three years for that and he has 100-plus horses in training, in France and some abroad. We have 15 that were bred here that we've sent to good trainers, so fingers crossed.”

While its flagship stallion Wootton Bassett (GB) has moved to stand at Coolmore in Ireland, Haras d'Etreham has an exciting year in store with the arrival of two new Group 1 winners, Persian King (Ire) and Hello Youmzain (Fr), each being the sole French representative of their popular respective sires Kingman (GB) and Kodiac (GB). Furthermore, once the Flat season starts, Wootton Bassett's champion son Almanzor (Fr) will be represented by his first runners, while the first foals of his fellow Etreham resident City Light (Fr) will be arriving over the next few months.

Camelot (GB) enjoyed a terrific season with his runners in 2020 and two of his sons join French studs this year. Etreham's National Hunt wing, Haras de la Tuilerie, welcomes the Irish Derby winner Latrobe (Ire), while among Haras d'Annebault's new faces for the season is Fighting Irish (Ire). Breeders using the Group 2 winner in his first season will be eligible for a €50,000 bonus if they are fortunate enough to breed Fighting Irish's first Group winner in France, Britain or Ireland.

The retirement of Kendargent (Fr) to stud in 2010 coincided with the first year of the Route des Etalons initiative. Breeders who viewed him and perhaps used him then at his introductory fee of €1,000 will have enjoyed the success he has had in the ensuing years, which has really put Haras de Colleville, the farm of his owner Guy Pariente, firmly on the map of Normandy's leading studs. The grey, now 18, was joined at stud in 2017 by his son Goken (Fr), who was France's leading first-season sire in 2020, and their stud companion Galiway (GB), has also made a pleasing start to his career, most notably as the sire of G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Sealiway (Fr).

Another son of Kendargent returns to France this year. The former Godolphin campaigner Jimmy Two Times (Fr) spent his first two seasons in Germany at Gestut Hofgut Heymann but is now resident at Haras de Montaigu alongside the popular young National Hunt stallions No Risk At All (Fr) and Beaumec De Houelle (Fr).

“Jimmy Two Times is small and compact but he is very well-balanced, strong horse,” said Sybille Gibson of Haras de Montaigu. “I took him to the Hippodrome de Clairefontaine during the sales in December and lots of people came to see him then. We just hope he will do as well as Goken has done. 'Jimmy' was the best colt by Kendargent so we dream.”

The offspring of No Risk At All include the reigning Champion Hurdler Epatante (Fr), while Beaumec De Houelle, who now has yearlings on the ground, is a son of the late Montaigu resident Martaline (GB).

Gibson continued, “No Risk At All and Beaumec De Houelle are both fully booked, with mares from all the best breeders in France, and more and more people from abroad. The English are just mad for No Risk At All. Both horses are limited to 150 mares and they were full in November.”

Breeders going both ways across the Channel this year face increased expense and paperwork in the wake of the end of the Brexit transition period, which is understandably causing a few headaches for stud owners.

“We have had received a few mares from England and we have already had one or two cancellations,” Gibson said. “And for us it's the same, we don't know if we are going to send all our mares that were due to go to England because with Brexit the transport is now quite complicated.”

She added, “We will really miss the Route des Etalons this year. We have had a few breeders come to the farm but I think some people don't really want to travel too much at the moment. Normally we would have between 200 and 300 people visit us over the weekend. They came not only to see the new stallions but to see us and to see how the horses were changing. We had more and more people coming from a long way, not just Normandy. We will just have to look forward to next year.”

The burgeoning stallion unit at Larissa Kneip's Haras de Saint Arnoult has been extended again this year to include newcomers Elarqam (GB)—a son of two champions in Frankel (GB) and Attraction (GB)—and Yafta (GB), a Group 3-winning son of Dark Angel (Ire).

Kneip said, “Elarqam is very well booked, which is not surprising. He's the only son of Frankel in France and he was Frankel's second-highest rated runner after Cracksman. Yafta already has about 50 mares booked to him. Until recently we didn't have too many speed stallions in France but there are a few more now and obviously there was a demand for them. But none of them seem to have the sort of pedigree Yafta has, because it is really speed throughout, back to the fifth generation, and that's quite a rarity.”

The farm with the largest roster of nine stallions is Al Shaqab's Haras de Bouquetot, which this year has signed up Robert Ng's G1 Prix Jacques le Marois winner Romanised (Ire) as well as the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye winner Wooded (Ire), a son of Wootton Bassett. They join Shalaa (Ire), who has recently returned from Arrowfield Stud in Australia, where his first crop includes the Magic Millions 2yo Classic winner Shaquero (Aus), and Al Wukair (Ire), who has first-cop runners in Europe this season.

Sea The Stars (Ire) has two young sons at stud in France, Bouquetot's Zelzal (Fr), who his first runners this year, and Haras du Logis resident Cloth Of Stars (Ire), the G1 Prix Ganay winner who was placed in two Arcs and has his first yearlings at the sales of 2021. Another young stallion taking that next important step in his career this year is Recoletos (Fr), the winner of seven of his 14 starts including two Group 1s. He stands alongside the Derby winner Motivator (GB), sire of the mighty Treve (Fr), at Haras du Quesnay.

Plenty will be expected from the first-crop runners by Zarak (Fr) when they take to the track this year. Not only is he a Group 1-winning son of Dubawi (Ire), whose sons Night Of Thunder (Ire) and New Bay (GB) have made encouraging starts to their own stud careers in the last two seasons, but he is out of the brilliant Arc winner Zarkava (Fr) and shares his broodmare sire Zamindar with Kingman. Ordinarily, a visit to the Aga Khan's Haras du Bonneval is one of the highlights for travellers on the route. This year Zarak, Dariyan (Fr) and their illustrious stablemate Siyouni must be admired from afar.

Videos and further information on the stallions from the 28 participating studs will de displayed online over the weekend and, when the world returns to some sort of normality, be sure to brighten up next January with a trip around the picturesque farms of Normandy.

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Siyouni Comes Of Age

It is only a decade since the most expensive stallion at stud in France was Elusive City at €15,000. Yet to have runners at that stage were Le Havre (Ire) and Kendargent (Fr), who entered stud in 2010, followed by Siyouni (Fr) in 2011 and then Wootton Bassett (GB) the next year. Those are the four names who dominated the French sires’ championship in 2020 and can take a large part of the credit for an increasingly dynamic stallion scene in France.

Siyouni, who now commands a fee of €140,000 having started his career at €7,000, is the French champion sire and was second overall in Europe to Galileo (Ire). He had to play second fiddle to Galileo in his home country last year and to an extent that could be put down to what a difference an Arc makes. Galileo sired the 2019 Arc winner Waldgeist (GB), while new Coolmore stallion Sottsass (Fr) enjoyed the biggest day of his career in front of an almost empty ParisLongchamp grandstand in October 2020. He made a huge contribution to Siyouni’s overall progeny earnings of just over €4 million—double that of Le Havre—but the Aga Khan Studs stallion had plenty of other winners, 63 in total in France including nine stakes winners and 17 black-type performers in France, with 27 of the latter throughout Europe.

While Sottsass was the stand-out, Siyouni also sired his second winner of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Dream And Do (Fr), who is now in the ownership of Katsumi Yoshida. His reputation farther afield was bolstered by the G1 Dewhurst S. winner St Mark’s Basilica (Ire) and GI EP Taylor S. victrix Etoile (Fr).

The 62 winners for Le Havre were led by a filly trained outside France but by a Frenchman. The G1 Prix de Royallieu and G1 QIPCO British Champion Fillies & Mares S. Winner Wonderful Tonight (Fr) is the stable star for Sussex-based David Menuisier and she was a another feather in the cap of her breeders Sylvain Vidal and Mathieu Alex, who have played a major role in the rejuvenation of the French stallion scene at what was originally known as Haras de la Cauvinière and is now Haras de Montfort et Préaux. Now under the ownership of Nurlan Bizakov, the stud has a further name to grapple with this year in Sumbé, the title which now unites Montfort et Préaux with Bizakov’s original breeding base of Hesmonds Stud in England.

Le Havre, who was tenth overall in the European table, notched 11 black-type winners in Europe last season included the hugely promising Normandy Bridge (Fr), winner of the G3 Prix Thomas Bryon and runner-up to Van Gogh (American Pharoah) in the G1 Criterium International. A tall colt with plenty of scope, he could be one to put his young trainer Stephanie Nigge firmly on the map in 2021.

Kendargent has been one of the great success stories of the French ranks in recent years. The non-stakes winner who started out at a fee of €1,000, he received significant backing from his passionate owner Guy Pariente, whose Haras de Colleville, near Deauville, has blossomed into a breeding operation of some repute.

Now 18, Kendargent is in danger of being upstaged by his son Goken (Fr), who was France’s leading first-season sire of 2020, and Kendargent has also featured as the broodmare sire of several stakes winner by his other Colleville companion, Galiway (GB). His fee peaked at €22,000 and is down to €10,000 for 2021. His leading performer from 63 French winners last season was the globe-trotting Skalleti (Fr), who beat Sottsass when winning the Prix Gontaut-Biron, followed that up by winning the G2 Prix Dollar and was then second to Adeyybb (Ire) in the G1 QIPCO British Champion S.

Wootton Bassett has also been a real success story for French breeding, so much so that he was headhunted by Coolmore last year and is about to serve his first season in Ireland at a fee of €100,000, having stood for as little as €4,000 in this third and fourth seasons. The James Fanshawe-trained Audarya (Fr) followed up her G1 Prix Jean Romanet win with a memorable victory at the Breeders’ Cup, while Wooded (Fr) won the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye before being whisked off to stud himself. There were also close calls for Wootton Bassett’s offspring in the French Classics: his daughters Speak Of The Devil (Fr) and Mageva (Fr) were second and third in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and The Summit (Fr) was runner-up (Ire) in the Poulains.

The winner of that race, Victor Ludorum (Ire), helped his late sire Shamardal to a fifth place in the French sires’ table, his 10 black-type winners including the Aga Khan’s classy Tarnawa (Ire) and Pinatubo (Ire), winner of the G1 Prix Jean Prat.

Rajsaman (Fr) is another to have left France and is now at Ireland’s Longford House Stud but he still sires plenty of winners in his native country, with 60 last year, to put him in sixth place.

Completing the top ten were Juddmonte’s Kingman (GB), whose outstanding French representative was Persian King (Ire); Haras du Quesnay’s Anodin (Ire), who sired four stakes winners in 2020 including G3 Prix de Fille de l’Air winner Directa (Fr); Dabirsim (Fr) and the now Japanese-based Makfi (GB).

The aforementioned Goken was not only leading first-season sire in France but also the country’s leading sire of 2-year-olds, with his 15 winners putting him three ahead of Siyouni in the juvenile category.

Leading sires in Germany
That Sadler’s Wells is a major influence is hardly newsflash material. His reach in Germany is predominantly through one of his lesser-heralded sons, the late In The Wings (GB), whose best sire son, arguably, was Singspiel (Ire). The German ranks are headed by two of his other sons, Adlerflug (Ger), who is champion for the first time ahead of Soldier Hollow (GB), the title holder in the previous two years as well as in 2016.

Physically they are chalk and cheese. Adlerflug, a tall, flashy chestnut, is a product of Germany’s oldest stud farm, Gestut Schlenderhan. Meanwhile, the diminutive bay Soldier Hollow, was bred in England by Car Colston Hall Stud and has spent his stud career initially at Gestut Rottgen before moving to Karl-Dieter Ellerbracke’s Gestut Auenquelle in 2012, whence he has been Germany’s busiest and most expensive stallion for a number of years. Incidentally, Soldier Hollow’s owner Helmut von Finck, who has had notable success with his offspring, has commissioned a video to celebrate the stallion’s 20th birthday, which can be found here.

Adlerflug covered 39 mares in 2020 and he really is a stallion who should be taken more seriously outside Germany. For a start, he is bred very similarly to Galileo (Ire): beyond the Sadler’s Wells top line they share a third dam, Anatevka (Ger), with Adlerflug’s grandam Alya (Ger) being a full-sister to Allegretta (GB).

Ranking 20th overall in the European sires’ championship with markedly fewer runners than all the stallions above him, Adlerflug was responsible for the first two home in the G1 Deutsches Derby, Schlenderhan’s In Swoop (Ire), who was subsequently runner-up in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris and G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, and Torquator Tasso (Ger), who went on to win the G1 Grosser Preis von Berlin. A rare runner for him in Britain in 2020 was the William Haggas-trained juvenile Alenquer (Fr), an easy winner on debut at Newbury who followed up with second in the listed Ascendant S. and looks a colt to follow in 2021.

Alenquer is out of a mare by former German champion sire and classy sprinter Areion (Ger), a veteran son of Big Shuffe (Ger) who was third in the table in 2020 and, now 25, has spent the last three seasons at Gestut Etzean.

Among the younger stallions to note is Gestut Ohlerweierhof’s Isfahan (Ger), the leading German-based first-season sire in 2020. Like Adlerflug, he is a former winner of the Deutsches Derby, and from his 10 runners in 2020, five were winners, including Isfahani (Ger), who won the G3 Premio Guido Berardelli on debut in the colours of her sire’s owner Stefan Oschmann of Darius Racing. Isfahan should be expected to make a bigger impression with his first 3-year-olds, and the same can be said for Gestut Rottgen’s Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist (Ger), the lone son of Monsun (Ger) remaining at stud in Germany.

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