O LEGADO STAMINICO DE LYPHARD E NUREYEV NAS PRINCIPAIS 10 PROVAS DE 2,400M EUROPÉIAS

EPSON DERBY- 1945 to 2013 - EPSON
IRISH DERBY - 1945 to 2013 - CURRAGH
PRIX DU JOCKEY CLUB - 1945 to 2004 - CHANTILLY
DERBY ITALIANO - 1945 to 2007 - CAMPANNELLE
DEUTSCHES DERBY - 1946 TO 2013 - HAMBURG
OAKS STAKES - 1945 to 2013 - EPSON
IRISH OAKS - 1945 to 2013 - CURRAGH


KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES  - 1951 to 2013 - ASCOT
PRIX DE L'ARC DU TRIOMPHE - 1945 to 2013 - 

POLYMELUS
.....Phalaris
..........Pharos
...............Nearco
....................Nearctic
.........................NORTHERN DANCER
..............................Lyphard
...................................Al Nasr
........................................ZAIZOOM (1984)
...................................Alzao
........................................SHAHTOUSH (1998)
........................................WINONA (1998)
...................................Bellypha
........................................Mendez
.............................................Linamix
..................................................SAGAMIX (1998)
...................................DANCING BRAVE (1986)(1986)
........................................COMMANDER IN CHIEF (1993)(1993)
........................................WEMYSS BIGHT (1993)
........................................WHITE MUZZLE (1993)
...................................Manila
........................................TIME STAR (1994)
...................................THREE TROIKAS (1979)
.............................Nureyev
..................................Polar Falcon
.......................................Pivotal
............................................BUZZWORD (2010)
............................................SARISKA (2009)
..................................REAMS OF VERSE (1997)
..................................Theatrical
.......................................PEINTRE CELEBRE (1997)(1997)
............................................DAI JIN (2003)
.......................................ZAGREB (1996)

AMANHA EM SANTA ANITA

Sky High Gal Tops Sadler Trio in Las Cienegas
By Jack Shinar

Trainer John Sadler has a threesome set to run in the $100,000 Las Cienegas Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the hillside turf course April 12 at Santa Anita Park, led by recent stakes winner Sky High Gal.

Seven older fillies and mares will contest the Las Cienegas at about 6 1/2 furlongs. The race is the first of two graded stakes on Saturday's program at Santa Anita, and is carded as the fifth race with a 2:30 p.m. scheduled post. Later on the card, older horses battle in the $200,000 Potrero Grande (gr. II) at 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track.

Hronis Racing's Sky High Gal exits a game head victory in her seasonal debut over the downhill course, leading throughout in the restricted Wishing Well Stakes. A four-time winner from seven starts, the 4-year-old daughter of Leroidesanimaux   won last year's listed Blue Norther Stakes and posted a close fourth-place finish in the Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes (gr. IIIT) last November. She is seeking her first graded win with Rafael Bejarano aboard for the first time from post 5.

Sadler also entered Minds Eyes, third in the Camilla Urso Stakes in her first start of the year March 15 at Golden Gate Fields, and Llandudno, making her stakes debut off a third behind Las Cienegas rival Biorhythm in an allowance/optional claiming event on the hillside course March 13.

Glen Hill Farm's Biorhythm appears to be on her way up for trainer Tom Proctor with three wins from six starts. The 4-year-old Malibu Moon   miss topped Winding Way by 2 1/4 lengths in her most recent start on the hillside, her first race in more than seven months. She led all the way through blistering fractions of :21.50 and :43.96, completing the distance in 1:11.80 while never threatened. Drayden Van Dyke retains the mount.

One that merits strong consideration is Triple B Farms' Tribal Spy, gate-to-wire one-length winner of the Irish O'Brien Stakes over California-breds on the hillside March 15 for trainer Adam Kitchingham.

Rockingham Ranch's Ciao Bella Luna rallied for second in the Irish O'Brien for trainer Peter MIller after she broke in the air and trailed the field early. With her stalking style, the grade II winner is likely to show improvement in a speed-laden lineup.

Another that can come from off the pace is Irish-bred Macaabra, who scored over first-level allowance foes in her most recent start Jan. 24 at odds of 21-1 for trainer Gary Mandella.

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Wild Dude Finds Good Spot in Potrero Grande
By Jack Shinar

Top sprinter Wild Dude heads a competitive field of eight older horses as he seeks to rebound in the $200,000 Potrero Grande Stakes (gr. II) at Santa Anita Park April 12.

Winner of the Palos Verdes Stakes (gr. II) by a game neck two starts back in his stakes debut for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, the 4-year-old Wildcat Heir   colt was found a bit lacking when fourth last time in the San Carlos (gr. II). The bay colt was in position while battling between horses in the drive but had no answer for his fast-closing stablemate Sahara Sky, losing by three parts of a length.

Owned by Hollendorfer and Green B. Smith Jr., Wild Dude may appreciate a slight cutback in distance from seven furlongs to 6 1/2 in the Potrero Grande, which is race 8 on the Saturday card with a 4 p.m. PDT scheduled post. Rafael Bejarano has the return ride on Wild Dude, whose three-race win streak came to a halt in the March 8 San Carlos. Wild Dude must spot each of his rivals five pounds while packing 123.

Five members of the Potrero Grande field exit the San Carlos including runner-up Big Macher, who was stepping up last time following a win over state-breds in the Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint. Big Macher, a 4-year-old Beau Genius gelding trained by Richard Baltas for Tachycardia Stables and Tom Mansor, opened a one-length advantage in the stretch of the San Carlos but was caught late by a half-length to Sahara Sky.

Hollendorfer will also saddle multiple stakes winner Zeewat, still in search of his first graded score. Winner of the six-furlong Lost In the Fog Stakes at Golden Gate Fields Feb. 17, Zeewat was away slowly in the San Carlos at 18-1 and ran last at every call in a field of 10. Zeewat, a five-time stakes victor, leads the field in earnings with $361,700 while winning seven of 15 lifetime starts.

Midnight Transfer, a stakes winner from the Carla Gaines barn but without a victory of any kind since January 2012, ran an even sixth in the San Carlos after taking the overland route into the stretch. Joe Talamo will try his hand on the 5-year-old son of Hard Spun   owned by Warren Williamson.

Also coming out of the San Carlos is Cyclometer, who vied on the lead at 33-1 in fast fractions before fading to ninth for trainer Bruce Headley.

Mongolian Saturday ships in from Florida for trainer Enebish Ganbat and is likely to set the pace from the rail with Aaron Gryder aboard. Mongolian Stable's 4-year-old Any Given Saturday   gelding was third in the Caixa Electronica Stakes at Gulfstream Park March 2.

Returning to Southern California is lightly raced 6-year-old Wine Police, who figures to get a good ground-saving trip from post 2 for new trainer Peter Miller. Kirk and Judy Robison's Speightstown   gelding, previously with the Henry Dominguez stable, was second by a neck as the favorite in the Bill Thomas Memorial Stakes at Sunland Park March 23.

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CHEFES DE RAÇA: BAHRAM

Bahram (1932–1956) was an Irish-bred, English-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career which lasted from July 1934 until September 1935 he was undefeated in nine races. The leading British two-year-old of 1934, he went on to take the Triple Crown in 1935 by winning the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes. He was retired to stud at the end of the year. After a promising start to his stud career in Britain he was exported to the United States, where he had moderate success before being exported again to Argentina.

Background

Bahram was a bay horse with a white star and strip^[2] foaled at the HH Aga Khan III's stud farm on The Curragh, Ireland. He was by the highly successful stallion Blandford, who sired four Derby winners and was British Champion sire on three occasions.^[3] His dam, Friar’s Daughter, was inbred to St Simon in the third and fourth generations. Friar’s Daughter won one small race, but was a good broodmare who produced eleven winners of over £58,000'^[4] including Dastur,^[5] who finished runner-up in all three legs of the Triple Crown in 1932. Bahram stood 16.2 hands high, had a good temperament, and was described by equine experts as having flawless conformation.^[6] The Aga Khan originally registered the colt as "Bahman"^[7] but renamed him in honour of his cousin, who was killed in the torpedoing of the SS Sussex in 1916.^[8] Bahram was trained by Frank Butters for the Aga Khan at Newmarket in England. His regular rider was the veteran jockey Frederick Fox (1888–1945).^[9]

Racing career

1934:two-year-old season

Bahram made his debut in the valuable National Breeders Produce Stakes at Sandown Park Racecourse in July in which he started a 20/1 outsider. He won by a neck from his more fancied stable companion Theft, who had won the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot in a result which reportedly stunned the crowd.^[10] Later in July Bahram won a Rous Memorial Stakes at Goodwood before being sent to York for the Gimcrack Stakes in which he ran lazily and had to be driven out^[11] to win by a length from Consequential.^[12]
In autumn he was sent to Newmarket where he won the Boscawen Stakes before contesting the Middle Park Stakes, one of the year's most prestigious races for juveniles. Bahram won the Middle Park Stakes in a record time of 1:11.2. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the season's best two-year-olds, Bahram was awarded top weight of 133 pounds, a pound ahead of his stable companions Theft and Hairan.^[7][13]

1935:three-year-old season

The Aga Khan in 1936

By the spring of 1935 Bahram had grown into a handsome, impressive horse with a placid, lazy temperament.^[2] He missed an intended run at Newmarket's Craven meeting in April and made his first appearance of the season in the 2000 Guineas. Ridden by Freddie Fox he started at odds of 7/2 in a field of sixteen runners. He won "comfortably"^[14] by one and a half lengths from Theft, with Sea Bequest two lengths away in third.
A month after his win at Newmarket, Bahram started 5/4 favourite for the Derby at Epsom. The race was run in bright sunshine, despite previous heavy rain, and was attended by a crowd estimated at 500,000 including King George V who was celebrating his Silver Jubilee.^[8] Bahram was towards the rear of the field in the early stages but was always travelling well. Fox moved him up to third place at Tattenham corner before accelerating into the lead early in the straight.^[15] He won very comfortably by two lengths from Robin Goodfellow and Field Trial, with Theft in fourth.^[16] Later in June, Bahram started at odds of 1/8 in the St. James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot and won from Portfolio. In August, Bahram's training was delayed by the "coughing epidemic" which struck many British stables in late summer.^[17]
At Doncaster in September, Bahram started 4/11 favourite for the St. Leger Stakes in his bid to become the first winner of the traditional Triple Crown since Rock Sand in 1903 (Pommern, Gay Crusader and Gainsborough had won wartime "Triple Crowns" but these included substitute races run at Newmarket). Since Rock Sand, four colts had attempted the feat but St. Amant (sixth in 1904), Minoru (4th in 1909), Manna (tenth in 1925) and Cameronian (tenth and last in 1931) had all been well-beaten at Doncaster. He was ridden by Charlie Smirke, Fox having sustained serious injuries in a fall the previous day.^[18] Bahram won very easily by five lengths from Solar Ray, with Buckleigh a further three lengths away in third.^[19] After the race Smirke claimed that Bahram could have won carrying "12 Stone and two riders".^[20]

Assessment

On Bahram's retirement, he was described as the "Horse of the Century" by his owner, an assessment with which the Daily Mail concurred,^[10] although The Times regarded him as inferior to Windsor Lad.^[21]
In their book A Century of Champions, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Bahram the twenty-eighth best horse of the 20th Century and the seventh best Derby winner, behind Sea-Bird, Hyperion, Mill Reef, Nijinsky, Shergar and Windsor Lad.^[22]
Bahram was reportedly even lazier at home than he was on the racecourse, making him a difficult horse to assess. His trainer, Frank Butters, admitted that "I never knew how good he was".^[22]

Stud record

At the end of the 1935 racing season Bahram was retired to Egerton Stud in Newmarket where he stood at a service fee of 500 guineas per mare.^[1] With just two crops racing, Bahram became the second leading sire in 1940^[1] and leading juvenile sire of 1941. Among his English progeny were Big Game (2,000 Guineas and Champion Stakes), Persian Gulf winner of the Coronation Cup and sire of the Derby winner Parthia, Turkhan, winner of the 1940 St. Leger Stakes and Irish Derby and Zabara, and the winners of 469 races.^[19] Bahram was also the damsire of Noor who competed successfully in England as well as in America where he would be inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.^[23]
Following the German occupation of France during World War II, the Aga Khan fled France to the safety of Switzerland, and in September 1940, sold Bahram for £40,000 to an American syndicate made up of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, James Cox Brady, Jr. and Sylvester Labrot, Jr. In 1941, the horse was brought to Vanderbilt's Sagamore Stud in Maryland then to Walter Chrysler Jr.'s North Wales Stud in Warrenton, Virginia. However, there was considerable resentment amongst British breeders against the Aga Khan for selling to overseas buyers all five of his Derby winners, particularly the three from the Blandford line, Bahram, Blenheim and Blenheim's son, Mahmoud. All of them were considered a severe loss to British breeding stock.^[6]
In the US Bahram sired the winners of 660 races worth two million dollars.^[19] In 1946 Bahram was sold for a reported $130,000 to a stud farm in Argentina where he met with only modest success before his death at 24 years of age in 1956.