MILLY OF THE VALLY, owned by The Kingwood Partnership, gave birth to a beautiful bay filly on 30thJanuary. This filly is her second foal by MEDICEAN, the first being the successful DOCTOR SCOTT who won four races and was 4th in 2 Listed races as a two-year-old. She is also the dam of Group and Listed winners SCOTT’S VIEW and MAC MELODY.
MILLY OF THE VALLY is visiting NAYEF this year.
MILLY OF THE VALLY with her foal by MEDICEAN at 1 week
SABLONNE (SILVER HAWK ex DESERT JEWEL) chose one of the very few days this winter that dawned fine and bright to give birth to a very attractive filly foal by ROYAL APPLAUSE who weighed in at 47 kilos. Her owner, Chris Stedman, is hoping that this filly will follow in the footsteps of multiple Group winner TICKER TAPE who is also by ROYAL APPLAUSE and is bred on the same cross.
In 2007 SABLONNE had her first foal, a colt by BERING and this year she is visiting SINGSPIEL.
FLEET STREET (1999 gelding by WOLFHOUND ex FARMER’S PET) is our first winner for 2008. Trained by Nicky Henderson and owned by Henry Ponsonby he has now won 4 races from 11 starts, this being his first success over fences. FLEET STREET was bought by Fiona Marner in Germany and won his first race after arriving in England.
The year 2007 was our most successful season numerically having record 48 individual winners of 85 races worldwide who were either bred, bought or consigned by Kingwood Stud. Among these winners were 4 Listed successes: GREEN MANALISHI, DUBAI’S TOUCH (twice) and CLASSIC LEGEND.
Our two-year-old winners included FOURPENNY LANE (EFISIO ex MAKARA) who won two races, ROYAL CONFIDENCE (ROYAL APPLAUSE ex NEVER A DOUBT) also the winner of 2 races, TAURIAN (ZAMINDAR ex MOON CARNIVAL) who excelled himself by winning 3 races, and the previously mentioned CLASSIC LEGEND (GALILEO ex LADY LAHAR) who won 2 races from 2 starts, the second of which was the Listed EBF Montrose FIllies Stakes at Newmarket. Her trainer, Brian Meehan, hopes that this year she will prove effective in top class middle distance races.
ROYAL CONFIDENCE is out of one of our resident mares NEVER A DOUBT who is in foal to RED RANSOM. They are both owned by Barbara and Derek James. ROYAL CONFIDENCE was also placed twice in Group company including 3rd in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes and 4th in the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes.
Other multiple winners include the Mark Johnston trained DEE CEE ELLE (GROOM DANCER ex MISSOURI) 3 wins, and the Mark Tompkins trained GEE DEE NEN (MISTER BAILEYS ex SPECIAL BEAT) 3 wins. Stars on the all-weather include RUSSKI (FASILYEV ex ROSE OF MOONCOIN) 3 wins, MAMBAZO (DANSILI ex KALINDI)3 wins and MAJEHAR (MARJU ex JOONAYH) 4 wins.
A world trip will take in winners in Germany, Italy, Norway, Austria and Japan. CAP HORN (MTOTO ex TABYAN) won no less than 5 races in Italy. His dam TABYAN is owned by Mountgrange Stud and her 1992 colt, CAP JULUCA (MTOTO), also raised at Kingwood Stud, was the winner of 7 races including the Listed Gala Stakes and the Cambridgeshire carrying the record weight of 9st 10lbs. LUNAR WIND (PICCOLO ex FARAWAY MOON) won two races in Austria and ZETTO FLASH (FANTASTIC LIGHT ex ROHITA) flew the flag for us in Japan winning the most incredible amount of Yen !
Fiona & Christian Marner and the staff at Kingwood Stud would like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
It will not be long before we will be able to report on our first foals of 2008 and early on the list will be MILLY OF THE VALLY (in foal to MEDICEAN) and ROYALE ROSE (in foal to MOTIVATOR). Both mares are due in January.
CLASSIC LEGEND (by GALILEO out of LADY LAHAR) was reared and consigned by Kingwood Stud. She was bought by McKeever St. Lawrence at last year’s Goffs Orby Million Yearling Sale for €140,000 to go into training with Brian Meehan. CLASSIC LEGEND made it two wins from two starts when winning the Listed Montrose Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday beating previous winner JAZZ JAM and 5/4 favourite QUEEN OF NAPLES in courageous style.
CLASSIC LEGEND and her dam LADY LAHAR were bred by Barry Walters. LADY LAHAR was trained by Mick Channon and won three times including the Group 3 King of Kings Futurity Stakes at the Curragh. Her 2004 colt, KILBURN, by GRAND LODGE won as a two-year-old and her 2006 colt by MONTJEU was sold at this year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 to BBA Ireland for 160,000 gns and is to be trained by Stuart Williams.
FIZZY TREAT, a winner herself of two races, has bred her first winner from her first foal. FORMIDABLE GUEST, trained by Jeff Pearce in Newmarket, won a three-year-old handicap at Lingfield yesterday in good style.
FIZZY TREAT’s two-year-old, NUMISSUS, is in training with Tracy Collins in Ireland but is at present unraced. Her yearling by MONSIEUR BOND was bought by Jamie Osborne at Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and her 2007 foal is a bay filly by BACHELOR DUKE.
Shareholders in the Kingwood Partnership will all no doubt be glued to their televisions tomorrow evening at 8.20 p.m. to watch the Grade 1 Breeders’ CUp Mile from Monmouth Park. They will be hoping to see EXCELLENT ART finish his great season with a win. His two most recent runs in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood and the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot resulted in two very close seconds, beaten only a head in the first and half a length in the second. EXCELLENT ART has never finished out of the first four and his wins include the Listed National Stakes, the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes and the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes.
EXCELLENT ART is half brother to the Kingwood Partnership’s mare, DANCE SOLO and will be three parts brother to the foal by PIVOTAL that DANCE SOLO is carrying. So a win on tomorrow would be a very welcome update for DANCE SOLO’s pedigree.
Kingwood Stud held their annual Parade of Yearlings yesterday. The day was a great success, on a lovely but rather cold autumnal day. Owners and trainers arrived at noon and first on stage were the four mares and two foals belonging to The Kingwood Partnership (see The Kingwood Partnership page for details). These were followed by the 21 yearlings that will be heading for the Tattersalls October Sales, Books 1, 2 and 3.
Among the choice group of yearlings were fillies by DUBAI DESTINATION, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, FANTASTIC LIGHT, ROYAL APPLAUSE, HAAFHD, ONCE COOL CAT, MONSIEUR BOND, BAHAMIAN BOUNTY, TRANS ISLAND and COMPTON PLACE and colts by DIKTAT, MONTJEU, SELKIR, INDIAN HAVEN, NAYEF, KYLLACHY, BAHAMIAN BOUNTY, BACHELOR DUKE DIESIS and FRAAM (see our Bloodstock Sales page for further details.)
There was a lot of interest in three particularly good looking colts by MONTJEU out of LADY LAHAR, DIKTAT out of the brilliant race mare GOLDEN SILCA, and INDIAN HAVEN out of SPECIFICALLY. This very athletic yearling is half brother to the 1000 Guineas heroine SPECIOSA.
Bay Colt by INDIAN HAVEN ex SPECIFICALLY
The horses all looked magnificent and hopefully some of the asssembled crowd will be bidding for them in a couple of weeks. The parade was followed by a delicious lunch supplied by George Webb and her staff from Mange 2 in Alresford.
We are haopy to report that the last of the tests following the case of strangles at the Stud are all negative. The yearlings destined for the Tattersalls October Sales have now come into the yard and their preparation is at full steam ahead. We have 21 yearlings entered in the sales and the first batch for Book 1 will be heading for Newmarket next Friday. Details of all the sales entries can be found on our website under Bloodstock Sales.
SILCA CHIAVE arrived at Kingwood Stud from Mick Channon’s this morning to begin her new career as a broodmare. During her racing career SILCA CHIAVE was the winner of one race and placed 2nd in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, beaten a short head and 3rd in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Sadly she met with an injury to her off hind hock and had to be retired early.
SILCA CHIAVE is by the top class sire PIVOTAL out of SILCA-CISA whose offspring include GOLDEN SILCA, GREEN MANALISHI and SILCA’S SISTER, all of whom have won Group or Listed races. This year SILCA-CISA has a chestnut colt by PIVOTAL.
GOLDEN SILCA, who is also at Kingwood Stud, is the winner of 7 races including the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes and she was placed 17 times including 2nd in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes and the Irish 1000 Guineas. She has an exceptionally good looking strong a chesnut filly by SHAMARDAL.
The Silca Girls by the outstanding artist Katie O’Sullivan.
From left to right: GOLDEN SILCA, SILCA-CISA and SILCA’S SISTER.