ACCELERATE (USA)

2013 colt by Lookin At Lucky (Smart Strike) ex Issues, by Awesome Again (Deputy Minister).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic

Bred in Kentucky by Mike Abraham and sold for $380,000 as a yearling at Keeneland, Accelerate boosted his earnings to almost $5.8 million with the biggest win of his career, one that already featured four other Grade 1s this year. He is one of a pair of Grade 1 winners for his Ashford Stud sire who will surely be well supported in 2019 as his fee remains at $17,500. Accelerate has two stakes-winning siblings, including the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf third Daddy D T (Scat Daddy). He retires to Lane’s End in 2019 at a few of $20,000.

BULLETIN (USA)

2016 colt by City Zip (Carson City) ex Sue’s Good News, by Woodman (Mr Prospector).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint

Another Breeders’ Cup winner for the deceased Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes winner who was euthanized in 2017. A half-brother to Ghostzapper (Awesome Again), City Zip stood for $50,000 in his last season at Lane’s End where he was based for most of his career. Bulletin is a half-brother to Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes winner Tiz Miz Sue (Tiznow) and they are the best of the winning offspring from Grade 3 winner Sue’s Good News. Bulletin’s grandam was an unraced, stakes-producing half-sister to Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes winner Serape (Fappiano).

CITY OF LIGHT (USA)

2014 colt by Quality Road (Elusive Quality) ex Paris Notion, by Dehere (Deputy Minister).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile

Never out of the first three in 10 starts, City Of Light added to prior wins in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes and Grade 1 Triple Bend Stakes and boosted his winnings to $1.66 million. Bred in Kentucky by Ann Marie Farm, he sold as a yearling at Keeneland for $710,000. The best of three stakes-performers for his unraced dam, City Of Light is a grandson of Grade 1 winner Fabulous Notion (Somethingfabulous) and she bred the Grade 1 Test Stakes heroine Fabulously Fast (Deputy Minister). City Of Light retires to Lane’s End next year at a fee of $35,000.

ENABLE (GB)

2014 filly by Nathaniel (Galileo) ex Concentric, by Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf

What a way to make history as this year’s Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable became the first winner of Europe’s premier all-age race to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf. Only beaten once in 11 starts, she is a dual Arc winner, as well as winning at the highest level in the Oaks, Irish Oaks, Yorkshire Oaks and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Representing a great female line and bred by Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, Enable is from the immediate family of multiple Group 1 winner Flintshire (Dansili). She was one of a pair of Group/Grade 1 winners at the weekend for the Newsells Park Stud stallion Nathaniel whose 2018 fee was £20,000.

EXPERT EYE (GB)

2015 colt by Acclamation (Royal Applause) ex Exemplify, by Dansili (Danehill).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile

Now listed among seven Breeders’ Cup winners for Juddmonte Farms, this home-bred 2018 Royal Ascot winner produced the performance of a lifetime to record his first top-level victory. He is one of a pair of winners from his two-year-old winning dam, and she is a half-sister to the European champion juvenile filly Special Duty (Hennessy), winner of the French and English 1000 Guineas and the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Expert Eye’s third dam Viviana (Nureyev) bred Grade 1 winners Sightseek (Distant View) and Tates Creek (Rahy). Acclamation stood for €40,000 this year at Rathbarry Stud.

GAME WINNER (USA)

2016 colt by Candy Ride (Ride The Rails) ex Indyan Giving, by A P Indy (Seattle Slew).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

Sold for $100,000 as a yearling at Keeneland, this Summer Wind Equine-bred colt was landing his second Grade 1 success, having earlier captured the Del Mar Futurity. He is the best of a pair of winners out of a daughter of Fleet Indian (Indian Charlie), the champion older mare in the USA when her 13 wins in 19 starts included the Grade 1 Beldame Stakes and Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes. Game Winner’s sire was the champion miler in Argentina and is among the leading sires in America. He will stand for $80,000 again in 2019 at Lane’s End.

JAYWALK (USA)

2016 filly by Cross Traffic (Unbridled’s Song) ex Lady Pewitt, by Orientate (Mt Livermore).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies

Bred by Gainesway Thoroughbreds and sold for $190,000 as a yearling at Keeneland, Jaywalk is one of four stakes winners from the first crop of the lightly raced Grade 1 winner Cross Traffic who went to stud at Spendthrift at a fee of $12,500 but commanded just $7,500 this year. Not surprisingly his fee for 2019 has doubled. Jaywalk is a half-sister to minor stakes winner Danzatrice (Dunkirk) and their third dam La Paz (Hold Your Peace) had eight winning offspring, half of them stakes winners.

LINE OF DUTY (IRE)

2016 colt by Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) ex Jacqueline Quest, by Rock Of Gibraltar (Danehill).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf

A landmark 75th Group/Grade 1 winner for her sire who rules the roost at Coolmore, Line Of Duty was bred by Triermore Stud near Navan, Co Meath and sold for 400,000gns at the Tattersalls October Sale. He was previously winner of the Group 3 Prix de Conde. Triermore, through Charlie Gordon-Watson, paid 600,000gns for his dam Jacqueline Quest in 2011, a year after the filly was runner-up in the Group 1 1000 Guineas. Her first three runners are winners and she has a yearling filly by Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) and a colt foal by Galileo.

MONOMOY GIRL (USA)

2015 filly by Tapizar (Tapit) ex Drumette, by Henny Hughes (Hennessy).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff

A day after she won at Churchill Downs and made herself long odds-on to be champion filly in the USA, breeders Brendan and Olive Gallagher and Michael Hernon sold Monomoy Girl’s dam Drumette for $1.85 million at Fasig-Tipton. Monomoy Girl, a $100,000 Keeneland yearling, has won six times this year, five at Grade 1 level and she has only been beaten twice in 11 career starts, winning almost $3 million. She is the best runner for her Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winning sire Tapizar whose fee at Gainesway Stud actually goes down to $10,000 next year! Drumette is a winning half-sister to Grade 3 winner and sire Drum Major (Dynaformer).

NEWSPAPEROFRECORD (IRE)

2016 filly by Lope De Vega (Shamardal) ex Sunday Times, by Holy Roman Emperor (Danehill).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf

Allan Belshaw, operating as Times of Wigan Limited, bred this 200,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale graduate who is undefeated in three starts, including the Grade 2 Miss Grillo Stakes. She is the second stakes winner, joining Classical Times (Lawman), out of the Group 3 winner and Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes runner-up Sunday Times. That mare’s stakes-placed half-sister Question Times (Shamardal) has made a significant contribution to the family’s fortune this year as the dam of the Group 1 Irish Derby winner Latrobe (Camelot). Lope De Vega stands at Ballylinch Stud and in 2019 his fee rises to €80,000.

ROY H (USA)

2012 gelding by More Than Ready (Southern Halo) ex Elusive Diva, by Elusive Quality (Gone West).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint

Joins Shamrock Rose as a second winner at this year’s Breeders’ Cup out of a mare by Elusive Quality (Gone West), and one of two repeat Breeders’ Cup winners having annexed the same race in 2017. He is a son of WinStar stallion More Than Ready who will stand for an increased fee of $80,000 next year, having sired 15 crops of racing age which have produced 23 Group/Grade 1 winners. Roy H is the best produce of multiple Grade 3 winner Elusive Diva and she was placed in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes. Bred by Ramona S Bass, Roy H sold twice at Keeneland, for $115,000 as a yearling and $310,000 as a two-year-old.

SHAMROCK ROSE (USA)

2015 filly by First Dude (Stephen Got Even) ex Slew’s Quality, by Elusive Quality (Gone West).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint

It cost $130,000 to supplement Shamrock Rose for the race, $10,000 more than it cost to buy her as a two-year-old at Ocala. Bred by Best A Luck Farm, she is the first Grade 1 winner for her sire who won the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup. He stood for $10,000 this year at Double Diamond Farm in Ocala, Florida. Shamrock Rose is the best winner out of a half-sister to Slew The Red (Red Ransom) who won a couple of Group 3 races in France. Slew’s Quality is also a half-sister to the grandam of Mahbooba (Galileo), the champion two-year-old filly in South Africa after winning the Group 1 Golden Slipper.

SISTERCHARLIE (IRE)

2014 filly by Myboycharlie (Danetime) ex Starlet’s Sister, by Galileo (Sadler’s Wells).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf

Foaled in Ireland and bred by Ecurie des Monceaux, this bargain €12,000 Arqana yearling has now won seven of her 11 starts and been second three times. She has been a revelation this year, four of her five starts resulting in victories and all at Grade 1 level. She was runner-up in France in the Group 1 Prix de Diane, French Oaks. Her sire won the Group 1 Prix Morny for Tommy Stack and stood at the National Stud in Newmarket for two seasons. Based at Haras du Mezeray since, he cost breeders just €5,000 this year. He is sire of Group/Grade 1 winners Jameka (champion in Australia), Euro Charline and Peggy Jean. Sistercharlie’s half-sister My Sister Nat (Acclamation) is a Group 3 winner in 2018.

STORMY LIBERAL

(USA)

2012 gelding by Stormy Atlantic (Storm Cat) ex Vassar, by Royal Academy (Nijinsky).

Won Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint

Joining Roy H as back-to-back Breeders’ Cup winners, Stormy Liberal has long since repaid the $100,000 investment made in him as a two-year-old at Ocala, a disappointing price as breeders Dapple Bloodstock and Gryphon Investments refused $165,000 for him as a yearling. His sire will be 25 next year and his fee has been set for $10,000 at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington. Stormy Liberal is a half-brother to Shimmering Moment who won a listed race at Dundalk in 2010. This is the female line of Group 1 winners Dolphin Street, Saffron Walden, Insight, Beethoven, Listen, Sequoyah, Henrythenavigator and Magician.