From Juddmonte's website: FRANKEL SET FOR OUTSTANDING LINE UP OF MARES ________________________________________ FRANKEL will start his new career as a stallion later this week and Juddmonte has released more details of the champion racehorseâs book of mares for 2013. FRANKEL, who won all 14 of his races, will be visited by an outstanding line-up of mares, including around 60 that have either won a Gr.1, produced a Gr.1 winner â or both. In addition to the high class mares already mentioned in the press, FRANKEL's book includes several dams of European Classic winners, including Flirtation (dam of English and Irish 1000 Guineas winner Attraction), Honorine (dam of Irish Derby winner Treasure Beach), Lady Vettori (dam of French 2000 Guineas and French Derby winner Lope de Vega), Maycocks Bay (dam of dual Oaks winner Sariska), Musical Treat (dam of English and Irish 1000 Guineas winner Finsceal Beo), Quest To Peak (dam of English and French 1000 Guineas winner Special Duty), Soignee (dam of French Oaks winner Stacelita), Waldmark (dam of St Leger winner Masked Marvel) and Zomaradah (dam of Irish 2000 Guineas winner Dubawi). Juddmonte Farms general manager Philip Mitchell commented: âHis book of mares is as one would hope and expect for âthe best racehorse everâ. We are most grateful to all the Breeders in Europe, America and Japan, who have put their faith in FRANKEL and as a result we have one of the most impressive books of mares that a first season sire has received.â Group/Grade 1 winners and producers confirmed to date: AFRICAN ROSE Won Sprint Cup Gr.1 ALBANOVA Won Preis von Europa Gr.1, Deutschland Preis Gr.1 and Rheinland Pokal Gr.1; sister to ALBORADA, winner of Champion Stakes Gr.1 ALEXANDER GOLDRUN Champion Older Mare in Ireland 2005, won Nassau Stakes Gr.1, Pretty Polly Stakes Gr.1 (twice), Prix de l'Opera Casino Barriere Enghien Gr.1 and Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup Gr.1 ALWAJEEHA Won Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes Gr.1 ARRIVE Broodmare of the Year in Great Britain 2008, dam of PROMISING LEAD, winner of Pretty Polly Stakes Gr.1 ASPIRING DIVA Dam of EMULOUS, winner of Matron Stakes Gr.1 BALANCE Won Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap Gr.1, Santa Anita Oaks Gr.1, Las Virgenes Stakes Gr.1); half sister to ZENYATTA (Champion Older Mare in USA 2008, 2009, 2010) BINCHE Broodmare of the Year in Great Britain 2010; dam of PROVISO, winner of Diana Stakes Gr.1, Frank E Kilroe Mile Handicap Gr.1, Just a Game Stakes Gr.1 and First Lady Stakes Gr.1; also dam of BYWORD, winner of Prince of Wales Stakes Gr.1 CLEPSYDRA Dam of PASSAGE OF TIME, winner of Criterium de St Cloud Gr.1; also dam of TIMEPIECE, winner of Falmouth Stakes Gr.1 DANCING RAIN Won Epsom Oaks Gr.1 and Henkel Preis der Diana Gr.1 DANEDREAM Won King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes Gr.1, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Gr.1, Grosser Preis von Baden Gr.1 (twice) and Grosser Preis von Berlin Gr.1 DAR RE MI Won Pretty Polly Stakes Gr.1, Yorkshire Oaks Gr.1 and Dubai Sheema Classic Gr.1 DIARY Dam of TOTAL GALLERY, winner of Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp Gr.1 DIVINE PROPORTIONS Champion 2YO Filly in Europe 2004, won Prix Marcel Boussac Gr.1, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches Gr.1, Prix d'Astarte Gr.1, Prix de Diane Gr.1 and Prix Morny Gr.1 DYNAFORCE Won Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Gr.1 and Beverly D Stakes Gr.1 EDEN'S CAUSEWAY Dam of EDEN'S MOON, winner of Las Virgenes Stakes Gr.1 EDEN'S MOON Won Las Virgenes Stakes Gr.1 EMULOUS Won Matron Stakes Gr.1 ETOILE MONTANTE Won Prix de la Foret Gr.1 FALLEN STAR Dam of FALLEN FOR YOU, winner of Coronation Stakes Gr.1 FLIRTATION Dam of ATTRACTION, winner of Coronation Stakes Gr.1, Irish 1000 Guineas Gr.1, 1000 Guineas (Group 1), Sun Chariot Stakes (Group 1) and Matron Stakes Gr.1 GIOFRA Won Falmouth Stakes Gr.1 HEAT HAZE Won Matriarch Stakes Gr.1 and Beverly D Stakes Gr.1 HONORINE Dam of TREASURE BEACH, Champion 3YO Colt in Ireland 2011, winner of Irish Derby Gr.1 and Secretariat Stakes Gr.1 HURRY HOME HILLARY Dam of BELLAMY ROAD, winner of Wood Memorial Stakes Gr.1 ICON PROJECT Won Personal Ensign Stakes Gr.1 IN LINGERIE Won Spinster Stakes Gr.1 LADY VETTORI Dam of LOPE DE VEGA, winner of Poule d'Essai des Poulains Gr.1 and Prix du Jockey Club Gr.1 LAHALEEB Won E P Taylor Stakes Gr.1 LAHUDOOD Won Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Gr.1 and Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf Gr.1 LIGHTENING PEARL Won Cheveley Park Stakes Gr.1 MAYCOCKS BAY Dam of SARISKA (Champion 3YO Filly in Europe 2009), winner of Irish Oaks Gr.1 and Epsom Oaks Gr.1 MI SUENO Won Del Mar Debutante Stakes Gr.1 MIDDAY Won Breeders' Cup Fillies and Mare Turf Gr.1, Naussau Stakes Gr.1 (three times), Yorkshire Oaks Gr.1 and Prix Vermeille Gr.1 MIDSUMMER Dam of MIDDAY, winner of Breeders' Cup Fillies and Mare Turf Gr.1, Nassau Stakes Gr.1 (three times), Yorkshire Oaks Gr.1 and Prix Vermeille Gr.1 MISS KELLER Won EP Taylor Stakes Gr.1 NEBRASKA TORNADO Won Prix de Diane Gr.1 and Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Gr.1 MODEL QUEEN Dam of REGAL PARADE, winner of Haydock Sprint Cup Gr.1 MUSICAL TREAT Dam of FINSCEAL BEO (Champion 2YO Filly in Europe 2006), winner of Irish 1000 Guineas Gr.1, 1000 Guineas Gr.1 and Prix Marcel Boussac Gr.1 OATSEE Broodmare of the Year in USA, dam of SHACKLEFORD, winner of Metropolitan Handicap Gr.1, Preakness Stakes Gr.1 and Clark Handicap Gr.1; also dam of LADY JOANNE, winner of Alabama Stakes Gr.1 PENNE Dam of MEANDRE, winner of Grand Prix de Paris Gr.1, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Gr.1 and Grosser Preis von Berlin Gr.1 PROPORTIONAL Won Prix Marcel Boussac Gr.1 QUEEN'S LOGIC Champion 2YO Filly in Europe 2001, won Cheveley Park Stakes Gr.1 QUEST TO PEAK Dam of SPECIAL DUTY, winner of 1000 Guineas Gr.1, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches Gr.1 and Cheveley Park Stakes Gr.1 RED BLOOM Won Fillies' Mile Gr.1 ROSE OF SUMMER Dam of LARAGH, winner of Hollywood Starlet Stakes Gr.1 SOIGNEE Dam of STACELITA (Champion 3YO Filly in France 2009), winner of Prix de Diane Gr.1, Prix Saint-Alary Gr.1, Prix Vermeille Gr.1, Prix Jean Romanet Gr.1, Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Gr.1 and Beverly D Stakes Gr.1 STACELITA Champion 3YO Filly in France 2009, won Prix de Diane Gr.1, Prix Saint-Alary Gr.1, Prix Vermeille Gr.1, Prix Jean Romanet Gr.1, Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Gr.1 and Beverly D Stakes Gr.1 STRAIGHT LASS Dam of NAAQOOS, winner of Prix Jean Luc Lagardere Gr.1 TARIYSHA Dam of ARCANO, winner of Prix Morny Gr.1 TAROCCHI Dam of PRICE TAG, winner of Matriarch Stakes Gr.1 TIMEPIECE Won Falmouth Stakes Gr.1 VODKA Champion 2YO Filly in Japan 2006, Champion Older Mare in Japan 2008 & 2009, won Autumn Emperor's Cup Gr.1, Japan Cup Gr.1, Yasuda Kinen Gr.1 (twice) and Victoria Mile Gr.1 WALDMARK Dam of MASKED MARVEL (Champion 3YO Stayer in Europe 2011), winner of St Leger Stakes Gr.1 ZAGORA Won Diana Stakes Gr.1 and Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf Gr.1 ZEE ZEE TOP Won Prix de l'Opera Gr.1; dam of IZZI TOP, winner of Pretty Polly Stakes Gr.1 ZOMARADAH Champion 3YO in Italy 1998, Champion Older Mare in Italy 1999, won Oaks d'Italia Gr.1; dam of DUBAWI, Top Rated 3YO Miler in Ireland & France 2005, winner of Irish 2000 Guineas Gr.1, National Stakes Gr.1 and Prix Jacques Le Marois Gr.1
Today's is the official start of the covering season. Unfortunately we start with the sad news that US Horse of the Year RACHEL ALEXANDRA is in serious condition following surgery after complications arose following the birth of her Bernardini filly on Tuesday. The foal has been moved to a foster mare. Fingers crossed RA pulls through.
Some notable foalings being reported from Darley Portmanteau produced a full-brother to Hunter’s Light. She returns again to Dubawi Playful Act produced a colt foal by Shamardal. She is due to visit Dubawi Rachelle produced a half-brother by Exceed And Excel to G1-winner Amadeus Wolf. She will visit New Approach next
So far the only Darley mare I've seen for Frankel is Zomaradah - dam of Dubawi. Queen's Logic is owned by Rabbah Bloodstock which is basically an extension of Darley and she is also booked to him.
LIGHTENING PEARL Won Cheveley Park Stakes Gr.1 If the foal is a male then we have the name... Fast Frank...!!!
Interesting, couldn't get more or didn't want to support a rival stallion too much? Which non-Darley stallions have Darley gone to most this time round or is it pretty much all in house?
With all this horse meat saga going on in the news at the moment i would just like to know what this 'Bute' drug actually dos for the horse...? Is it just a painkiller as ive read or is it used for a more specific pain/reason...?
Only 60 of the 135 mares booked to Frankel have been named so far, so I suspect there will be other Darley mares. We won't know full details until they are published in November/December in the Return of Mares. Bute is a very common painkiller for horses. It is often given to horses with arthiritis of some form - I remember many of the riding school ponies I knew as a child seemed to receive a small dose of Bute on a daily basis, usually in a powder form mixed into their feed.
I've just found the following blog on the Racing Post Bloodstock page: From Syria to Frankel - 308 years to perfection In the year 1700 a horse is born in Syria. Four years later Thomas Darley buys the Arabian horse. He is shipped to Yorkshire and the unraced horse starts covering mares in 1705. In time he will be known as the Darley Arabian. Together with the Goldolphin Arabian and Byerley Turk they are to be called the âfoundation sires' of the thoroughbred. Sixty-four years later a horse is born (1764). He is a great-great-grandson of the Darley Arabian and his dam is a granddaughter of the Godolphin Arabian. He will be named Eclipse and walks 1,400 miles to race meetings across England to win all of his 18 races. He becomes a very influential sire because 250 years later 95 per cent of all living thoroughbreds can be traced back to Eclipse. Fast forward 149 years and 13 generations of Eclipse descendants and another horse is born (1913). Owned and bred by the 17th Earl of Derby he is named Phalaris. Due to the restrictions of World War One he will only race at Newmarket, where he goes on to win 16 of his 24 starts including two renewals of the Champion Stakes. Forty eight years and another four generations later, a horse is born (1961) in Canada. They will name him Northern Dancer. He goes on to win the Kentucky Derby in record time (until a certain Secretariat breaks it nine years later) before embarking on a hugely successful stud career that sees him command a stud fee of $1,000,000. Northern Dancer becomes North America's most successful stallion of the 20th century, siring 147 stakes winners including three Derby winners: Nijinsky, Secreto and The Minstrel. Like Northern Dancer himself, all three are bred by E.P. Taylor and all three are trained at Ballydoyle in Ireland. Twenty years later, yet another horse is born (1981). He's by the great Northern Dancer himself and his owner-breeder names him after a famous dance theatre in London - Sadler's Wells. Born in America, he is brought back to Ireland where he is trained at Ballydoyle by the great Vincent O'Brien. Sadler's Wells wins the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes (yes, the Eclipse) and the Irish Champion Stakes. After his race career Sadler's Wells is retired to Coolmore Stud. His first crop of foals in 1986 includes Breeders' Cup Turf winner In The Wings and Irish Derby winner Old Vic - both for owner Sheikh Mohammed. Sadler's Wells goes on to produce a total of 294 stakes winners. Skip seventeen years. A horse is born (1998). They call the bay colt Galileo. He wins the Epsom and Irish Derby as well as the King George. Galileo takes up stud duties in 2002 and is an immediate success. Eight years after his first crop Galileo has sired 126 stakes winners including 31 individual Group 1 winners. Three hundred and eight years after the Darley Arabian and 23 generations of sires later, a son of Galileo is born. They call him Frankel.
Juddmonte have announced that Midday will be the first mare covered by Frankel Breed the best to the best, and hope for the best!
pN I thought Bute's use in the training of racehorses was more widespread than you mention. In more than a couple of books I've read that "he was impossible to train because he was ' this, that or the other' and so he was given Bute". Basically it is an anti-inflammatory drug but is not a steroid by any means. (It just removes pain and I'm sure there's a few on this forum who use a human equivalent: Bute is not used for humans because it causes anemia). I recall that a colt of the Queen's was mentioned in one book as being trained on Bute, and I believe Rock Roi was disqualified after winning his first 'disqualified' Ascot Gold Cup for traces of Bute. I thought the important thing about Bute was that you could use it up to so many days before a horse raced, but if you went too close to the race that the drug could be detected and so the horse was deemed to be running under the effects of the drug. It was not illegal to give a racehorse Bute but it was illegal to have traces of the drug in the animal on raceday. Maybe the laws have changed and Bute has been made totally illegal to use in the training of racehorses. I don't know but I hadn't heard that it had been made illegal. I'll not go into the rights and wrongs of using Bute, that's another question altogether.
I didn't see any Aga Khan mares amongst the initial Frankel harem. Then again I may not be able to identify them. With his love of Never Bend blood and it being so strong in his mares, I'd have thought Frankel would appeal to him as having not one strand of Never Bend blood in his pedigree.
Bute is not illegal and a lot of racehorses are given it, but as you say there is a withdrawal time before a race. Having not worked in a racing yard I can't comment on how widespread the use is, but I do know plenty of "regular" horses that receive a daily dose. I imagine the Aga Khan will send a few mares to Frankel. I'll look again at the list to see if I recognise any names amongst the 60 that have been released.
TARIYSHA was certainly bred by the Aga Khan and trained by John Oxx, though unraced. I can't find a record of her being sold at public auction, but I think she has changed hands as her progeny have been listed as bred by the Yellow Bird Syndicate.
