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Amalfi Bay
5yo b g - Lope De Vega ex Affinity Trained by Anthony Honeyball.
A son of French Classic winner and world-class sire Lope De Vega, this gelding is out of middle-distance winner Affinity (by Sadler’s Wells), a ½-sister to five-time Gr.1 winner Soviet Song and Gr.1 Triumph Hurdle winner Penzance. A winner of two middle-distance Flat handicaps at Epsom to date, Amalfi Bay is a ½-brother to three winners, including Zest (four wins, Listed-placed) and Harmonica (two wins, Listed-placed), and switched codes when he moved to Anthony Honeyball in December 2022, to go hurdling.
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Charmaine
2yo b f - Camelot ex Zest Trained by James Fanshawe.
Charmaine is by the outstanding Camelot, a Gr. 1-winning two-year-old who won the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and Irish Derby, and only just missed out on becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Nijinsky when second in the St Leger. Camelot is the sire of the Irish Champion Stakes winner Luxembourg (bred on a similar cross to Charmaine), and Irish Classic winners Even So and Latrobe. James Fanshawe trained Charmaine’s dam, the useful winner and Listed-placed Zest, and Charmaine’s grandam is a ½-sister (by Sadler’s Wells) to World Champion Mare Soviet Song and Triumph Hurdle winner Penzance. Charmaine looks a quality, athletic filly and is not dissimilar to her mother.
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First Of May
3yo b f - Mayson ex Roubles Trained by James Fanshawe.
This filly is the first granddaughter of the Club’s superstar racemare, Soviet Song. Being the first foal out of a small mare, it is encouraging that she is not overly small herself, and she looks strong and soon built on her encouraging third on her racecourse debut at Leicester last year, when winning at Newcastle two months later. She has already bettered that form with two wins at Wolverhampton, in May and October 2023.
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General Medrano
6yo b g - Ocovango ex Talween Trained by Emma Lavelle.
General Medrano is a lovely type by Ocovango, the sire of dual Gr.3 hurdles winner Langer Dan, and was purchased by Elite Syndicates after finishing an eyecatching third in a NH Flat race for point-to-point horses at Punchestown in March 2021.
General Medrano showed promise in his first three runs for Emma Lavelle. Following a wind operation, he impressed when easily winning a maiden hurdle at Fontwell in February 2023, and when a close fourth in the £100,000 novices' handicap hurdle at Sandown in April. He showed he is on an upward curve with two wins from two starts over fences since the summer break and is an exciting chasing prospect.
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Harmoniser
2yo b g - Sea The Moon ex Harmonica Trained by Roger Varian.
Harmoniser is the first Club horse to be placed with leading and Classic-winning trainer Roger Varian. He is by Sea The Moon, a highly-impressive German Derby winner and sire of many useful Group race winners, most notably the Coronation Stakes winner Alpine Star. Harmoniser’s dam Harmonica was a useful winner on the Flat and was also placed in a Listed race. This gelding, who moves well but still has some growing and maturing to do at this stage and is bred to come into his own as a three-year-old and beyond, is a grandson of the Club’s foundation mare Kalinka, whose line has produced the Gr. 1 Flat winners Soviet Song, Ribbons and Marsha.
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Mighty Quiet
2yo b f - Ulysses ex Kind Of Hush Trained by Harry and Roger Charlton.
Mighty Quiet is by the regally-bred stallion Ulysses (a son of Galileo out of Oaks winner Light Shift), a high-class winner of the Coral-Eclipse and Juddmonte International Stakes who has produced the Gr. 1 performers Piz Badile and Holloway Bay. Mighty Quiet’s dam Kind Of Hush has quite a nice pedigree but showed modest form on the racecourse and has produced one winner to date, the two-year-old nursery handicap winner Maurice Dancer.
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New Statesman
2yo b c - Churchill ex Madison Trained by Ed Walker.
New Statesman becomes the first Club horse with Gr. 1-winning trainer Ed Walker. He is a son of the successful young sire Churchill, a European Champion Two-Year-Old and dual Classic winner at three, whose best runners to date are the French star Vadeni and last year’s Gr. 1-winning two-year-old filly Blue Rose Cen. His dam, the late Madison, comes from the Club’s highly-successful Kalinka line and her only other runner is the promising filly Zapphire. New Statesman is bred on the tried and tested Galileo (Churchill’s sire) and Danehill Dancer (Madison’s grandsire) cross, and he is a very nice colt with great athleticism and good muscle mass.
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Overture
2yo ch f - New Approach ex Tribute Act Trained by Sir Mark Prescott.
Overture’s dam Tribute Act was a very useful racehorse, winning three times and also finishing a wonderful second in the Gr. 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot, making the daughter of Exceed And Excel an outstanding broodmare prospect as a ½-sister to the Gr. 1 winner Ribbons. Overture is by the multiple Gr. 1 and Derby winner New Approach, who as a sire has produced many Gr. 1 winners, including Classic winners Masar, Dawn Approach, Mac Swiney and Talent. Overture is an impressive-looking filly, with good conformation, and her breeding and looks suggest that she will be seen to best effect as a three-year-old and beyond.
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Quiet Sea
3yo b f - Sea The Moon ex Kind Of Hush Trained by Harry and Roger Charlton.
This filly appears to have a sounder temperament, more size and to be a later-maturing type than her previous two siblings of racing age (which include the juvenile Flat winner Maurice Dancer). Her well-bred sire Sea The Moon was high-class over middle distances, impressively winning the German Derby. His progeny generally stay longer distances and have plenty of quality, his best runner to date being the Gr. 1-winning filly Alpine Star.
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Sarsen
5yo gr g - Noble Mission ex Kelley Marie. Trained by Anthony Honeyball.
An attractive grey from a family stacked full of winners in the United States, by Frankel's Gr.1-winning brother Noble Mission, a winner of the Champion Stakes and now a Gr.1-producing sire. Sarsen showed some promise in three NH Flat races, finishing fourth on his racecourse debut at Market Rasen, prior to finishing an encouraging second on his debut over hurdles in June. He is training with Anthony Honeyball at his Potwell Farm Stables in Dorset.
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Tiffany
3yo b f - Farhh ex Affinity Trained by Sir Mark Prescott.
This filly is an athletic type by the dual Gr. 1-winner Farhh and she has lived up to her pedigree this season. By a Champion Stakes (1m2f) winner and out of a 1m4f winner by Sadler’s Wells, she improved on her seasonal debut in 2023 when recording her first win in a 7f novice stakes at Wolverhampton in June. Since then she has stepped up in trip and won three more races, including a Listed race at Hanover, Germany, on 17 September. Tiffany should be an exciting filly in middle distance races in 2024.
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Zapphire
3yo b f - Zoffany ex Madison Trained by Julie Camacho.
The first foal out of the late Madison, Zapphire is a nice, athletic and medium-sized filly with a useful pedigree. Madison came from the Club’s successful Kalinka line, which produced the Gr. 1 winners Soviet Song, Ribbons and Marsha. This filly is by the late Zoffany, a son of Dansili and a useful sire, including of 2021 1,000 Guineas winner Mother Earth. Zapphire had one run as a two-year-old, when finishing a very eyecatching third (of 11) in a novice stakes at Newcastle in November 2022. This season, she has improved for the switch to handicaps and won over 7f at Haydock in August.