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14 News 68 The leading stud farm in Libya has
French first-timers 96 Aisling Crowe moves on to examine
the major new French and German-based
sires standing for 2020
Making Mischief
Melissa Bauer-Herzog chats with Spendthrift Farm’s Ned Toffey about its champion sire Into Mischief and the farm’s exciting new recruits
Stakes-winning sires
The final alphabetical list of 2019’s sires of stakes winners
been decimated, new measures to be introduced for bloodstock sales,
Sally Duckett believes banning the whip will lead to the demise of racing, while Badger looks far ahead to 2030
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After the Christmas jumps action,
Milan and Yeats are heading up the NH sires’ table. Will this new look
to the British and Irish jumps’ table remain to the end of the season?
27 Stallion stats
Leading NH statistics from Weatherbys
28 Eastern delights
Simon Rowlands reports on a fabulous end to 2019 for Japan with a Group 1 treble in Hong Kong and a wide-margin win in the Arima Kinen for Lys Gracieux
34 Dawn of a new beginning
Q & A with Tom Ryan, the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia’s director of strategy and international racing, about February’s Saudi Cup, the world’s richest race
42 New stallions 2020
Too Darn Hot heads the list of new sires for 2020. Aisling Crowe provides racing and pedigree analysis for this year’s crop of first-season sires in Britain and Ireland
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W is for Arc winner
New sire Waldgeist’s Arc success was 103 the culmination of a family that has been
nine generations in the breeding
111 Stakes-winning dam sires
In reverse, Hyperion provide a final list of stakes-winning dam sires of 2019
118 Photos of the month
Magic Millions winner Away Game
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Breeders eying the international market
The French bloodstock boom sees an improvement in quality, yet numbers remain static, writes Jocelyn de Moubray in his European stallion review
Bonjour!
Says Haras de la Barbottière to its exciting new sires for 2020, Donjuan Triumphant and Robin Of Navan
Too Darn Hot Photo by PA Images