Gutaifan

Fresh from recording one of his biggest paydays as an owner when Amichi (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) stormed to victory in the Tattersalls Somerville Auction S. at Newmarket on Saturday, Laurence Bellman has admitted that the Ed Walker-trained juvenile is likely to continue his career abroad. But first, Bellman is excited to roll the dice at another valuable sales race, the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction S. in October. After that, the property developer expects to field offers from abroad for the gelding and explained why it is becoming increasingly difficult as...

James and Lisa Kelly's pilot project at the 2018 Tattersalls Ascot yearling sale could hardly have worked out better. The couple offered two yearling fillies through their Kildare-based Linacre House Stud, with both going on to be stakes-winning 2-year-olds: Flaming Princess (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) and Flippa The Strippa (Ire) (Outstrip {GB}). The Kellys return to the Ascot yearling sale-this season staged in Newmarket on Sept. 7-for the second time this year with three yearlings, including a full-sister to Flaming Princess. While Linacre House's Tattersalls Ascot debut looks on paper to...

When all was said and done in the first-season sires' race in Europe in 2019, it was undoubtedly the year of Night of Thunder (Ire). Darley's G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Lockinge S. winner was out in front on his own not only in terms of quantity-he sired the winners of the most races (44), stakes winners (seven), stakes horses (11) and group winners (three) and had the highest earnings (£879,457/€1,034,567) of any sire in his intake-but also quality. As detailed by John Boyce at the tail-end of the season,...

We are all familiar with the flash-in-the-pan stallions who blaze a trail with their first crop of runners only to sink with relatively little trace in ensuing seasons--a situation doubtless exacerbated by fleeting whims of a commercial market. For the sires whose debutants took to the track in 2019, the results achieved were important in regard to continuing or boosting their appeal to breeders booking mares for the 2020 season, but of even more importance is what happens now that their first crops are of the Classic age. When Dubawi...