DAVID & DIANE NAGLE,

Barronstown Stud

Jan Brueghel (Ire), 2021 c. by Galileo out of Devoted To You, by Danehill Dancer

A COUPLE who won the inaugural Connolly’s Red Mills/The Irish Field Breeder of the Year Award, David and Diane Nagle have bred an endless list of Group 1 and classic winners, and representing them on this occasion is Jan Brueghel.

The four-year-old was beaten on his reappearance this year, when second in the Group 3 Alleged Stakes. This was a first defeat for last year’s winner of the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster. Jan Brueghel redeemed himself with a battling victory in the Group 1 Coronation Cup at Epsom.

Bred in Co Wicklow by David and Diane Nagle at their Barronstown Stud, Jan Brueghel became the 101st Group 1 winner for Galileo when he recorded his classic success. Galileo died in the year of Jan Brueghel’s birth.

Jan Brueghel is the second classic winner for his dam, the Group 2-placed Devoted To You, after Sovereign. A full-brother to Jan Brueghel, Sovereign won the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby. Devoted To You carried the colours of Diane Nagle to a maiden success at Galway, before running second to Lillie Langtry in the Group 2 Debutante Stakes at Leopardstown.

Sovereign and Jan Brueghel are not the first classic winners in the immediate removes of this female line. Their third dam bred Balanchine, and she added the Group 1 Irish Derby to a prior success in the Group 1 Oaks at Epsom.

JAMES CLONEY Cn Farm Ltd

Camille Pissarro (Ire), 2022 c. by Wootton Bassett out of Entreat, by Pivotal

WHATEVER else he does in life, Co Kilkenny pharmacist James Cloney will never spend 14,000gns more wisely than he did at the Tattersalls July Sale in 2016. In search of a mare by Pivotal, he acquired a winner named Entreat who was being culled by her breeders, Cheveley Park Stud.

Entreat was in foal to Lethal Force, and the offspring turned out to be a colt who sold as a yearling for £65,000. Named Golden Horde, he became his sire’s first and only Group 1 winner when he added Royal Ascot’s Commonwealth Cup at three to his juvenile triumph in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes. Entreat was also making waves with other offspring, but there was excitement when she had a colt in 2022 by Wootton Bassett, among the first Irish-conceived crop by the sire, at a fee of €100,000.

Camille Pissarro is the colt’s name and he is arguably the best of Entreat’s eight winning offspring. He was already a star when he sold as a yearling for 1,250,000gns to M.V. Magnier and Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm at Tattersalls.

Last year, Camille Pissarro was rated the best juvenile in France after he won the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, and this season he built on his placed effort in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains-French 2000 Guineas with a fine victory in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby. His earnings are approaching his yearling purchase price, while his value is many, many multiples.

JAMES HANLY

Ombudsman (Ire), 2021 c. by Night Of Thunder out of Syndicate, by Dansili

ANTHONY Stroud did a fine bit of business for Ballyhimikin Stud’s James Hanly in 2017 when he purchased Syndicate for 25,000gns. She had run six times, was a winner and twice runner-up at two, and had a very solid dam side.

James did not head to stud immediately with her, and instead raced her in his wife Charlotte’s name, and she won again. She had a filly as her first foal, American Belle by (Starspangledbanner, who won twice for James Fanshaw.

Next up was a colt by Night Of Thunder, and he sold for 340,000gns in Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale, selected by Anthony Stroud. That was money well spent, as the colt, named Ombudsman, was an impressive winner of Royal Ascot’s Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes. Unraced at two, he was unbeaten at three and won a Group 3 in France, and now he has jumped many rungs up the ladder.

When Ombudsman’s full-sister went for sale last year, she was bought for 900,000gns. She is named Synchronicity, while Hanly has a yearling half-sister by Ten Sovereigns. Syndicate has two stakes-winning siblings, and both are her full-brothers. Runnymede won 11 races including a Group 3 in Italy and a listed race in Germany, while Stipulate won listed races at Newmarket and in Australia.

Ombudsman’s fourth dam was the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp winner All At Sea,

JOHN MAGNIER, Coolmore

Lambourn (Ire), 2022 c. by Australia out of Gossamer Wings, by Scat Daddy, and Whirl (Ire), 2022 f. by Wootton Bassett out of Salsa, by Galileo

JUNE 2025 has been a memorable one for Coolmore and their partners, as breeders and owners. As befits an organisation that has immediate access to some of the world’s best stallions, and has a broodmare band that is simply mouthwatering in terms of class, victory at the highest levels is what their business is all about.

The past month has given them a homebred Derby double with Lambourn, a feat that they also achieved with the colt’s sire Australia, and his grandsire, Galileo. The trio are among just 20 colts to register this double, and all three were trained for John Magnier and his partners by Aidan O’Brien.

Whirl, meanwhile, came close to winning the Oaks at Epsom, but made amends when she won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Lambourn is the second foal and first winner for Gossamer Wings, who cost $500,000 as a yearling and was beaten a whisker in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot. She has 10 winning siblings, and three of them were successful at stakes level.

Whirl is the first foal out of Salsa, a winning full-sister to three outstanding runners. Her dam Beauty Is Truth, by Pivotal, won the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene. In order of their birth, Beauty Is Truth’s three Group 1 winners, all by Galileo, are The United States, Hydrangea and Hermosa.