'Newspaper' Breeder Maintains Good Record

'TDN Rising Star' Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) was one of the more visually impressive winners during the two-day Breeders' Cup festival at Churchill Downs this weekend, and while her trainer Chad Brown and owner Seth Klaraman of Klaravich Stables have become synonymous with big-race success in America, her breeder, Allan Belshaw, has thus far been much less in the spotlight.

That doesn't mean, however, that he hasn't produced results from his tiny broodmare band: Simply Times (Dodge), the second dam of Newspaperofrecord, is also the second dam of this year's G1 Irish Derby winner Latrobe (Ire) (Camelot {GB}).

Newspaperofrecord was raised at Richard and Sally Aston's Goldford Stud near Malpas on behalf of the Lancashire-based Belshaw. He breeds Thoroughbreds under the banner of his engineering company, Times Of Wigan.

Richard Aston said, “Allan is an inspiration for all small owner-breeders. We've been boarding mares for him for more than 20 years after Simply Times, who was one of the first horses he bought. I think she produced 10 winners including Welsh Emperor and Forever Times, who was sold to Ireland and is the dam of the Irish Derby winner Latrobe.”

“We bred Sunday Times, the mother of Newspaperofrecord, who was also a group winner for Peter Chapple-Hyam in Allan's colours. Newspaperofrecord was foaled in Ireland but came back here soon afterwards. She was a lovely foal, a big and strong filly and I think she's become more attractive as she's got older.”

“The family has done brilliantly. Juddmonte bought her half-sister Classical Times, which was a real honour, and the dam is now in foal to Churchill. Allan was in Churchill Downs watching the race and has Newspaperofrecord's yearling half-sister by Gleneagles which he was going to keep, but it wouldn't surprise me if he starts getting offers from America for her. He never has more than three mares in foal per year, and to have produced a Breeders' Cup winner and an Irish Derby winner is quite an exceptional achievement from such small numbers.”