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16 December 2010

38 winners for Iffraaj

If You Whisper becomes the latest successful runner for his outstanding young sire

Iffraaj , Europe’s most successful first-season sire ever, further increased his number of winners on 16 December, when If You Whisper justified odds-on favouritism

12 December 2010

Shamardal records yet another black type win in 2010

Four-year-old Shamardal mare Premardal salutes in the Starstruck Classic over a mile at Ascot, Australia

Off the back of a devastating length-and-a-half victory last start, four-year-old Shamardal mare Premardal

4 December 2010

12 winners for Librettist

Amazon Twilight makes it a dozen for her first-season sire

First-season sire Librettist took his tally of winners to 12 on 4 December, when his daughter Amazon Twilight ran out the ready winner of

27 November 2010

Listed victory for Cape Cross gelding

Riggins dead-heats in Kempton’s Hyde Stakes; more black type for Exceed And Excel's Nideeb

Cape Cross six-year-old Riggins provided a dream start to the career of Ed Walker when the gelding dead-heated for first

27 November 2010

Top lot for Singspiel, top filly for Dubawi

Six-figure foals for first-season sires New Approach and Raven’s Pass

The third session of Tattersalls' December Foal sale was billed to be the strongest day and it certainly lived to expectations with no fewer than 27 foals fetching six-figure sums.

26 November 2010

Iffraaj extends first-season record

Dunmore Boy becomes his 37th winner of the year

Less than a week after Europe’s leading freshman sire Iffraaj passed Invincible Spirit’s record for the number of individual first-crop winne

22 November 2010

New Stakes winner for Shamardal

Clairvoyance becomes the 22nd Black type winner for her sire this year

Shamardal's outstanding year continued on 22 November when his first-crop daughter Clairvoyance ran out the convincing winner of the Listed Prix Contessina at Font

21 November 2010

It’s official: Iffraaj is the best

Darley stallion records his 36th individual winner to become Europe’s most successful first-season sire ever

Iffraaj officially became Europe’s most successful first-season sire ever on 21 November, beating the previous record set by Invincible Spirit when his son Dixlesio

20 November 2010

Second G3 victory for Elle Shadow

Daughter of Shamardal lands the Hessan Pokal at Dortmund; Nideeb (Exceed And Excel) wins the Listed Churchill Stakes; ten winners for Shirocco

Shamardal's three-year-old daughter Elle Shadow has been a model of consistency for her sire, finishing out of the first three just once in nine starts and on 20 N

19 November 2010

First Raven’s Pass foals in Europe find favour

Pair sold at Goffs for €90,000 and €80,000

A week after six Raven's Pass yearlings each made six-figure sums at Keeneland, the first foals by the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner to sell in Eur