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Finalists For The 2022 UK GSSS Awards Announced

A total of 18 finalists for the 2022 UK Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff Awards were revealed on Wednesday. The finalists will be judged on Monday, Feb. 21, and a virtual ceremony announcing the winners will be broadcast live by Racing TV later that evening. The finalists and their employers are:

David Nicholson Newcomer
Ella Garland – Nick Gifford Racing
Elouise O'Hart – Ed Walker
Debbie Brodie – Godolphin Management Co. Ltd.

Leadership
Timothy Hogg – Jedd O'Keefe Racing Ltd.
Tom Messenger – Dan Skelton
Jack Steels – Ed Walker

Rider/Groom
Paddy Trainor – Johnston Racing Ltd.
Christina Berry – Grace Harris
John Nicholson – Johnston Racing Ltd.

Stud Staff
Balazs Karoly Sipos – Hascombe and Valiant Stud
Dulcie West – North Farm Stud
Richard Heayns-Corrick – Chapel Stud

Dedication
Volodymyr (Vova) Stepanyuk – Nick Gifford Racing
Alyson West – James Ferguson
Simon Olley – Philip Kirby

Community (In recognition of the wonderful work Rory MacDonald achieved at The British Racing School)
Andrew Braithwaite – The British Racing School
Freedom Zampaladus – Urban Equestrian Academy
Kevin & Pam Atkinson – New Beginnings
For more information on the awards, please visit the UK GSSS Awards fact sheet.

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Group 1 Producer Cabaret to Visit Siyouni in 2022

Two-time Group 1 producer Cabaret (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}-Witch of Fife, by Lear Fan), who is due to foal a colt by Kingman (GB) this month, will visit Siyouni (Fr) later this year, it has been confirmed to the TDN. Currently boarding at the Aga Khan Studs in France, the dam of Classic winners and young sires Magna Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and St Mark's Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) was purchased by BBA Ireland's Adrian Nicoll for 600,000gns out of the 2011 Tattersalls December Mares Sale on behalf of Bob Scarborough.

A winner of the G3 Silver Flash S. herself, Cabaret's first Classic-winning son, the 360,000gns 2016 Tattersalls December Foal Sale purchase Magna Grecia, won the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy at two and progressed to take the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas in 2019. A resident of Coolmore Stud in Ireland, the bay's first juveniles will race in 2022.

Joining his older half-brother at Coolmore this term is the Cartier Horse of the Year St Mark's Basilica. The top-rated colt in Europe in 2020 after winning the G1 Darley Dewhurst S. and running third in the G1 National S., the bay rattled off four more Group 1 wins-the French 2000 Guineas, Qatar Prix du Jockey Club, Coral-Eclipse and Irish Champion S. last year. He was purchased by MV Magnier for 1.3 million gns out of the 2019 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Her latest offspring are the placed 3-year-old colt Paris Lights (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}) and a yearling colt by Kingman, who have both been retained by Scarborough.

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Zarak Share to Be Offered at Arqana Online

A 1/50th share in young sire Zarak (Fr) will be offered as lot 1 in the upcoming Arqana Online January Sale. Slated for Jan. 13 from 3-5 p.m. French time, the sale also features a breeding right in Territories (Ire) (lot 2); a half-share (1/100th) in Al Wukair (Fr) (lot 3); the listed placed broodmare Becquascenthe (Fr) (Nombre Premier {GB}) (lot 4); and a trio of National Hunt horses-in-training.

His Highness The Aga Khan's Zarak was the leading first-season sire in France in 2021, and among his 18 2-year-old winners were the Group 1-placed Times Square (Fr) and Purplepay (Fr), the latter a €2-million buy in the Arqana ring who is bound for America. The son of Dubawi (Ire) and the Arc heroine Zarkava (Ire) also has Group 3 winner Lizaid (Ger). He is fully booked at €25,000 at Haras de Bonneval this term.

Territories already is the sire of G1 Prix de l'Opera heroine Rougir (Fr), who brought a sale-topping €3 million at Arqana in December. He stands at Dalham Hall Stud for £10,000 in 2022, while Al Wukair has 15 juvenile winners, so far. The Group 1 winner is priced at €8,000 at Haras de Bouquetot.

Becquascenthe, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Grande Haya (Fr) (Solid Illusion) is offered in foal to Doctor Dino (Fr).

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Group 1 Winner Var Euthanised at 23

The speedy Group 1 winner Var (Forest Wildcat-Loma Preata, by Zilzal) was euthanised in South Africa on Monday. The 23-year-old had been pensioned at Avontuur Stud since last July.

“Var was my pride and joy,” Avontuur Stud General Manager Pippa Mickleburgh told the Sporting Post. “He changed the lives of untold racing and non-racing folk both here and across the world. He was a character and a champion extraordinaire. The scars of a battle bravely fought caught up with our loyal soldier in the end. We couldn't leave him to bear the pressure and the pain on his limbs anymore and after agonising over veterinary advice, we were left with no choice. We are all devastated.”

Bred by Dr. John Eaton in Kentucky, the dark bay was a $42,000 RNA as a Keeneland November weanling that progressed to be a $120,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase. Racing in the Darley silks for trainer Bill Mott through his first 15 starts, the colt won an allowance optional claimer in January of 2004, before he was purchased privately and won Goodwood's Listed Starlit S. in September of that year for new trainer Clive Brittain and owner Mohammed Rashid. Second to The Tatling (Ire) (Perugino {Aus}) in Newbury's G3 Trophy S. later that month, he defeated his vanquisher in the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp in October. His sprinting efforts made him top of his division in the UK from five to seven furlongs a year's end.

Retired after a two-race 2005 campaign with a mark of 22-7-2-1 and $336,001 in earnings, Var became a successful sire in South Africa with his first crop eventually yielding six stakes winners. Currently, the stallion has 56 black-type winners to his credit, 30 of them at the graded level. Of those, a dozen are winners at the highest level, anchored by dual South African Horse of the Year Variety Club (SAf), a five-time Grade 1 winner. The son of French listed-placed Loma Preata earned titles as the Leading Sire of 2-Year-Olds in 2016/17 and 2017/18, and he was also a Champion Sire of Winners in 2018/19.

Added Avontuur's Michael and Philip Taberer, “Beyond the raw statistics, he captivated hearts and will live on in his place of honour at Avontuur forever. We thank every shareholder, breeder, supporter and racing fan who played a role in making him a success. What an honour it has been to be a part of a modern day fairytale.”

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