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This is 18 per cent stakes winners to starters, more than twice the stakes. It is also worth noting that the stakes production rate of the Danehill mares that have visited Galileo is within half a percentage of that achieved by Danehill mares when bred to all other stallions, which indicates, initially at least, that Galileo did not have the advantage of covering Danehill mares who were especially distinguished.

As far as southern hemisphere-born foals are concerned, the foal Sidera won a graded stakes race in South Africa, while his foal Reem won at stakes level in the UAE. At a molecular level, there are clearly some variants within performance genes possessed by Danehill, which either support or enhance.

However, it is also clear with the number of attempts seen to date that not all Danehill mares inherited these performance variants to pass on to their foals and equally, those that do, still have the variations of inheritance, gene interaction with environment and the environment itself to contend with — hence the varying abilities of siblings relations, even those bred on the most auspicious crosses.

That crop produced a total of registered foals, of whom 17 were out of. To date, 16 of these have started, and 10 are winners. The oldest Danehill mares — generally not as well-bred as his later daughters — were only year-olds when Galileo retired to stud, and at that time there were no pointers to encourage wholesale testing of the nick.

In fact, it was actually a cross that had distinctly limited opportunity, with only 14 starters. Galileo with Danehill mares aside. Clearly there is something unique to. A look at the TrueNicks report, using Frankel as an example, reveals some another interesting background. In addition to conferring precocity, the nick also appears to convey a measure of speed. The average-winning distance for the offspring of Galileo and Danehill mares is 8.

Miss Galilei has shown the most stamina out of the stakes winners for the cross, scoring a Listed win over 1m4f in South Africa. Of course, Danehill sired top-class winners across the complete range of distances, and so the data almost certainly reflects the understandable tendency to breed Galileo to Danehill mares with some speed in the background. The yearlings were raised here at Haras de Saint.

Stay Thirsty winning the Travers Stakes. His victory further enhanced the reputation of sire Bernardini. Given that he was not a precocious horse, Bernardini, who stands at Darley in Kentucky, made an extremely impressive start to his stud career with his first two-year-olds in With Uncle Mo on the sidelines due to an internal complaint, Stay Thirsty did duty in the Kentucky Derby G1 , but was never a factor checking in 12th.

Stay Thirsty broke quickest of all, and although he was soon passed by habitual front-runner Shackleford he continued to press that one, before resuming a commanding position again in the stretch. He had little problem holding off the late closers to win by a length and a quarter. Bred in Kentucky by John D. A look at his pedigree shows not only plenty of quality, but significant ties to the Travers Stakes, both recent and far more distant.

Stay Thirsty is from the first crop of Bernardini. A son of A. However, Bernardini was in the line-up for. He then blazed the route since followed by Stay Thirsty by adding the Jim Dandy Stakes G2 by 9l, and the Travers, by seven and a half lengths. Given that he was not a precocious horse, Bernardini — who stands at Darley, Lexington, Kentucky — made an extremely impressive start to his stud career with his first two-year-olds in Four of his offspring have won stakes races: Stay Thirsty also showed some potential as a juvenile when second in the Hopeful Stakes G1.

Two of his second crop two-year-olds are stakes winners, the most notable being Gamilati, winner of the Cherry Hinton Stakes G2. Travel eight generations back and we get to Masda, who was born in The first foal of her dam Mahubah, Masda was an extremely nervous filly, but did manage to win six races, including a minor stakes. What really set her apart, however, was the arrival of her. Masda went on to produce three stakes winners, and one of these, Incandescent was bought by Robert J.

A famed stockman, Kleberg used his theories on linebreeding to create a new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis, and to develop an improved strain of range horses. When he turned his attention to thoroughbreds, those same techniques saw him produce a string of major stakes winners, Incandescent and her descendents playing no small part in that success. A versatile runner, who could occasionally produce an extraordinary performance, Prove Out defeated Secretariat in the Woodward Stakes, won the 2m Jockey Club Gold Cup and set a track record for 7f at Saratoga when beating.

Equal Change did not win a stakes event, but was successful three times and finished second in the Coaching Club American Oaks G1. Prove Out was a disappointing sire, although he occurs in numerous high-class pedigrees through the superlative racemare, Miesque. Prove Out was a disappointing sire, although he does show in numerous highclass pedigrees through the superlative racemare Miesque, whose dam Pasadoble was by Prove Out.

A daughter of the Irish-bred Belmont Stakes winner Cavan, Fairness was another mare from this family who was unraced, but who became a distinguished King Ranch producer. She carried the colours of Sheikh Mohammed when recording her only victory, which came as a four-year-old in a 1m4f handicap on the All-Weather at Lingfield. By then she had produced four foals: Buntline, a Seeking The Gold colt who won three times in Japan; King Rama, a gelding who was a seven-time winner in Ireland, as well as yearling and weanling colts by Fusaichi Pegasus.

Davis Stakes, and was several times graded placed, including when second in the Belmont Stakes G1. The Haras du Logis is smack bang in the middle of what we call the magic triangle, where you find the best owner-breeders in France. They and we are here for a reason. The limestone land, the demanding winters, the lush summers are perfect for breeding athletic, robust youngstock.

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When you come to visit, stoop down and grab a handful of the magic: In short, the French-bred horse has enhanced earning potential. As such, there is more money to be made breeding horses in France than in other countries. Put simply, the horses you breed in France are more valuable. Since , we have raised an average of 25 foals a year here and have had six G1 performers in the same period.

Logis is owned and run by Englishman Julian Ince, who learned his skills primarily at Coolmore. Logis is managed by a home-bred: He leads a talented team prized for their attention to detail. The office is run with charm and efficiency by Celine Chanu, as it has been for more than ten years. We like to talk about your horses and your successes every bit as much as you do. Call us any time; come to visit any time. They are your horses to enjoy, and we are here to help you do just that Tradition in sport trumped commercial considerations: In those pre-punk, pre-Thatcherite days, we really did seem to be a far gentler, more laid-back and less stressed-out nation.

In retrospect the long hot summer of was rather symbolic, as the year really did mark the high water mark of what could. By and large, the system worked well: And the idea of selling off the Tote to a private bookmaker would have been. But in the late 70s, there was a seachange in British politics and the post-war model was discarded.

Exchange controls were abolished and a massive wave of privatisation began. The economic changes had a profound impact on our society. One major reason was that the sport was still governed, by and large, by old school grouse moor conservatives, men who put tradition before making a quick buck. Nijinsky galloping at Epsom. Racing then, Clark believes, benefited from the social democractic era. But despite the rebuff, the market fundamentalists still had racing in their sights and in the Greedy Ghost renewed its assault. Tote — in non-commercial ownership since its creation by Winston Churchill in —was to be sold to a private bookmaking chain.

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EPO-Equine can be ordered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at www. The very real danger is of racing going the way of football, with a huge divide opening up between the bigger tracks and the smaller ones. Will a privately owned Tote be as generous? But then what happens?

The very real danger, as I argued in the Guardian in May, is of racing going the way of football, with a huge divide opening up between the bigger tracks and the smaller ones, many of whom, deprived of their Tote subsidy would face a real fight for their existence. Which ever way one looks at it, the ramifications of the sale will be felt for many years to come. And all this at a time when we face an everdeepening crisis over declining levels of prizemoney, again a consequence of the same. I recently re-read a copy of the Sporting Life from January 25, A 7f handicap.

In the good old days, the bookies paid their dues to racing because there was no way they could evade their responsibilities. But now, in the deregulated world of , they are free to base their operations offshore. Racecourse ownership is another salient factor. The reason why the Jockey Club can be so generous is because its profits are reinvested in racing, and not handed over to shareholders. The initiative is fundamentally flawed as it fails to realise that for millions of people. All is not yet lost. Racing has two paths ahead of it.

The signs are encouraging, if the prize-money issue is anything to go by. Step forward Simon Crisford and Godolphin. Is it too much to hope for that Champions Day will be restored to its rightful home at Newmarket, and that Racing for Change will simply fade into oblivion? But of course the sport does not exist in a vacuum. Many hoped that the financial crisis of , caused by under-regulation of the banking sector, would mark the end of market fundamentalism. And, on a more broader scale, our racing leaders need to realise that allowing unfettered market forces, is not the best way to build our sport.

Neil Clark is a freelance sports and horseracing journalist, who writes frequently for the Guardian and other mainstream newspapers. Jocelyn de Moubray analyses economics, the bloodstock market and currency movements over the last ten years to try and put Everyone involved in the business of buying and selling yearlings will have an idea of the value of any particular animal, but ask a wide range of experts and you will almost certainly get an equally varied answer. In addition nearly all valuations will be based entirely on recent events — the results of recent sales, the racing results of relations over the last 12 months, and probably the oldest statistics taken into account such as the covering fee, which would have been set two years previously.

The value of any yearling is, apparently, more than anything else, related to the value of past yearlings or other yearlings to have been sold recently. How else do you give value to something so difficult to assess as an. The difficulty of estimating values is of course the reason why yearlings are sold at auction. If it is was easy to determine which ones were worth what, there would be no need to go through the trouble and expense. Auction theory tells us that the value of something sold at auction is determined by the second last live bid and its the underbidder who gives value to a horse, a painting or a mobile phone licence.

However, as far as thoroughbreds are concerned this does not help a great deal either as the conditions upon which auction theory is based — that all participants have access to the same information and none of the owners of the object being sold are allowed to bid — cannot be applied to yearling auctions. Valuations tend to be based on recent events as the value of any thoroughbred is very volatile. Whether or not a stallion is hot and the interest in the progeny of a mare are. The flood of daily and weekly information is so great that few of those involved have the time or inclination to look back at historical values and see if there are long-term patterns, or to consider whether there can ever be such a thing as an equilibrium in the bloodstock market.

The format of the sales themselves is an additional problem where none of the companies have maintained the same format for more than a year or two making comparisons over time especially difficult. In Europe, Tattersalls has tended to have around 50 per cent of the market for quality yearlings, but then over the period examined there have been swings of up to 30 per cent in the relative value of sterling and the euro.

Currency fluctuations play a significant role in bloodstock auctions as not all of the major buyers are looking at the same line on the board while they are bidding. For the bloodstock business there can be little doubt that the most important currency is still the US dollar and when making international comparisons those in dollar terms appear to be more logical than others. Only once in the last 25 years has any trend, either positive or negative, continued for longer than three years.

If the market is down for three consecutive years it seems to attract bargain hunters and correct itself. Buyers used to trading internationally tend to reason in dollars, whether they come from Hong Kong, Japan or Australia, but then many important commodities from oil to gold are still priced in dollar terms. The statistics comparing the results of yearling sales in the US and Europe are only a snapshot and are far from complete.

They do, however, give an overall picture from which it is possible to draw several conclusions. The market for thoroughbred yearlings is very volatile. In Europe, the combined average price at the quality yearling sales has moved by more than 10 per cent in one out of every three years, and in the US the variations in average prices have been even greater with swings as big as 10 per cent or more in one out of every two years over the last 25 years.

If there is some stability in the market it is over a period of three or four years. If the market is down for three consecutive years it seems to attract bargain hunters and correct itself, even if this. The first bloodstock boom in the early s marked a peak in values, which is unlikely to return. It is impossible to imagine any collection of yearlings which could produce a sale at that level today.

The entrance of new buyers from the Middle East and the opening up of the market to international trade are the obvious explanations, but, having reached its peak, the market fell quickly, with the average price in the US falling by nearly 70 per cent over the next seven years. Commercial breeders will always struggle in a falling market because of the time-lag between the decision to breed and purchase a stallion nomination, and the moment of sale three years later.

In retrospect it is easy to see that was the top of the boom and that in the market hit the bottom, but of course for those involved at the time it appeared perfectly reasonable to suppose first that prices would. In dollar terms, the US and European markets ended last year in much the same place.

After four years of falling prices the average price of quality yearlings on both continents had fallen to within 10 per cent of the same level as that seen at the previous cyclical bottom in In real terms quality yearlings are less expensive now than at any time since the mids. A final difference between the US and the European markets is that in America changes happen fast. In seven of the last 25 years in the US the average price has fallen by 17 per cent or more, and then in four years it has risen by 14 per cent or more.

In the US when times are bad the market plunges, followed by production costs and foal numbers. The period from up to the next peak in the market in in the US and in Europe was one of prolonged growth which brought great returns to those who had spotted the trend early on. In the US the average price grew by per cent in real terms between and , whereas in Europe the average grew by per cent in sterling and 56 per cent in dollar terms.

This boom coincided with a wider period of economic growth in both the US and Europe. Mirroring wider events, once again there was a rally from to until the financial crisis of , which put the bloodstock market on a dramatic downward trend with the average price falling by 46 per cent in real terms in only three years. The Keeneland September Sale was the worst in the last 25 years, nobody wanted to buy horses that autumn and prices were down by 33 per cent. Overall, turnover at Keeneland plunged by 54 per cent in real terms in only three years from to The market continued to rise up to and, then after a correction in , rallied up to From to the market fell by 22 per cent in sterling and 40 per cent in dollar terms; sterling lost 40 per cent of its value against the dollar during Rationalising past events is always relatively simple.

However, these figures suggest that the quality yearlings in particular and probably racehorses as a whole, are more than anything else a luxury good or service, not a commodity or a speculative investment. The trends in the average price of quality yearlings do not follow at all those of property in London or of either the Dow Jones or FTSE stock market indicies. During good economic times the value of yearlings rises, but by nowhere near as much as stock markets or the best property markets, and the reverse is true as well, even in the US yearlings lose less of their value during recessions than stock markets or property.

During ordinary bad times there will always be some people with money who wish to carry on racing horses. On this basis looking to the future it is reasonable to expect the value of quality yearlings to rise. As an economic commentator pointed out, the financial crisis has already lasted longer than the First World War. If it is not going to get any worse, and the major countries are going to continue to grow, even if it is slow in real terms, then the value of yearlings is going to rise. It is not that minor adjustments in economic growth have a direct impact on the demand for yearlings, but more a question of confidence.

If those with the means of purchasing and racing yearlings are worried about the future they stop buying or cut back significantly and there are fewer newcomers to the market. If people feel that the worst of the financial crisis is behind us, then the demand for yearlings will rise as the price has dropped significantly.

During the boom years there tends to be a moment when the market is carried by the interests of the producers, rather than the buyers as the high values deter those who do not gain from them in other ways. In the bloodstock business this is the stallion owners rather than those who buy to race. At current levels this is no longer the case, and so if there is confidence in the future the yearling market is likely to attract new buyers, as has been the case at the recent Keeneland September Sale. Currency fluctuations will also play an important role in the future. A weak currency will always help a sale attract off shoreinterest.

Sterling is currently more or less at is long-term average against the dollar, but it was considerably stronger throughout the period from to , which had a big impact on the value of yearlings in England. Similarly, the current strength of the euro against both sterling and the dollar does not help those sales conducted in euros. If there is not a second financial crisis then it is reasonable to expect at least a three-year period of growth in the yearling market, particularly as yearlings to be offered for sale were produced at post-Lehman Brothers costs.

It might be an autumn yearling sale, a winter NH breezeup or a spring two-year-olds in training sale, but you can be pretty sure that there will be a small but select consignment offered by the Yorkshire-based farm. The farm is owned and run by former NH jockey Mark Dwyer, who bought the property in when he was still riding and was operating a side-line dealing in a few NH horses. That side-line, by necessity, became his main occupation when a bad fall in brought his riding career to an abrupt end. I came over to Jimmy Fitzgerald in and we had a pretty good time of it.

Usually though if that happens, he is right and I am wrong! With yearlings to both sell and buy it makes for a. But Dwyer does not dwell on those past achievements, preferring to deal in the here and now. In fact, the Yorkshire-assimilated Irishman prefers to stay out of the lights completely, and it took much persuasion over a beer in Deauville to get him to even consider this interview. Okay you can get it wrong, but if you tell it how you it is, how you see it, and then if you are anywhere near the mark, then there is a greater chance that the client will come back to you again.

I am very fortunate to be with him and have learnt a lot from him. Willie has a fantastic set-up, which lends itself well to the job, and some clients may have seen the horses two or three times there and can. The partnership has made a conscious decision to take a slightly different tack to things this year.

I had established a few clients to sell for and did not want to endanger not looking after that side of things properly. It is the best hunting ground really at Newmarket as buying in Book 1 is tough. With the onset of the recession, they were in danger of being left high and dry through and We will try to have a bigger spread of horses. We took two to France, it worked out ok and sold both. We liked the horse, but it seemed we were the only ones who did!

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So we are collecting breeze-up horses as we speak. The market could be down by per cent. Obviously it was disappointing that that one did not go on and run. Evans and Prince Saud bin Khaled. The Oaks winning team: HE words come tumbling back out of the time capsule of childhood, well remembered now but at the time rarely heeded. Look at those who have owned Oaks winners in recent years — Coolmore, Godolphin, Khalid Abdullah, the Niarchos family, the Maktoums and many others with a long and storied association with the turf.

Now the Taylors are on that list thanks to the exploits of Dancing Rain; not bad for a couple of corporate lawyers who have been owners for just four years. But Martin and Lee Taylor are going. Surprisingly, it was Lee who made the first move when about four years ago he mentioned buying a stud farm. He wears the family anorak, his mind and his conversation overflowing with formlines and bloodlines.

Lee, 47, occupies a similar position at Linklaters, a mile or two across the tube map, and if Martin is the heart then Lee is the hard-nosed head. Their grandfather was an old-time tic-tac man who instilled in the boys what eventually blossomed into a lifetime interest.

Their father was a printer at the Daily Telegraph, came home from the night shift with an armful of ink-sticky newspapers that Martin filleted for racecards and form guides before school. Martin was into the form in a big way, Lee never so much, but they both enjoyed a day at the races. Penzena won a race, whetted their appetite, but her chief and enduring legacy was the vitally important bond forged by the Taylors with the man who bought her at the sales, Liam Norris.

Liam looks at them all and whittles the list down to a handful, and Lee keeps a close eye on the budget. Dancing Rain will be clocking up the air miles in the winter and she is to stay in training next year. The long trail a-winding to the land of Classic dreams contains more than a few dead-ends, and at first it seemed that Dancing Rain, a daughter of Danehill Dancer out of a half-.

It was William, and I immediately thought it must be bad news.

That was the first time we thought she might actually be something special. Dancing Rain won on her reappearance at Newbury, was runner-up there in her trial, and then went to Epsom and led all the way under an inspired Johnny Murtagh. Not all the tale, though. Perhaps they saved that for later, though.

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She stays so well but one of her strengths is her turn of foot. The numbers underline this theory. Furthermore, timing specialist Nick Mordin says that over the 1m3f in Germany she ran the last three furlongs in At the moment the land is used as a sheep farm, so the Taylors will build their vision from the ground up. Mind you, if one day we got a nice Galileo colt out of Dancing Rain we might be tempted to keep that. In time they will join the broodmare band, and the Taylors will be active at the sales again this autumn.

Mating plans to be exact. We look back and see what happened in the past and why we might have got it wrong, or perhaps occasionally right. It amalgamated with an existing breeding operation, Valiant Stud, which is named after his two children, Valerie and Anthony. This year has been quite a good one so far for the farm which enjoyed two winners at Royal Ascot, courtesy of Pisco Sour, who won the Tercentenary Stakes G3 and was.

For a farm that has produced 1, and 2, Guineas winners, Nassau Stakes winners, a Coronation Stakes winner as well as countless graded stakes winners, nothing less should be expected, but then as we all know there are no guarantees in this world of breeding and racing. The first time we got Footstepsinthesand, and then we went back three times to try and get a filly.

And we did, all three were fillies, but I should have realised that I was inbreeding to Nasrullah and Red God, temperament became an issue and it comes out more in fillies than colts. Yes, it can be a little frustrating when you know what might be right for a family if you see a trainer doing the opposite, but then they all have to go through a learning curve.

She became one of the mainstays of the stud, and yet we were forced to do that mating. It really is extraordinary. She in turn bred the good handicapper On Show, dam of the leading juvenile Welney and his half-sister Inchmurrin, winner of the Child Stakes and dam of the leading miler of his year and subsequent sire, Inchinor. The year of was also to prove pivotal in the development of the broodmare band at Hascombe. The homebred filly On The. The draft continues in much the same vein throughout the three days and includes a Pivotal colt out of the Group 2 runner-up Kotsi, a half-sister to Miss Keller and a grand-daughter of Inchmurrin; a Pivotal filly out of Miss Penton, a daughter of On The House; Lemon Drop Kid and Teofilo colts out of half-sisters to Rebecca Sharp, as well as a Shamardal colt from a half-sister to Footstepsinthesand.

She has a Mizzen Mast colt catalogued at Tattersalls, while there is also a Galileo colt out of the Listed-winning mare Mussoorie. She is from the family of the Group 1 winners Fragrant Mix and Alpine Rose and was also bought in as a Tattersalls 70,gns yearling. Oppenheimer admits that he foresees a difficult task setting reserves in this market. It seems that is what has happened at Doncaster and in the US. It will be an exciting and busy week at Tattersalls for the farm, but selling such wonderful horses has a downside too in that the control of the future prospects of a young horse is transferred.

It is like a chess board doing the matings. I have to find stallions every year and it can be a nightmare trying to get it right. You might get away with it one year, but then what happens when the three turn out to be not much good? But then something pops up — Namibian, for instance. Mark Johnston persevered with him through a few indifferent runs and other trainers might not have carried on, but he had seen something in the horse.

It has worked out well and I think he could have gone very close in the St Leger if he had run. That would have been nice for the stud. It is clear that Oppenheimer derives a tremendous amount of pleasure from planning his mating and breeding programmes for his horses, and while the majority are sold he usually has around 12 horses for training each season, but generally only around six in full training at any one time he breeds to produce a racehorse, while prepared to take into account the vagaries of the bloodstock market.

I like to do the opposite of what every one else is doing. He can be quite useful as he hears a lot of what is being said in the market place about horses and stallions, which horses are liked. You need to take all of that into account. It does not have to be a Group 1 winner, but just a. Mares are sold as the demands of the farm require and if families are declining, Oppenheimer will buy new blood in order give things a necessary boost. He is also prepared to buy back a filly at the sales if needed. The stud is run as a farm, where any the tax advantages offered to the are seen as vital support.

Other than the longevity of some of the pedigrees at Hascombe, most of the staff can boast years of long service, probably years that should be worth a diamond watch on retirement. Stud groom Roy, who was the. We have a great time trying to work out, which is which and are nearly always right, but not every time!

I would look out of the window and see something lying down with its legs in the air, rush out in the middle of night wearing nothing in order to resuscitate it, find that it would be perfectly all right and just look an idiot! He was left 3l at the start, but was only beaten 3l and it was found afterwards that he had broken a small bone in his foot. Head looked at them and pointed out Pelerin and said: But he was totally right. Pelerin won five Group races and should have won that Derby as it was not a great year.

But that concrete, commercial jungle, alongside with those twinkling diamonds mined deep underground in South Africa, has allowed Anthony Oppenheimer to indulge, build his passion and run his bloodstock interests. Everyone wants to breed a Group 1 winner. It is not a goal that every breeder manages to achieve. Car Colston Stud has produced itself a top-level performer not just once, but an amazing three times in a relatively short life of just 15 years. It is an achievement that has slightly registered under the radar of much of the bloodstock community. The farm was actually, 20 years ago, an arable operation, however owners, the.

That decision led to the purchase of the Will Farish-bred Wiener Wald and to the breeding in of a filly by Silver Hawk, her first foal, and then ten years later of a colt by Rainbow Quest. That first filly was called Argent Du Bois, she ran six times in France placing. She was brought back to the stud, with her own first foal also being a filly.

By Royal Applause and a little on the small side, the decision was made to sell her as a yearling. Island Race, by Common Grounds, was no star but managed to win twice for trainer James Fanshawe, and was returned to the stud at the end of her three-year-old career. She was sent to In The Wings for her first covering, producing a colt who was sold as a yearling to German International Bloodstock for 75,gns. He was named Soldier Hollow and he went on to win two German Group 1s, as well as a haul of Group races through the.

Meanwhile again Wiener Wald was still breeding. After producing Argent Du Bois, she had got the few indifferent runners that every mare has, but in produced On Reflection, a Rainbow Quest Group-placed colt, in a sister to Argent Du Bois called Riotous Applause, who was retained by the farm and who finished third in a Listed race, and in that colt by Rainbow Quest.

Crowded House did not really train on as a three-year-old and failed to win again, but he did finish second in the Pacific Classic G1 and fourth in the Woodbine Mile G1. Haggins admits that he will have had a number of sleepless nights in the run up to the sale, this being the first draft sold by the stud for which he has been solely responsible since foaling.

We then aim to pick out the best of the fillies and sell all of the colts. She has twice finished second in a maidens. There are also two fillies with. Sometimes the right decision is made — sometimes you get it wrong as perhaps the sale of Ticker Tape proved. Horses will always surprise you. The maximum number of mares we want here is ten and we just need to be continually aware and shuffling the pack to ensure the quality remains high. It is very important to let other people have fillies from the family too.

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But it is difficult to find those really nice fillies to breed from. I thought I knew everything until I went to work with her. We began to think that a move to England would be a good idea as it would be easier for her to get to and from Spain. I sent my cv in, and around the same time Mrs ForemanHardy was booking a nomination at Kildangan and happened to mention that she was looking for a manager — it went from there.

My job is to continually assess our broodmare band and maintain its quality. The maximum number of mares we want here is ten and we need to be continually aware and shuffling the pack to ensure the quality remains high. Nottinghamshire is made that much easier. You never know which one will become the racehorse. I want to be proud that I have done the best job that I can do in order to build that racehorse, to give it the best possible start.

While they want to produce good sales horses, they want their own success on the racecourse too. That is important to them. Keith and Eileen Harte, who set up business at Shutford Stud five years ago, are bucking recessionary trends, consigning more at Tattersalls than ever before. Considering that the Irish-born couple only moved to England six years ago, setting themselves up in business at Shutford Stud, Oxfordshire in , the farm has since sold four horses who have fetched more than 90,gns, including an Oasis Dream yearling last autumn who made ,gns.

Furthermore, the pair can claim the recession has actually worked in their favour. I think if we had done that and the recession had come, we would have been very quickly back home. I think our timing was just lucky in that regard. You just have to keep chipping away at it, and to be honest I find the only place to pick up customers is at the sales or the races. It really was trainer Eddie Hales who was the catalyst for encouraging me to head out alone.

I was working for the guy whom Eddie rented his yard off, but seemed to be spending a lot of time working for Eddie! Initially, the couple worked away together gathering the few mares and clients that they had, and consigned just one in their first year at Tattersalls. In our first year we were not so busy. Through the latter part of the year, Keith takes himself off to the foal sales looking for pin-hooking prospects. The concept of running their own business soon became a goal.

I could not operate this place without him now, he allows me to get away, he works seven days a week and is integral to the running of this small business. You have to get your face around. In this regard the pin-hooking side of the business has been a key policy — by always concentrating on buying a serious Book 2 type of horse, it means that the Keith Harte Bloodstock draft has had good representation at Tattersalls in the commercial market. The consignment also has three this year in Book 1, two of which were bred at Shutford Stud and are being sold on behalf of landlord Roots.

It is a further facet to the business that has worked to their advantage. We are very fortunate that Tim has such a good family and we are delighted to be able to take a few to Book 1. It really depends as to what he has of the family and he tends to like to keep a filly from a young mare. We will meet the horses at the sales, they will have nothing with them but a headcollar.

I will have everything there, as well as good sales staff — I think it works well to us as consigning agents for Irish-based producers as it saves them the worry about sending over staff and equipment to England. The Oasis Dream last year was vetted — I knew he would vet cleanly — but all of them only came to look once, and I thought none were really interested.

I felt a little bit like a fool as I had thought that they had just gone off the horse as most buyers usually like to look at a horse a few times. You know what you should get, you know what you need to get, but it can be a very different matter what actually happens. It is hard to do, especially when you are looking at just four mares in the stables when you should have over ten. The colt was bred by Tim Roots and is selling in Book 1 as Lot Then you can be confident of standing over a horse when you are selling it. Arthur Bryan, ajbryan live.

Friday 20 — Saturday 21 November Contact: By and large, I thought the competition went really well. First, the general standard of polo, including riding, tactics and technique, was at a better standard than last year. This is pleasing given that we have worked hard on training courses, standards and instructors. We plan to do yet more on this front next year including possibly combined training and competition days. Keep in touch via the Pony Club website and the Polo Times for more details. Second, the final of the Gannon, the flagship competition of the Pony Club and a trophy with a noble history, produced a really good quality and entertaining match.

Third, the standard of umpiring was very high. This is something I had worked on personally and it was very pleasing to see present and past members of the Pony Club — some B grade — umpiring very well. The umpires were consistent and intolerant of poor language and behaviour. A couple of technical fouls given as soon as things get heated — it does wonders once word gets round that there is going to be zero tolerance!

Perhaps I should also mention that players, parents and officials seemed to enjoy themselves on the social side as well, which is part of the whole weekend. On balance, looking back, a good season. Of course, there are things the Committee want to work on for next year — more and better training, more effective recruitment, slicker organisation. If you have comments, please pass them on through your Branch Manager. Playster, was awarded to George Smith years-old by Dugald Long.

Since this tournament. In that sense, the mandate is achieved and everyone wins. RJ Polo has embraced this vision and have generously committed to and supported SUPA throughout this season and for the next several years. The winning England team. We train at FHM Polo Club, which is 15 minutes away from the University and provides good safe horses for beginners at a low cost.

We train in groups of six, keeping it fun and exciting every step of the way. Vacate et scire Colours: Youth Polo is a rapidly expanding area of the sport. As the academic year starts again, we take a peek at some new University line-ups Introducing: The University of Sussex Polo Club.

Our teams are composed of everyone from complete beginners to more experienced polo players. As a new team with only one experienced player, being able to compete and win friendly matches against other universities whose students have more polo mileage is an achievement within itself. The amount of progress our players have made in their first year is quite impressive!

The tournament was divided into three categories: In the high goal division, the success of the La Indiana and Don Peludo teams saw all four of the English players out in Sotogrande reach the Final. The game was a fantastic showcase of young British talent. The teams were well matched, fighting it out throughout the game, but it was La Indiana who scored the first goal in the opening chukka, with a solo run through the posts from Will Harper.

In the second chukka and final chukka, La Indiana put away another goal, despite some great. How do you think the Tournament went? It was so much fun! Quite nerve-wracking but great fun! Tell us more about your teammates? We also manage to play with her every two days out here because our horses are kept on the farm that her dad manages. How have your horses gone out here? My best horses were probably Mimosa and Simpatica. How did it feel to play the Final at Los Pinos? It was quite scary, but I felt prepared because Dad was our coach and he told me what to do.

As we drove up and saw the spectators watching the games before us we were getting really scared, but it was so much fun and hearing everyone cheer was great. How did you find the tournament? Every field here is great to play on. The kids polo here is definitely much better here than back in England. I came over not knowing I was going to play polo, but I brought my stuff over hoping to maybe just play some practices. Then we heard about the tournament and managed to get a team together.

I was going to play the medium section originally, but I managed to play the one above. Did you play in the first tournament as well? Yes, I played in both tournaments. The first one was at Ayala where we played a two chukka match, waited four chukkas and then played in the Final.

The Ayala grounds are unbelievable and I was really lucky with my team. Did you have your own horses? I was really lucky with the horses. And you two are good friends, what was it like to play against each other? We were talking about this in the car the other day actually. Are you done now until next year? When I get back to England my 4 goal tournament starts on the Tuesday and then I could very possibly also have a 6 goal tournament and then I will be finished.

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Tomlinson Please contact Mark for more thespanishbootcompany. The Lost Boys came out firing on all cylinders in the first two chukkas and were ahead by four goals at half-time. These were not the only Military matches on this day. The Household Cavalry came out on top in this match, defeating the Foot Guards Guards Polo Club patron Lt Col Howard Flood, who traditionally organises a Grenadiers game on this day too, did not fail to disappoint.

Major General Smyth-Osbourne arrived in time on a buggy from the main presentations to Ground Three to present The Present Grenadiers with their prizes. Lost Boys defeated Hackett Army With the end of the season fast approaching, many players and teams are trying to book in as much grass polo as possible before hanging up their hats for the season. Despite the weather, the tournament was a great success. In division three -8 to -7 goals The Royal Airforce took first. The Fleet Air Arm team The Dirty Jodhpurs From a score on Friday, the second half of the match on Saturday treated over spectators to fast end-to-end polo.

The pitch, established in less than a year, played. Despite this Army Team not having played together before, the communication flowed freely and back up was consistent, as was the passing of the ball up the line to teammates. Mariane van Straaten scored a cracking neck shot at distance, but the match ended in favour of the hosts. Single storey house with master bedroom with ensuite shower room, 3 further bedrooms, www. Former racehorses excel in polo.

Extensive outbuildings including 2 storey barn 60ft x 22ft, 70ft hay barn. Land is laid mainly to grass with a small wooded area. Snaffles are standard fare on the racetrack, but when retraining for polo the correct bit option is essential to avoid ongoing problems which may impact on progress and performance. I have a five-year-old ex-racehorse gelding. On the track he ran with his tongue out, a habit he still has. I originally started off with a Three-Ring-Gag, but he still poked his tongue out in this.

I then tried a Waterford and although his tongue does not stick out as much, I still find him very strong. Do you have any suggestions? My suggestion is to try him in a Williams McHardy. It will give you some poll pressure, as well as helping with the turning aids.

This bit has a medium port, creating space for the tongue, which relieves pressure. All Bombers bits are made from blue sweet iron, which encourages salivation and helps bit acceptance. Submit your bitting questions to info equineman. Firstly, I assume you have had his teeth, neck and back checked by a qualified physical therapist to rule out physiological issues. If not, you should cover these options first.

This encourages the horse to salivate. Call Equine Management on Rear of the Year How are your rears looking at this time of year? Three goal player, Tom, still has ten games to go, but I was delighted to see his string of ponies still looking super and, as Tom says, still feeling great — his two grooms, Matias and Antonio, look like they are the ones in need of a rest! Although these ponies are not playing high goal, they are predominantly Australian Thoroughbreds and have so far played games with another 10 to go.

During the second half of the season, we are often used to seeing ponies begin to. Frequently, this means we often add a few more oats to help them see the season out. For the last two seasons these ponies have all lived out at night and are stabled during the day. As you can imagine, it is music to my ears when I hear that muzzles are a thing of the past in the Beim yard! When the ponies come back into work they are all fed Conditioning Cubes and a prebiotic Baileys Digest Plus to aid beneficial bacteria in the hindgut as it adjusts to the introduction of concentrate feed.

Once they start playing, they are generally. So far none of the ponies have needed oats as the Conditioning Cubes are providing adequate energy and power for the work Tom is asking of them on the field. Touching wood and lots of wood! Who knows, but Team Beim have done a great job here, maintaining their rears until this time of year Contact Lorna Edgar of Baileys Horse Feeds on lorna baileyshorsefeeds. Having captained the Royal Vets Polo Team for several years, she continued to play club polo at Lacey Green, before moving to Hampshire with three of her polo ponies in tow. Nicola has a particular interest in equine medicine and performance, which incorporates preventative medicine.

Grass in your paddocks may seem plentiful, but it is wise to test the soil to make sure geography is not likely to impact on the mineral content if copper and selenium levels are low. The more electrolytes a horse loses, the osmolarity concentration of body fluids is altered and this in turn affects how their bodies function.

This can contribute to fatigue, impair their ability to regulate their body temperature and lead to poor co-ordination. Electrolytes or Salts are minerals that carry an electric charge when dissolved in water. They are fundamental to important processes in the body such as controlling fluid balance, muscle contraction and the transmission of nerve impulses. The role of electrolytes in fluid balance is important to consider, as electrolytes are lost in sweat. If we consider that in normal conditions, horses can lose up to five to seven litres of sweat per hour of exercise, and up to 15 litres of sweat per hour during high intensity exercise with 10g of electrolytes in each litre it is easy to see how these electrolytes can.

How do we prevent this? Ensuring our horses have access to a good quality balanced feed should provide horses in light to moderate work with their daily requirement of electrolytes. Offering rock salt licks is a good way to make up for any shortfall. Those horses in harder work may require additional supplementation. Picking the correct supplement can often be daunting when walking into a feed store.

A rough guide for electrolytes can be calculated by adding the stated amount of sodium to the amount of potassium and it should be equal to the level of chloride. This is in balance with the ratio of electrolytes lost in sweat. Going into winter, what should we be considering for the ponies we turn out? The nutritional content of grass varies from season to season, as well as geographically.

It is often thought that grass alone is adequate as the only feed offered to those horses on turn out. Unfortunately it is not particularly suitable in terms of vitamins and minerals and for those horses with higher energy requirements, for example mares in foal. Many people will regularly test their hay or haylage for its nutritional content, however pasture or soil testing is often overlooked.

What is in the soil can determine the quality of the grass produced, along with other edible plants that may supplement the grazing. This is the best way to ensure that the grazing we are providing is suitable as a sole feedstuff or whether we need to supplement over the winter. Copper and selenium are two minerals that are often lacking from pastures, selenium being affected by geographic location. Whilst selenium requirements are low, supplementation should always be done with care and veterinary advice as horses are particularly sensitive to selenium toxicity.

Copper levels vary hugely throughout the year, and can be altered by the levels of other minerals that are being ingested. Protein deficiency is also something that is often mistaken for eating too few calories. This may be caused by either poor intake of good quality protein, or a lack of a specific amino-acid the building blocks of proteins. Horses that are protein deficient often show non-specific signs such as poor quality hair and hoof growth.

What signs may we see to indicate our horses may be lacking in minerals? Behaviours such as Pica eating non-food substances or excessively licking each other may indicate that our ponies are lacking in essential minerals. Horses may be seen to eat large quantities of soil, often seen before other signs become apparent. Chronic salt deprivation may also result in Pica. Other behaviours such as eating faeces and chewing fences or bark may indicate that they do not have enough roughage in their diets. Supplementing the pasture with good quality hay will often combat this issue.

However, all of these behaviours have also been linked with boredom. In summary, testing the pasture is the best starting point, and seeking appropriate advice regarding the results to ensure that you have good quality pasture and hay available to your ponies this winter.

Making small changes such as making sure the mineral balance is correct will help us get off to a great start at the beginning of next season. The eating of non-food substances is called Pica and whilst can be linked to boredom is also a sign of mineral deficiency References Hinchcliff, K. Accessed online at www. Lottie Goldstone, a Solicitor Advocate at Harrison Clark Rickerbys, offers up some legal advice on how to deal with end of season debt recovery Whether you are a professional player, patron, blacksmith, feed merchant or a polo club as we near the end of the season you may find that you are owed money.

This article aims to help guide you through the process of recovering debt and opting for the most cost effective route relating to the sum of money outstanding. If money is owed to you then you are known as a creditor and your first step is to contact the debtor with a view to agreeing either payment in full, or a payment plan that is affordable for the debtor.

It would be prudent to make this arrangement via email and to keep a note of all correspondence between yourself and the debtor with a view to, if this is not resolved, using it as evidence. This would also show you in a good light, providing that you have been reasonable, if it ever went to Court. If however, corresponding with the debtor is fatuous, then the next step would be to write a letter to the debtor formally outlining: Who you are 2. The amount of the debt 3. How the debt arose i. Steps taken to recover the debt 5. Steps that will be taken to recover the debt 6. The date by which you would expect payment a minimum of seven days 7.

A request for any disputed issues to be put in writing If this again provides no further progress with the matter, then mediation would be the next reasonable step. However this can be a fairly costly exercise and needs to be fully considered and related to the amount of money outstanding. The Court does take the view that parties to a dispute should attempt to resolve their differences through negotiation or mediation before seeking redress through the Courts and, if mediation is unsuccessful, the matter can still be taken to Court. This route is cost effective and the results are good in so far as receiving payment.

However it can affect the relationship with your debtor and you need to be mindful of this should you wish to continue doing business together the following season. If, however, you are a professional player and you are owed money by a patron, then issuing a Statutory Demand and petitioning for bankruptcy could have a detrimental effect on your relationship and engaging with that patron on a professional basis in the future. This should not be considered as a deterrent, more as an overriding factor to be aware of. Personally, I would adopt the Statutory Demand approach every time.

The original contract needs to be clear that the sum is due for the services rendered and when the payment is to be paid, so it is as well to agree the finite terms and conditions of your contract with the relevant party before embarking on the service. As with all legal issues, it comes down to what was agreed in principle or in writing at the beginning and who has not honoured the contract of paying the sum.

If you are not confident to adopt the Statutory Demand route then you can pursue your own debt recovery via Money Claims Online, whereby you issue a claim in the County Court dealing with the money owed. Once you have obtained judgment via this route then you would enforce the judgment by attaching an Earnings Order, a Charging Order and petitioning for bankruptcy. There is little point going to the cost of obtaining and enforcing judgment if the debtor does not have the means to pay, as this can result in throwing good money after bad. Therefore to enforce via this method the debtor must be in employment.

However for those of you contemplating litigation you need to be mindful of the Court fee increases which have happened recently. In March this year fee increases for money claims meant: The Ministry of Justice consultation will continue until 15 September with changes anticipated soon thereafter. There are various options open and attached to firms to help spread the cost of litigation and obtain funding for Court fees dependent of course on the merits of the case.

Debts have a habit of creeping up on individuals and keeping a close eye on your paperwork, the originating contract and setting reminders in your calendar for payment after invoices have been sent out, is one way to keep on top of things. For more information call Lottie on or email her at lgoldstone hcrlaw.

Electric gates can keep ponies and livestock in, and unwanted visitors out, without having to worry about guests to your yard shutting the gate behind them. Standard five-bar farm gates do the job well enough, but with a high volume of traffic, equine and vehicular, gates are often left open or not secured properly. They are also vulnerable to being opened at anytime, despite padlocks and chains. In the April issue of Polo Times our resident legal columnist, Lottie Goldstone, took a look at the implications of loose horses and how accidents caused by polo ponies on the main public highway could spell legal and financial disaster for the owner.

If, for example, the horse had taken fright and trampled through fencing or jumped out on to the road, and this did not result from any negligence of the owner of the horse nor from the livery. Installing electric gates for your yard would solve the issue of open access to any yard. Electric gates can be programmed to be opened by sensors during specific times of the day, or only to be opened with key-pads, mobile devices or only from inside the property. Electric gates would do away with any worries about other people closing gates behind them, or uninvited visitors chopping through chains to help themselves to the contents of your tack rooms.

If you are a livery yard or polo club owner that offers boxes or paddocks for rent to your members and players then the onus may still be on you in the event of a accident involving escaped ponies. The Animals Act The Animals Act is known for being filled with tortuous wording and many legal debates and litigation have ensued, with many unsuccessful attempts at amending or altering the Act in any way.

As far as a horse owner is concerned, the Animals Act is exceptionally onerous and can only really be described as a nightmare of legalese. Horses are not animals which belong to a dangerous species contained within the Act. However they can be caught under section 2 2 whereby: The horse owner has a general duty of care to keep the horse properly secured and prevent any possible access on to the highway.

If, upon inspection, it shows that the fencing is inadequate, then there is the potential to attribute the liability to the horse owner. However, it is more complex than that, as the horse owner is contracted to the livery yard owner. There is an implied condition on behalf of the livery yard owner within the contract that the fencing and fields will be adequate.

Whilst the owner of the polo pony has the overall responsibility of the wellbeing of the horse and should check that the facilities are secure, there is an argument that the liability will attach to the livery yard owner. Furthermore, this point could quite successfully be argued. Let us consider that perhaps the polo pony had been let out deliberately and potential horse thieves had cut the padlock, then arguably the horse owner is not negligent and will not have any liability at common law.

This would come down to a question of evidence however, to ensure that the field was secured by a padlock and chain in the first place. But, we needed to get power over metres from its source in the office, to the end of the drive. Everyone said that the digging up the tarmac and running armoured cabling to. After a few minutes on the phone talking through our power supply concerns, I quickly realised that their solar power provided the perfect solution — not only was it more cost-effective in.

Solar Security — No Mains, No Problem Many rural locations for yards, clubs and polo schools will have electricity, but not necessarily cabled as far as the entrance to the property. Extending mains power even 50 metres, is both expensive and time consuming — not to mention intrusive as it invariably involves digging up tarmac. In many cases, providing power for electric gate installation is the most expensive part of fitting a security gate. Third party liability cover is available as part of your Membership with the HPA. However there are restrictions: However, if you are 3 goals or above then you are not covered.

Likewise if the ponies are registered in a different name or business name then you are excluded from this cover. Ponies used for commercial use, for example ponies that are hired for reward or gain or used in conjunction with hire and reward are also excluded. So be aware that ponies used by players who charge fees or even get reward in kind — so diesel paid etc are also excluded. It is assumed on this power consumption that any gate will be fitted with a GSM intercom and exit loop as standard most installations have these accessories as a minimum and the solar systems are rated to cover this in their energy calculations.

In short, the solar option allows security to be fitted to the most remote locations. We can offer equestrian owners massive cost savings when mains power is more than 50 metres away from the gate. With a solid two year warranty on all products, we offer an unprecedented further 8 years return to base warranty on our gate motors.

Regulations The Supply of Machinery Safety Regulations state that new powered gates are safe and should be supplied with a declaration of conformity and a CE mark. The Workplace regulations require that powered gates in a workplace must be maintained in a safe condition The Health and Safety at Work Act require that owners, landlords and managing agents maintain their gates in a safe condition and that installers do not leave them in a unsafe condition. All the detail on how to identify hazards of a gate and then implement the relevant safety, are outlined in the harmonized British standard BS EN for industrial and commercial garage doors and gates.

Gate Safety Week Gate Safety Week was initiated in to raise awareness of the importance of proper installation and maintenance of powered gates and how to prevent accidents. It also aims to inform owners that a gate is their responsibility, whether that be in a workplace or domestic dwelling. The campaign aims to educate and inform installers, specifiers and the general public on the dangers of poorly installed and maintained powered gates and how to deal with an unsafe gate.

If an automated gate does not have a technical file, CE declaration of conformity, force test, user guide and maintenance log, it is not compliant. Never again should a security system compromise life in the UK and the Powered Gate Group are working hard to make this so. Most importantly, it is hoped that through Gate Safety Week, accidents resulting from unsafe powered gates will become a thing of the past.

As a result, the organisations behind the high goal strings are extensive and must work like well-oiled machines. For me, the veterinary aspect is also massive. We also have an amazing back physiotherapist, which is vital. Frequent physio and vet checks before, during and after the journey, ensure they remain in top condition. Balancing the act of getting the horses out, against when you have to play your first practices and matches is crucial.

Normally at home we do minutes walking, 20 minutes trotting and then another minutes walking, but here we do 20 minutes walking and 20 minutes trotting, broken up into two minute sessions with a walk lap in between. We train them like we would for endurance — interval training has helped them a lot. There are of course some accidents that cannot be avoided, but problems such as tendonitis inflammation of tendons , myositis inflammation of muscle fibres , colics and gastric or colonic ulcers, for example, can be avoided if we correctly control the physical condition of our horses.

It is important to make sure that they receive regular veterinary checks not just when the damage is done , to objectively analyse the horses regularly and not to rush into playing horses that are not sufficiently prepared. Jessica, the Team Vet, checks for any signs of distress in the ponies, after they are washed down. Accidents do occur though, this is polo after all, and when asked what the most common ailments seen out in Spain are, Jessica has a list. Arthritis, arthrosis damage of joints and the odd stress fracture or trauma caused by an accident are common too, and exertion rabdomyolysis tying up caused by muscle fatigue or incorrect feeding is seen quite frequently.

But I think the horses managed better than we did. Of course you have to always watch out for dehydration. The fields Santa Maria Polo Cub is famous for its beautiful, fast fields, however it should be noted that their contrast to British clubs can have a detrimental effect on the ponies. The schedule There are mixed feelings backstage in camp about the schedule of the matches. From a veterinary point of view Jessica sees problems with such a chukka-packed season. It is not just the short time between seasons that causes problems, but the fact that the season in Sotogrande is so compact.

Some teams are playing the same amount of matches in August as they did in the entire British season. Our horses are playing nearly every day at home, five or six times a week. Despite the heat, the ponies still retain excellent condition under the care of the La Indiana team. Horsepower Lou outlines the goals of the stable management team and how they have achieved their aims this year. We bought more horses this year. Last year was our first year doing the high goal out here, this year is our second.

The fields are fast, the heat is intense and the best thing that you can do for the horses is to have them play fewer minutes with more frequency if you want to avoid misfortunes. Lou has spent years sourcing the right feed and forage for the horses out in Spain. We get normal pasture hay from the north, which is superb, but it did take me about three years to find a supplier.

Vitamins and electrolytes are important, all the basic stuff you do in England is a lot more concentrated out here. The lessons learned out in Sotogrande can help all teams fine-tune their pony power, for both International success and accomplishment back on home turf. Jamie, who came second in the Mongol Derby last year, now faces a new kind of adventure as married life awaits.

After the ceremony the recently got engaged at Oktoberfest. Stud, is a 4 goal player. They join Torrey and his eldest son to make a full complement of Dorseys for a polo team! The party began with some polo on the main grounds in front of the Clubhouse, just to round off the season nicely, before guests, made up of members, friends, players, grooms and professionals, took to the dancefloor to shake a tail feather. Pig out at Cheshire! The evening provided a great chance for the visiting teams to meet and get to know each other, while enjoying delicious food and maybe a drink or two.

For those in need of more entertainment, a rodeo bull provided thrills and spills for guests throughout the night. For a full report and results, turn to page It was pedal to the metal in Sotogrande as the impressive and intense Summer Season got underway in early August. Santa Maria Polo Club hosted the 44th Land Rover International Polo Tournament at its various luxury locations dotted around Sotogrande, and with the Bronze, Silver and Gold Cups at low, medium and high goal levels all going on there was little time to think of much else.

Some of the best teams in the world gathered in the beautiful South of Spain where the sun was no stranger and the spectacle drew in audiences from all over — locals and holidaymakers alike. The competition was fierce and the polo non-stop after hundreds of polo ponies and their extensive entourages descended on the area in July. Photography by Katie Vickery. A hog roast and beats supplied by DJ James Park let the cowboys, cats, gypsies and cowgirls celebrate well into the night. Everyone was welcome, whether dressed in party frocks or post-polo whites and team jackets, and great fun was had by all.

Guests enjoyed a pitch-side glass of Royal Salute followed by a traditional afternoon tea, while watching displays of Brompton Bicycle Polo and, of course, the Anglo-Asian action on the pitch. An Argentinian asado and accompanying party continued into the early hours.

The aim of the challenge is to race a ball up the pitch, over two jumps and through a goal. Five-second time penalties are awarded for mis-hits, run-outs, knock-downs, failure to hit the ball through the jump and inferior fancy dress. This year, Alice Bagley was the deserved winner on her pony Victoria. The match afterwards saw players take to the pitch in loosely organized teams. With a few mid-chukka defections and many home goals, it was eventually decided that all should be awarded one point for the summer league tables.

UK Arena dates for October: Rugby — T-Bone Challenge Open: October 31 — 1 November. Tortugas — Tortugas Open: September 29 — 18 October Hurlingham — nd Hurlingham Open: October 20 — 8 November Palermo — nd Argentine Open: November 21 — 12 December. In he won with Outback J. MacWets are fast becoming the most popular riding glove—with Ollie Townend, Ben Mayer and Zara Phillips being regular wearers of the brand. Critically the convoy carried a large amount of Persian silver and British gold coins, and the need for adequate protection of this treasure was soon to constrain Dunsterville's actions.

After struggles through snowdrifts the 41 Ford cars reached Kermanshah on 3 February. Here Dunsterville made contact with 1, Russian Cossacks under the command of Colonel Lazar Bicherakov, a courageous and charismatic Ossetian who was to be a staunch ally of the British in northern Persia and the Caucasus. Bicherakov and his Caucasian Cossacks were fiercely anti-Bolshevik.

Clutterbuck was a Russian language specialist and popular with the Cossacks; the New Zealanders were from an Australian and New Zealand wireless squadron. Dunsterforce men Australians in slouch hats in Persia. Dunsterville pushed on the next day, now accompanied by one of Bicherakov's officers acting as a guide. Due to snowfalls the convoy did not reach Hamadan until 11 February, although Dunsterville rode ahead and reached the town four days earlier.

Fortunately the road being followed was an ancient trade route and old serais, designed to shelter passing camel caravans, were located along the way. Dunsterforce camp at Hamadan. This force had performed well as part of the Imperial Russian Army and had pushed a Turkish advance out of Persia and back into Mesopotamia. But now Baratov's command had disintegrated and most of his remaining soldiers refused to accept orders as they tried to get home.

Dunsterville carefully negotiated seperately with Bicherakov and Baratov. He paid Baratov for items of military equipment purchased and he paid Bicherakov when he needed the Cossacks to fight. Dunsterforce car and driver. Whilst the convoy re-organised at Hamadan Captain Goldsmith was sent ahead again to reconnoitre the route to Enzeli and locate petrol supplies.

In the event George Goldsmith then parted from Dunsterforce, as he successfully reached Enzeli on the Caspian Sea, took a boat to Baku and then the train to Tiflis where he joined Colonel Pike. After Geoffrey Pike was killed during a fight between Bolsheviks and Terek Cossacks in August , Goldsmith became Acting Commanding Officer of the Caucasus Military Agency until he was arrested by Bolsheviks two months later; but long before those events Dunsterforce's mission had been re-focused away from Tiflis.

Dunsterville left Hamadan on 14 February when a pass immediately ahead was cleared of snow and his convoy, now including Cecil Singer's armoured car, made good time down an excellent Russian-constructed road to Kasvin. This was an important town of 50, inhabitants and the road to Tehran, the Persian capital, forked eastwards from there. The Jangali revolutionary leader, Mirza Kuchik Khan, had vowed not to let the British through his region. Kuchik Khan, like many Persians had felt humiliated by the Anglo-Russian Convention of that was used to allow 'Spheres of Influence' to be created in Persia, the Russian sphere being almost the entire north of the country and the British sphere being in the south-east, adjacent to the Indian border.

So far the Jangalis had resisted attempts by both the Tehran government and the local Russian forces to destroy them.

A German mission under Colonel von Passchen was training Kuchik Khan's men who were equipped with rifles and Turkish machine guns. The British convoy drove on towards the Caspian on 16 February, pushing its way through hordes of Russian pro-Bolshevik soldiers who had demobilised themselves and who just wanted to go home with whatever booty they could carry. The convoy crossed the bridge at Menjil and drove on to Resht, not knowing that both locations would shortly have to be fought over.

The cars then drove to Enzeli on the Caspian Sea where trouble started to mount. A repair team works on a British armoured car. At that time Belgians managed the Persian customs for the weak Persian central government, just as Swedes managed the Persian Gendarmerie. After negotiations, which Dunsterville always preferred before military action because of the weakness of his force, the realisation came home that the convoy was not going to be allowed to board a ship and, even if it did, then the Bolsheviks controlling Baku would arrest Dunsterville and his men on arrival at that port.

To stay in Enzeli was to invite destruction at the hands of Bolsheviks and Jangalis with the consequent loss of the treasure chests that were to finance anti-Central Powers military activity in the Caucasus. Dunsterville maintained good relations with the Bolsheviks controlling Enzeli, obtaining all the petrol he needed, and before dawn on 20 February his convoy was back on the road to Hamdan. Later that day a detachment of Red Guards arrived at Enzeli from Baku, just too late to accomplish its mission of arresting the British soldiers. At Resht, Dunsterville learned that the reason why his convoy had not been attacked on the Enzeli-Resht road was because the Jangalis had been uncertain whether or not the withdrawing Russians would fight alongside the British.

Dunsterville chose Hamadan as his firm base because of its strategic location within Persia and its healthy climate, and here he spent time explaining his intentions to the local Persian administrators and attempting to secure their support for his activities. This was a delicate task as Persia was still a neutral country and most Persians resented the constant intrusions onto Persian soil practised by both the Allies and the Central Powers. Dunsterville received orders through the Russian wireless station, from London via Baghdad, to remain where he was, monitor the situation inside Persia, and to advance when he could.

Many more stores, particularly petrol, oil and lubricants were brought up. This was much to the exasperation of General Marshall who had to watch most of his motor transport being deployed into Persia, although as Commander of the Mesopotamia Theatre he was not being required to mount significant operational activity at that time. A severe famine was prevailing in western Persia because of predations by Turkish and Persian troops during the previous years that were now compounded by the avarice of local speculative traders, and people were dying in the streets and barren fields.

Cases of cannibalism in Hamadan were being reported. Dunsterforce embarked on a large programme of famine-relief work, employing Persians on civil construction projects, particularly road improvements. Another activity was the recruiting and training of local levies and bands of irregulars; theoretically, the levies would be able to guard vulnerable points anywhere whilst the irregulars would defend their own villages. Meanwhile Turkish military instructors were busily at work training their own militias in villages surrounding Hamadan, and Russian troop movements were being attacked whilst British officers were occasionally sniped at from a distance.

Meanwhile in Baku the Bolshevik and Armenian defenders were resisting the advance of the Turkish Third Army and they were being assisted in this by German refusals to allow Turkish troops onto the Tiflis-Baku railway. In the southern Caucasus the situation deteriorated by the week as the Georgians became increasingly accommodating towards the Germans and the Turks began transiting through Armenia into Azerbaijan, and it was Dunsterville's opinion that only Allied military units and formations could influence the situation now - British instructors and gold would only complicate and exacerbate it.

Bicherakov now decided that as the snow was clearing he would take his men out of Persia to pursue anti-Bolshevik activities in the Caucasus, but Dunsterville persuaded him to delay the move, promising to support the Cossack march to Enzeli with British armoured cars and aircraft which were now flying into Hamadan. Meanwhile, to counter both the progress and the propaganda activities of the Turkish Ninth Army and German training teams in Persia who were proclaiming German success on the Western Front, Dunsterville sent out two small missions to both show the Allied flag and to search for tribal leaders who might be prepared to fight the Turkish advance from Tabriz.

Starnes was also tasked with trying to make contact with a large Jelu community, the name given to a combined group of Armenians and Assyrian Christians that was isolated but successfully resisting Turkish advances around Lake Urmiah. The military priority was to secure the Mesopotamia-Enzeli road. This instruction was modified to allow Dunsterville or one or more of his officers to go to Baku, at General Marshall's discretion, to reconnoitre the task of demolishing Baku's oil wells.

General Marshall was to find the troops needed by Dunsterforce. But Lionel Dunsterville was never to get the troops he needed to complete the tasks that he would undertake and by now many of his men were dispersed around northern Persia on intelligence, famine-relief and training duties. This brigade had been formed in England from a Royal Navy Air Service armoured car unit that had been serving in Russia until When this detachment arrived it would patrol the line of communication whilst Bicherakov seized Enzeli.

However the movements of DUNCARS were restricted by a shortage of lubricants and spare parts in Mesopotamia and by the Rubberine tyres, designed for Russian cold-weather use, solidifying in the Persian heat and breaking back axles. The attitudes of both London and General Marshall became more flexible over Baku in early June, both parties agreeing that Dunsterville could decide what force to send to Baku, but that General Marshall would retain overall command of Dunsterforce operations.

But a week later the uncertainty over exactly what Dunsterforce was expected to achieve surfaced again when General Wilson in London expressed doubts about how long a British force in Baku could survive against a determined Turkish attack backed by the local Muslim Tartar community that was strongly pro-Turk and anti-Armenian; in the event this was a prescient comment but it displayed a difference in opinion between the Generals in London and the politicians on the Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. The British wanted control of the Caspian Sea, but they shied away from the reality that Baku had to be held by a military force in order to maintain that control; Lionel Dunsterville was left to make the new policy work as best he could whilst his military masters commenced distancing themselves from possible failure.

On 10 June, negotiations with Kuchik Khan to persuade him to become neutral having failed, Dunsterforce marched out to fight. Bicherakov's column consisting of two squadrons of Cossack cavalry and a detachment of infantry, a section of Russian mountain artillery plus 'C' Squadron 14th The King's Hussars, advanced towards Resht with the British squadron leading. In support were two British armoured cars and two British aeroplanes.

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At Menjil, half way to the Caspian, was a metre long, 5-span girder bridge over the Kizil Uzun River that the Jangalis were defending with an estimated 2, men and several machine guns. However the Jangali defences were poorly sited and vital ground was not occupied despite the presence of Colonel von Passchen. To test the determination of the defences the two aircraft flew overhead without firing and were met by widespread Jangali rifle fire.

Bicherakov then led his men towards the bridge and dispersed a Jangali picquet by shouting and waving his stick at it. Von Passchen appeared under a flag of truce demanding a parley in an attempt to separate the Cossacks from the British troops but Bicherakov verbally dismissed him. Once von Passchen was out of the way the Russian gunners opened fire, the Cossack cavalry moved towards the enemy's right whilst the armoured cars engaged from his left and the infantry advanced. This caused the Jangalis on the near side of the river to flee from their trenches towards the bridge where many stragglers were captured.

All the Jangalis now fled from their positions and Bicherakov's column pursued them for 16 kilometres towards Resht. Bicherakov and his Cossacks pushed on to Enzeli after reorganising, leaving detachments at Resht and two other points on the road. Dunsterville needed to get more men forward from Hamadan before he could secure his line of communications whilst he advanced.

The battalion and the gunners were titled 'Matthews' Column'. Some of the Hampshires now joined Dunsterville but the Jangalis, their morale recovered, gave them a warm welcome on 18 June by successfully ambushing a party on a small bridge at Siah Rud.

Captain R C Durnford was killed and six men were wounded. Three days later another successful Jangali ambush was sprung. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty between Menjil and Resht, Persia on 21 June, He was in command of a convoy of 66 vans which was heavily attacked by hostile irregulars. Eight vans were put out of action, but by his entire disregard of danger and good conduct he managed to salve them. Later, on three occasions he went out with a small party under fire and salved four more vans which had been abandoned. Then the Gurkhas became involved and the fight-back began.

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Stahmd Bridge, Persia, on 29 June He organised and executed a brilliantly successful attack on an enemy position, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy at very slight cost to his own force. He displayed marked ability and initiative, coolly meeting every contingency that arose with marked courage and skill. The prominent use of Gurkha kukhris during this action gave the Jangalis something to think about but they were still prepared to attack as events in Resht during the next month showed.

Elsewhere at this time there were reported to be around 2, Turkish troops in Tabriz, and Wagstaff's mission was ordered to establish itself at Mianeh and to patrol forward of there. A British officer from the Dunsterforce watches a Russian instructing a group of Persian police at Resht. The Resht area was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Matthews from a British camp sited just outside the town. London now became critical both of Dunsterville's perceived lack of action and of his failure to communicate regularly with Marshall.

Dunsterville was expected to seize Enzeli by force from the Bolsheviks, and he was not to rely so heavily on Bicherakov who might prove to be untrustworthy. London impressed upon Marshall that now his most important area of operations was north-western Persia, as control of the Caspian was vital, and the British were contemplating purchasing the accumulated stock of cotton held in Krasnovodsk, the port opposite Baku on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

A strategic assessment of Turkey's current war aims indicated that the Turks now accepted the loss of their Arabian provinces so they were attempting to compensate by moving eastwards into Turkic Asia. A further legitimate concern both to London, the Indian government in Delhi and the British Ambassador in Persia was that 38, Austrian and Hungarian prisoners of war held in Central Asia were being released and armed by the Bolsheviks.