Sadler's Wells

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Stumbled across this site last night which I thought could prove handy while his offspring look set to dominate the stallion charts....

SADLER'S WELLS

b - 1981 - Northern Dancer (Can) - Fairy Bridge (USA)

Sadler's Wells won six of his eleven starts from 7f to 10f including the Group 1 Airlie -Coolmore Irish 2000 Guineas, Coral Eclipse Stakes and Phoenix Champion Stakes. He was second in the Group 1 Prix Du Jockey Club and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes

Under normal circumstances Sadler's Wells would be remembered as the high-class racehorse that his form merited but his place in history was to change as he went on to become a phenomenon in the breeding world of Europe, expressing a degree of dominance unmatched by even the likes of Hyperion.



Portrait of Sadler's Wells reproduced with kind permision of
Lisa Miller Equestrian Art.

WHO'S THE DADDY?

At Coolmore Stud Sadler's Wells career as a sire has produced 254 individual Stakes winners - 70 individual Group 1 winners - 22 individual Classic winners - 21 Group 1 winning 2-y-o's - 14 sire titles in Great Britain & Ireland.

And a whole lot more:
http://www.famousracehorses.co.uk/Swells/swells.htm

They are even asking for memories...

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Interesting young chaser that Synchronised, adding a Midlands National to his CV!

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Bit of a strong comment on Channel 4 yesterday by Jim McGrath, he reckons Galileo could turn out every bit as good as his sire, Sadler's Wells, as a stallion....

Mind you, a few more like Frankel and he could be right

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Interesting young chaser that Synchronised, adding a Midlands National to his CV!

Er, and a Welsh National.....

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Can this be moved to the Horse to Follow thread plz?

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Can this be moved to the Horse to Follow thread plz?

Done

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Done

If it's you doing the moving Mathare - would you mind moving this one plz?
http://www.win2win.co.uk/forum/showt...-Nick-Williams to this thread too, tavm in advance?

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Owzat?

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Owzat?

Non comprendez?

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Has had a couple of winners lately that could prove worth following:

Ruler Of All (Ire) - won a hot little race in Ireland over the weekend & yesterday

Veiled, a mare with Nicky Henderson who was with M Prescott on the flat, she's won a third of all her starts & I can see her present trainer going for some black type.

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Has had a couple of winners lately that could prove worth following:

Veiled, a mare with Nicky Henderson who was with M Prescott on the flat, she's won a third of all her starts & I can see her present trainer going for some black type.

Crikey, was that only 2 months ago?

anyway - the figs she clocked yesterday over 14g Newmarket suggest to me that she could be better than Listed class & what with Newm being a specialist track & the trainer's recent record of 4 from 8 including Veiled....

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Wells Lyrical, another winner yesterday -

Got a little list here of the majority of his final crop & a few older horses he still has in training -

I'll try & edit in age/sex/trainer in due course -

A/S HORSE DAM DAM'S SIRE TRNR

Acropolis Pennine Walk

Affinity Soviet Star

3y f All My Heart - Alba Stella (Nashwan (USA) (10.0f)) Prescott Mark - just clocked (3rd/8 10/1 14s Sand Jul 11) 79 fr 68 so can be considered well h'capped > >

3y f Armoise — Di Moi Oui (Warning (8.8f)) Botti Marco (Smart filly that trnr likes a lot & thinks will do well with, intelligent & bred for 10f in time)

Authinger Alleged

4y g Bombadero (Ire) — Fantasy Girl (IRE) (Marju (IRE) (9.2f)) Cullen Denis W(Ire)

Book Of Music Darshaan

Bravo Bravo Shirley Heights

8y g Bremen — Anka Germania (Malinowski (USA) (8.9f)) Paul W Flynn (Ire)

Bullet Train Danehill

Changing Skies Silver Hawk

Claremont Darshaan

Doctor Fremantle Rainbow Quest

Dr Faustus Rainbow Quest

3y c End Or Beginning — Smart ´n Noble (USA) (Smarten (USA) (10.8f)) Cole Paul
Fantasia Darshaan

7y g Factotum — Gift Of The Night (USA) (Slewpy (USA)) O'Neill Jonjo

First Battalion Nashwan

8y g Font - River Saint (USA) (Irish River (FR ) (9.3f)) Hill Lawney

4y f Fontley - Horatia (Ire) Machiavellian(9.2f) Johnson Houghton Eve - Another Black Type candidate, ran a fair 2nd in such Jul 11 -

3y f Fountain Of Honour (Ire) - Belle Of Honour (USA) Honour And Glory (USA) Stack T(Ire)

Front Rank Alzao

Gandalf Lion Cavern

Hindu Kush Darshaan

Hunting Tower Machiavellian

4y g Icon Dream (Ire) - Silver Skates Slip Anchor Simcock David

9y g Jubilant Note (Ire) - Hint Of Humour (USA) (Woodman (USA) (10.0f)) Elliott Gordon(Ire)

King In Waiting Dancing Brave

4y f Kitty Wells - Kithanga Darshaan Cumani L

Lady Lavagna General Assembly

Leitmotiv Mtoto

3y g Light Well (Ire) - L´Ancresse (IRE) (Darshaan (11.7f)) Gosden John
Lure of The Night Darshaan

8y g Magicalmysterytour (USA) - Jude Darshaan Musson Willie - 12/1 placed Jun 25th 2011 & on a winning mark [82] when gets a bit of cut -

Make My Heart Sing Shirley Heights

Man Of God Darshaan

Marching Time Gone West

3y f Marie Rose — Langoustine (AUS) (Danehill (USA) (9.1f)) Meehan Brian

Mellon Martini Dynaformer

7y h Mores Wells — Endorsement (Warning (8.8f)) Delzangles M (Fr)

6y g Natural High (Ire) — Cool Clarity (IRE) (Indian Ridge (7.8f)) Weld D K(Ire)

Pagan Warrior Irish River

Plymouth Rock Kahyasi

Pouvoir Absolu Nureyev

7y g Praxiteles (Ire) — Hellenic (Darshaan (11.7f)) Curtis Rebecca 11/8f won the classiest race on Ffos Las card Jul 11 in a manner to suggest he's not finished yet!

6y g Prospect Wells (Fr) - Brooklyn's Dance (Fr) Shirley Heights Gr1 placed on flat wins FTO for P Nicholls 11/4 Oct 11 -

Rain Forest Shirley Heights

River Dragon Darshaan

5y g Run With The Wind (Ire) — Race The Wild Wind (USA) (Sunny´s Halo (CAN) (11.8f)) Hourigan Michael(Ire) - probably go hurdling after 33/1 Sep 11 flat win?

Ryton Runner Darshaan

3y c Saddler´s Rock (Ire) — Grecian Bride (IRE) (Groom Dancer (USA) (10.0f)) Oxx John M (Ire) Wins his maiden 12/1 as stable 2nd string Jun 11 - "strode clear like a decent staying handicapper inside the last furlong or so. He spreadeagled them and it was a smart display - rpa Jul 11 - "

4y g Sadler's Mark — Waldmark (GER) (Mark Of Esteem (IRE) (8.6f)) McLoughlin D A(Ire) - 16/1 winner of Down Royal h'cap 10g July 11 -

Sadler´s Risk Dynaformer

7y g Saloon - Fire The Groom Blushing Groom Chapple-Hyam Jane

Samarkand Indian Ridge

Scriptwriter Shirley Heights

4y f Sense Of Pride — Bonash (Rainbow Quest (USA) (11.2f)) Gosden John

3y c Sheniyan (Ire) - Shemaya (Ire) Darshaan Royer-Dupre A De(Fr) owned by Aga Khan

Sight Unseen Quest For Fame

5y g Sizing Symphony (Ire) — Amberina (IRE) (Bob Back (USA) (12.3f)) Bromhead Henry de(Ire) - Quickly clear to win mdn Jul 11 only 4th life start?

Snape Maltings Hernando

Sublime Talent Alleged

Sweetest Of Peas Darshaan

Talenti Mtoto

3y f Tantalising - Bluffing (Ire) Darshaan Wachman David (Ire)

5y g The Bull Hayes (Ire) — No Review (USA) (Nodouble (USA) (10.3f)) Harrington Mrs John(Ire) Wins 5/1 & XoM (std +2.90s & 11lb clr) 133+me 28dys 17gss Kill Aug 11 -

7y g The Ethioian (Ire) — Kasora (IRE) (Darshaan (11.7f)) Roche C(Ire)

5y g Thespis Of Icaria (Ire) - Hellenic Darshaan Curtis Rebecca

Tinseltown Lion Cavern

Total Command Selkirk

Train Of Thought Indian Ridge

4y f Tupelo Honey (Ire) - Mora Bai (Ire) Indian Ridge O'Brien Charles (Ire) 6/1 winner in the soft 10f Navan Oct 11

4y f Unity (Ire) - Moments Of Joy Darshaan Wachman David(Ire)

3y c Vasily - Red Bloom (Selkirk) Eddery Robert - won Oct 3rd start 20/1

5 m Veiled - Evasive Quality (Fr) Highest Honor (Fr) Henderson Nicky
Vivre Libre Peintre Celebre

5y g War (Ire) — Moneefa (Darshaan (11.7f)) Nash J A(Ire)

3y g Wayward Glance - Daring Aim Daylami Bell Michael

6y g Wells Lyrical - Lyrical Shirley Heights Smart Bryan

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Crikey - there was me thinking I could almost put the feet up while all these donkeys run around prior to Ascot, only to find I seem to have missed the French Derby meet & come across something interesting -

[by the way I'm glad I didn't get over-excited about Kitty Wells running today, too short by far for one so far down the ratings scale but]

I have emboldened above those dam-sires where Sadler's Wells has won most money & those with whom he has a better win to run strike rate with.

I suppose I'm mental but for me little things like this is what makes horse racing the infinite science that it surely is -

This is the Racing Post Breeding Analysis for the French Derby:

BREEDING ANALYSIS: "Thirty-three years after Fair Salinia won the Epsom and Irish Oaks her owner Sven Hanson is still reaping the rewards from her at stud. He bred 1,000 Guineas fourth Perfect Circle and Prix Quincey winner Perfect Vintage from her plus the Sadler´s Wells mare On Fair Stage, winner of the Listed Ruby Stakes over 1m at Tralee. On Fair Stage has produced 1m4f Listed winner Gale Force, high-class chaser French Opera and now Reliable Man.

Reliable Man is the fourth Group 1 winner for Dalakhani, winner of the Prix du Jockey Club over 1m4f and the Arc, and the third of those out of a Sadler´s Wells mare. The other two, Conduit and Moonstone, also won Classics.

Considering the potency of the Sadler´s Wells-Darshaan cross, it was inevitable that one of Darshaan´s best sons, Dalakhani, would receive plenty of Sadler´s Wells mares to produce a reverse of the nick. It is also responsible for Group 3 winners Deem and Shreyas and Listed scorer Yahrab."

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Got two in the same race today 4.30 Donc & I wouldn't want to begrudge the queen another winner with Wayward Glance who is my most clear top-rated at the meet but he's not the only one to let the form down from the race where he earned his estimate - I prefer the John Gosden first-time-out, Light Well over him.

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Had a pretty good day last Friday @ Limerick with a place & a win from 2 runners -

Unity, should be up to a Listed race

& Natural High, a 6yo who has won 4 of his 9 starts, is on course for Galway where he has a pretty good record - 133 - the win came in a bumper & he's set to go hurdling now.

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Just found this nice article on the old boy:

Tribute to Sadler’s Wells

Reflections on the career of the great stallion, who died on April 26, 2011, aged 30

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Staff writer

Thirty years ago, if an owner or trainer wished to give himself the best chance of buying a yearling with genuine pretensions to winning the Derby, he was obliged to head to Kentucky for the Keeneland July Sale. While Britain was still home to a handful of established owner/breeders’ studs which collectively produced a few Classic prospects each year, the world’s best stallions were located in Kentucky, and the American yearling sales were thus the place where Europeans might find their Classic prospects.

Those days now seem a lifetime away. That is, of course, because they are a lifetime away: Sadler’s Wells’s lifetime. And it was largely the achievements of Sadler’s Wells during his glorious 30-year life which made the difference.

Sadler’s Wells, who died at his home at Coolmore Stud on April 26, almost single-handedly repaired the damage which had been done to Europe’s stallion ranks by the decades which had seen the pick of Europe’s Classic colts and stallions exported westwards. What the great Anglophile Paul Mellon had started when steering Mill Reef towards the British National Stud, Sadler’s Wells completed: the leading studs of Britain and Ireland are once more the home of the Classic racehorse.

More:
http://www.ownerbreeder.co.uk/2011/0...sadlers-wells/

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Today's conundrum:

7.50 Tipp

I got Calima as clear top-tated but so far they've not been doing too well at the course and the stable have a 2nd-string who is sired by Sadler's Wells in Sadler's Rock - who is tongue-strapped first time and has a jockey on board who has a better strike-rate with the trainer too but both jockey's have poor records at the course.

If you limit it to trainer/race type & dist - trainer/jockey - sire going & distance stats, then Sadler's Rock could be worth an EW interest?

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If you limit it to trainer/race type & dist - trainer/jockey - sire going & distance stats, then Sadler's Rock could be worth an EW interest?

12/1 Winner

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Sense Of Pride in the 3.35 Salis gets the Racing Post Nap and is presently favourite but can she live with my clear top rated Trovare at a course where they do so well? Hard call -

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Today's conundrum:

7.50 Tipp

I got Calima as clear top-tated but so far they've not been doing too well at the course and the stable have a 2nd-string who is sired by Sadler's Wells in Sadler's Rock - who is tongue-strapped first time and has a jockey on board who has a better strike-rate with the trainer too but both jockey's have poor records at the course.

If you limit it to trainer/race type & dist - trainer/jockey - sire going & distance stats, then Sadler's Rock could be worth an EW interest?

Both the above won yesterday @ Leopardstown but it was the 3yo Sadler's Well's colt, Sadler's Rock who clocked 'time of the meet' & has to go down as the next Veiled - or the next to step up to much better class imho

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Trainer unleashed a few fresh winners this time last year & 3y f Armoise — Di Moi Oui (Warning (8.8f)) Botti Marco (Smart filly that trnr likes a lot & thinks will do well with, intelligent & bred for 10f in time) - if the rain that's happening here gets there by 4.05 Newmj, 15/2 possible EW shot me thinks....

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Messed up today - didn't even notice The Bull Hayes who was my 2nd top rated as totally sidetracked by the 20lb Clear Top Rated Coscorrig (who went off too fast for his own good) - clocked the fastest time at Killarney all week on the worst ground so don't think he's finished yet & being only 5 there should be more to come

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Wells Lyrical, another winner yesterday -

Got a little list here of the majority of his final crop & a few older horses he still has in training -

3y f All My Heart - Alba Stella (Nashwan (USA) (10.0f)) Prescott Mark - just clocked (3rd/8 10/1 14s Sand Jul 11) 79 fr 68 so can be considered well h'capped > >

Balls'd up again today -

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I've had to add another one, today's winner at Uttoxeter, Thespis Of Icaria [couple of years ago on breeding wouldn't have looked out of place lining up for the Arc!] to main list, won two from two starts & interesting recruit!

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If I just pop:

http://bloodstock.racingpost.com/sta...orse_id=463975

This here, a link to entries (& no need to be a subscriber) but just noticed one, a lightly raced 3yo maiden filly entered up for 5 races in the next few days & who I haven't got listed above either:

Rose Of Sarratt -

That link should help me keep on the ball -

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Both the above won yesterday @ Leopardstown but it was the 3yo Sadler's Well's colt, Sadler's Rock who clocked 'time of the meet' & has to go down as the next Veiled - or the next to step up to much better class imho

Another fast time today too!

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Got a few runners today:

2:15 Bath Cl5 2K Vasily (GB) 3-y-o,

4:25 Curragh 8K The Ethiopian (IRE) 7-y-o, m

4:25 Curragh 8K Bombadero (IRE) 4-y-o, m

4:30 Bath Cl5 2K Rose Of Sarratt (IRE) 3-y-o, m

4:55 Curragh 25K Natural High (IRE) 6-y-o, m

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I don't chuffin belive it! Well, I do, it's called murphy's law or something but I missed a 33/1 winner yesterday, that Run With The Wind yesterday at Listowel, mind you had no flat previous & looks to be just starting out aged 5, so this thread coiuld be going for a while yet

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I've added Sizing Symphony 4.25 Fairy to master list but not sure of betting proposition today, hot little race, trainer stats poor, market likes but 10lb below my top rated Pickapocketortwo - interesting prospect whatever being 5yo & only 5th start.

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I've added Sizing Symphony 4.25 Fairy to master list but not sure of betting proposition today, hot little race, trainer stats poor, market likes but 10lb below my top rated Pickapocketortwo - interesting prospect whatever being 5yo & only 5th start.

Wins though 11/4f & clocked time of the meet on a fairly useful card & looks one to follow -

Today we got opposite side of the coin - Wayward Glance, clear top rated at a course where they do dreadful, so God knows! I see he's got one in there too with Man of God:

2:00 Listowel 7K Run With The Wind (IRE) 5-y-o, m
4:20 Haydock Cl4 4K Wayward Glance (GB) 3-y-o, m
4:20 Haydock Cl4 4K Man Of God (IRE) 3-y-o, m
5:05 Worcester Cl6 1K Thespis Of Icaria (IRE) 5-y-o, m
6:15 Wolverhampton Cl5 2K Ryton Runner (IRE) 3-y-o, m