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Rio Royale - for more details see our Horses for sale section
Posted on 14 Jan 2009
This afternoon we are all very excited about TOTTIE running in the Group 1 Investec Oaks at Epsom. She may have been beaten 6L by the more fancied Midday on her seasonal reappearance in the Lingfield Oaks trial however, she was only 1/2l behind her in a Nemarket listed race at two, and appears to have come on well from her seasonal reappearance. Tottie has already won around Brighton and again handled the undulations of Lingfield well last time. She doesn’t know that she is 100-1 and we are all hopeful she can run a big race for Mr and Mrs Richmond-Watson, who also were the owner-breeders of last years winner Look Here.
There are several updates on the horses we currently have for sale.
Rio Royale won The Begbies Traynor Handicap at Salisbury on 14th May over 6f. He is due to run again this coming week.
Warning Song ran for the first time on the same day in a 5f maiden for two year olds and was a fast finishing 4th, ridden by Adam Kirby, he reported that the horse would benefit from the step up in trip to 6f and should win next time out.
Curacao has been placed in two runs to date this season and is due to run at Goodwood tomorrow.
All of the above can be viewed on the website and I would be delighted to show them to you on the gallops or at the races.
Amanda
Mark and I were delighted to have our first turf winner of the season with our first turf runner of 2009. Dubai Crest won going away at Beverley on Wednesday for Alan Spence and was well ridden by Neil Callan on his first ride for us.
Tudor Key ran a good race in defeat at Newmarket under top weight after pulling a bit too hard in the early stages of the race and Truism was beaten less than three lengths in a competitive handicap at Newbury on Friday.
This week we look to Windsor on Monday with Kings La Mont and Blue Tango, Bath on Tuesday with Saborido, Kempton on Wednesday with Curacao and later in the week, Wilfred Pickles, Silken Act and Classic Vintage having their first runs of the season.
Jim Crowley won ride of the year 2008 at last weeks “Lesters” awards. The award sponsored by the Racing Post and determined on readers votes, was awarded to Jim for his riding of Bulwark in the Totesport.com Chester Cup. He beat Darryl Holland for his ride on Tungsten Strike at Goodwood, Richard Hughes and Royston French. Well done Jim.
£10,000 bonus for Craven and Guineas Breeze Up Sale at Newmarket
This weeks Craven Breeze Up Sale took place at Tattersalls on 14th-16th April. There were 183 two year olds catalogued and for the first time at breeze up sales, this year the vendors and sales company are offering a £10,000 bonus to each 2yo sold if they win a 2yo maiden, conditions, Group or Listed race before December 2009. Similarly they will pay £5,000 to a 2yo that wins a selling, claiming or nursery handicap by December 2009. The bonus is paid out on the first win for the respective 2yo. Each horse can win no more than one bonus payment.
The prices held up well and it was hard to buy, I will however return for the Guineas Breeze Up Sale on on 30th April to 1st May where the same bonus will be on offer. I would be delighted if anyone would like to come to the sales with me or would be interested in purchasing a 2yo with a chance of winning the £10,000 bonus.
Wednesday of Cheltenham week and what a wonderful weeks racing so far. Mastermind is just being tacked up for the Queen Mother Champion Chase and so much more to look forward to. Although Cheltenham is the pinnacle of the National Hunt Season, it also signals the return of the Flat Racing Season proper with only 17 days to the start of the Turf Racing Season at Doncaster. Our team are coming on nicely and we had our first proper work morning of the year last Saturday.
Every year we run a pick a ten competition where you pick five two year olds and five older horses from the yard. It is only £10 to enter. When the details are finalised I will publish the competition and details of horses in training on the website for you to download if you wish to take part.
John Terry runs tonight at Kempton and is only 1lbs higher in the hanidcap for a good 2nd there recently. Rio Royale run on Friday at Lingfield and we have Chasca having her first run at Lingfield on Saturday and possibly Blue Tango there as well.
Inquest finished second beaten only a neck yesterday at Lingfield having looked the likely winner when Jim Crowely took the quickest route round the final turn into the straight. He was just caught on the line by the fast finishing Bombardier Wells. He now has a chance next Wednesday to register his first win, again at Lingfield.
The day started very sadly for us all at Coombelands as Dimander, who won at Lingfield for us on 31st January, died as a result of colic while being treated at The Newmarket Equine Centre. Ian Wright and his team of vets had cared for him for a fortnight but in the end were unable to save him. He was a big but very kind horse and we were looking forward to running him on the turf this season as a three year old. Our thoughs are with Lady Clague who bred and owned him together with her son Jonathan and daughter Penny.
Rio Royale has his first run of 2009 tomorrow at Lingfield. This colt is for sale and his details can be found on our website. He is trying a mile for the first time and is well drawn in stall one.
30th January 2009
Rocoppelia recorded his first win at Lingfield today for his owners John and OdileConnolly. This also gave us at Coombelands our first winner of 2009. Ridden by our in form Jockey, Jim Crowley, Rocoppelia was wearing blinkers for the first time on the racecourse. He broke well from the stalls and travelled nicely, quickening up well in the home straight to win by one and a quarter lengths. A very satisfying result for us all.
We now look forward to John Terry, who runs tomorrow at Lingfield.
Rio Royale - for more details see our Horses for sale section
With the turn of the year, it is time to reflect on our results for the 2008 season. Two hundred and ninety four runners have yielded thirty four winners and one hundred and eight placed runners.
Our older horses did us proud. Tungsten Strike won The March Listed Stakes for the second year running at Goodwood and was a very gallant 2nd in the Goodwood Cup to Yeats. Night Crescendo found his winning form in September and won two valuable handicaps at the end of the season. Camps Bay and Bandama were placed in Heritage Handicaps before Bandama gained a well deserved win at Newmarket and John Terry won in a very good time at Lingfield and was placed on many occasions. Chocolate Caramel also won two races in the first half of the season before being sold.
Of the three year olds, Midships just missed out in several big handicaps at the start of the season before winning his handicap at Newmarket. He was placed behind subsequent Royal Ascot winner Colony and in front of subsequent Breeders Cup winner Conduit. He has now joined Bobby Frankel in America to continue his racing career for Mr Abdullah and we wish him every success. Benedetto was most consistent winning three times and placed on five occasions. Other winners included dual winner Colourways, Riverscape, Celtic Dragon, Dancing Dik, Flash Of Colour and Regal Best.
The most encouraging statistic for me was the fact that we had more two year old winners, than three year olds and 56% of our two year old runners finished in the first four places. They are something to really look forward to in 2009.
Winning colts Blue Dynasty, Blue Tango, Classic Vintage, Dimander, Dubai Crest, Hurakan, Jazacosta, Supernoverre, Tudor Key and Truism will hopefully continue to improve with another winter and more time to mature further. Winning fillies Dialect, Sampi, Spanish Cygent and Tottie will be running to collect some valuable black type to enhance their breeding value.
On the jockey front, I would like to congratulate Jim Crowley who rode the majority of our winners this season. Jim finished 10th in the flat jockey’s championship this year and rode over 100 winners collecting over 1 million in prize money for his connections. We are delighted that we will have his services for the 2009 season.
We currently have 74 horses on our horses in training for 2009, details of which can be found on the horses in training section of this website. Also on the horses for sale section is a selection of two and three year olds that there are shares available for purchase. Please do take time to view this section as we have a particularly nice group of horses for sale.
Looking forward to racing this year.
The horses have been in great form recently with three of our last five runners winning. Dancing Dik, who had been unlucky in running the time before at Goodwood had no such problems this time when landing the RAB Capital Handicap at Windsor. The son of Diktat was in command in the final furlong pulling away to win by 3L. He will now hopefully defy a 6lb penalty gained for that success when he reappears at Kempton on Wednesday.
The following day Colourways was a taking winner of a 12F fillies maiden at Newbury. Very green on debut the good looking daughter of Singspiel had learnt a lot from her previous outing and produced a very professional display to win by 1 ½L. She is now likely to be upped to Listed class to try gain some all important black type.
The good run continued yesterday with Rio Royale, who ran on gamely to land the European Breeders' Fund Median Auction Maiden Stakes. It was nice for the son of Captain Rio to get his head in front having been narrowly second on two of his four previous starts. A consistent performer who is taking his racing well, he is currently for sale for £50,000 +VAT and would be a fun horse for someone to have.
Earlier this month Tudor Key ran a great race on only his second start finishing 4th in the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot. Short of room during the closing stages, which didn’t help his cause, he stayed on well to finish only 3L behind Free agent who is now as short as 25-1 for next years Derby. There remains two 10% shares available in this son of Key Of Luck which can be purchased for £3,000 + VAT.
There has recently been a major pedigree update for the Sakhee ex Bourbonella, as he is a ½ brother to the Aqlaam, who was an impressive winner of the Group 3 Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot. He may be purchased for £72,000 +VAT.
Chocolate Caramel became our 5th winner of the year by landing the High Easter Handicap Stakes at the newly opened Great Leighs on Thursday evening. Held up in touch, by stable jockey Jim Crowley, he travelled well before taking command inside the final furlong to win easily by 3L.
Flash Of Colour became our 3rd winner of the year last Saturday when losing his maiden tag in the ‘Digibet Maiden Stakes’ at Kempton Park. He travelled with the utmost ease, and quickened up nicely in the home straight to win by an eased down 4L. This was a decent performance from the son of Averti, who was following up his short-head defeat at Lingfield a week earlier.
Prior to this Bendetto followed up his win at Lingfield with another good run there. After having a troubled passage throughout the race, he stayed on well to finish third. The yard is currently in great form, with 27% of runners winning and 73% of them finishing in the first four.
John Terry became our first winner of 2008 when landing the Book Online @ lingfieldpark.co.uk Handicap at Lingfield Park on Saturday 2nd February. He battled on gamely taking the contest by a neck from the improving handicapper Wicked Daze. Who, has gone on to frank the form by winning next time. This success was made all the more impressive by the time; 2m 28.19s meant that John Terry had broken the previous track record, which had stood for 15months.
Last night Ventura ran out a wide margined winner of the Listed Hyde stakes, run at Kempton Park. Returning to the all weather for the first time since her debut as a 2yo, Ventura was always travelling with the upmost of ease before quickening up well under jockey Jim Crowley to win by an eased down 2 ½ L. This was a highly impressive performance from the daughter of Chester House, who was not only taking on the colts for the first time, but she was also the only 3yo in the field.
This success capped off a great season for Ventura, which has seen her win 3 of her 7 starts and only ever finish out of the first 2 on one occasion. She will now continue her training career with Bobby Frankel in America where I hope she will run at Group Level. At the end of her training career, she will become a valuable broodmare prospect for Prince Kahlid Abdulla’s Juddmonte Farms.
Working over 7f at Flemington’s Racetrack, it was the strongest Tungsten had worked since his Listed success at Goodwood earlier this year; he did so in a manner, which left Mark very happy with the horse.
It has also become apparent that Mark is not the only person pleased with the horse, as Tungsten has begun to attract the attention of the Australian media. With 4 separate articles appearing in the national press in as many days.
With the final declaration stage, and the arrival of Tungsten’s jockey Darryll Holland both set for this weekend, we now eagerly await the race, which is set to be run at 4a.m GMT.
Mark pictured riding Tungsten in an Australian National Newspaper
After a 33hour door to door journey Tungsten Strike arrived in Melbourne early this morning (2nd October) ahead of his engagement in the Melbourne Cup on the 6th November. Tungsten has spent the last 2weeks in quarantine prior to being allowed to travel to Australia. Fortunately the facilities we have on offer ensured that it could be done here at Coombelands. Now there he will be based at Sandown’s quarantine facility located near to Melbourne, along with the Luca Cumani trained Purple Moon.
Tungsten Strike all set for his travels along with his groom Alan Morris and Owners John Connolly & Odile Griffith
We have recently had a very busy time purchasing yearlings at the sales in both Doncaster and Keeneland. So far we have purchased 14 horses, 4 from the Doncaster St Leger Yearling Sale and 10 from the Keeneland September Yearling sale, all by a variety of top class stallions. Please find below details of yearlings we have for sale.
Doncaster Purchases:
An April 18th colt by Key of luck out of Anne Boleyn. Key of Luck won six races over trips varying from 5f – 1m2f which, included the Prix d’Arenberg Gr.3 as well as being placed in the Gr1 Pimlico Special H’cap. He is the sire of 295 winners to date including the Classic winning Alamshar. The dam Anne Boleyn is a half sister to Annus Mirabilis who is a multiple Group winning filly. This colt is available to be purchased either for £25,000 +VAT or in shares priced accordingly. He is qualified for the £300,000 St Leger Yearling race, to be run at York’s Ebor Meeting in 2008.
A March 23rd Colt by Cadeaux Genereux out Living Daylights. Cadeaux Genereux was a multiple Gr1 winner from 5-7f, winning both the Gr1 July Cup and the Gr1 Sprint Championship. He is the sire of Bahamian Bounty and Major Cadeaux as well as 1366 winners to date. The dam Living Daylights won 2 races. This colt can be purchased for £36,000 +VAT or in shares priced accordingly, and is also eligible to run in the £300,000 St Leger Yearling race.
Keeneland Purchases:
An April 13th colt by Silver Deputy out of Starry Ferrari. Silver Deputy, by Deputy Minister has been a leading sire of 16 crops of racing age 529 winners including 70 stakes winners and 7champions, as well as the Breeders Cup winner Silverbulletday. The dam Starry Ferrari has a Timeform rating of 83 and has had 4 winners from 4runners to date, including the Stakes winner and Gr1 placed Musique Toujours. A 1/3 share is available in this colt for £24,500 +VAT this price includes all sales costs and transporting the horse back to Coombelands.
A February 14th colt by Dixieland Band out of Dance With Del. Dixieland Band, by Northern Dancer has been a leading sire with 20crops of racing age 710 winners including 109 Stakes winners. The dam Dance with Del had a timeform rating of 106 and has had 5winners from 5 horses to race, the most notable being the Stakes placed Dyna Del. This Colt can be purchased for £91,000 +VAT or is also available in parts. This price includes all sales costs and transporting the horse back to Coombelands.
If you are interested in any of the above horses, or you would like Amanda to purchase on your behalf at the forthcoming yearling sales then do not hesitate to contact us on:
Last Saturday Tungsten Strike defied a 5lb penalty that he had earned for his previous Group 2 and 3 successes, to take the Listed March Stakes at Goodwood by 6L. With this increasing his total prize fund to just under £218,000.
He now will be heading out to Australia for the prestigious Melbourne Cup, while we eagerly await the weights to come out. For a race that stops a nation.
After all the wet weather of this summer, last week we were treated to a splendid spell of sunshine and a great weeks racing at Glorious Goodwood.
The highlight of the week for Mark and I was Coasting's 4L success in the Royal & SunAlliance Nursery. Ridden by Jim Crowley in what was his first success at Glorious Goodwood since converting to the flat from the national hunt. It also proved to be a first success there for Coasting's owners Sir John Ritblat and Sir David and Jennifer Sieff, whom were all in attendance for the great win. Coasting will now head for the Shergar Cup Juvenile Nursery this Saturday.
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We are now coming up to a busy time of year, with runners nearly every day along with the yearling sales which, will be starting shortly.
Mark and I are delighted that our horses are running so well at present. Seven wins in May, including our first two year old winner of the season in Coasting at Newbury, together with some decent placed efforts, made for a very pleasing month.
Our two runners in The Henry II Stakes at Sandown last week did not enjoy the soft ground. Bulwark faired best with a very respectable third placing and Tungsten Strike not far behind in fifth. They have both come out of the race well and are on target for some faster ground at Ascot in The Gold Cup.
June started well with a big handicap win at Epsom on Derby day for Nosferatu, ridden by my brother in law, Jim Crowley. Nosferatu now heads for The Northumberland Plate at the end of June and Jim continues to ride in fine form with 11 winners in the last ten days, including a Group winner and two doubles. Owner Lady Clague who bred Nosferatu at Newberry Stud in Ireland has five horses with us. Nosferatu has now won both his starts this season, as has Intiquilla, a half sister to Bandama, who has been placed twice and now heads to the Duke Of Edinburgh Handicap at Royal Ascot. Many congratulations to her, her family and stud manager Pat Murtagh for their winners to date.
We are coming up to a busy weekend, three runners today, four tomorrow at Goodwood and ten runners on Saturday.There is a small respite on Monday and Tuesday next week before another busy end to the week and then straight into Royal Ascot week. Our confirmed runners for Ascot are as follows, with hopefully some to join the team after their runs this week:
Tuesday: The Coventry Stakes - Coasting
Wednesday: The Hunt Cup - Night Crescendo
Thursday: The Gold Cup - Bulwark and Tungsten Strike, The King George V Handicap - Intiquilla, The Brittania Handicap - Jo'burg
Friday: The Wolferton Stakes - Bandama
Saturday: The Duke Of Edinburgh Handicap - Bandama and John Terry
Our horses have been in great form on the racetrack in the last four weeks. Seven winners including The Group 3 Sagaro Stakes at Ascot with Tungsten Strike. Our first two year old winner at Newbury with Coasting. Three fillies breaking their maidens, enhancing their broodmare potential and Nosferatu continuing to build on his reputation as a decent staying prospect for the season. We have also had ten placed runners including Bulwark's personal best effort to date in finishing a close up third to Sergent Cecil in the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup at York.
Next week we look foward to the Henry II Stakes at Sandown in which we have both Tungsten Strike and Bulwark entered and several two year old runners making their debuts as well at The Vodafone Derby meeting at Epsom.
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Tungsten Strike led from start to finish to win the Woodcote Stud Sagaro Stakes at Ascot. The son of Smart Strike out of Bathilde, bred by Willie Carson, never looked like relinquishing the lead.
Amanda Perrett said: "Maybe a year on and stronger he will come back and get the Gold Cup trip this year. Last year he was not quite strong enough to get home. He has done nothing but improve as he was rated 66 when he started his three-year-old career."
