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Adelaide given different test with barrier trial
BY DAVID BAXTER

Australia: Cox Plate hero Adelaide had his first outing for new trainer Chris Waller at Rosehill on Tuesday, when finishing down the field in a barrier trial.

Running over 900 metres (four and a half furlongs), Adelaide could only finish seventh of nine under Hugh Bowman as connections used the trial to try and help the four-year-old adjust to the Australian style of racing.

Waller has taken temporary care of Adelaide following his memorable Group 1 win at Moonee Valley for Aidan O'Brien last October, when coming from last to first under a masterful Ryan Moore ride.

Speaking after the trial, Coolmore Australia racing manager James Bester was not disheartened by the performance, and told Sky Racing: "Adelaide did exactly what we expected. He found it all a little too hectic; I don't think he has ever had to go that fast early in his life before.

"He was pretty laidback about it and Hugh Bowman said he just had to keep his mind on the job. The whole point was that he just went out to learn something about jumping out of the barriers at that speed. This was all a learning curve and that is why we trial them."

Another barrier trial is the next step for Adelaide, whose major target in Australia is the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on April 11, though there is speculation he may return to action next month in the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill.

Following his campaign in Australia, Adelaide will return to O'Brien with a view to being readied for Royal Ascot.

Speciosa to be given a rest year this season
BY BLOODSTOCK WORLD STAFF

SPECIOSA, who caught the public’s imagination when winning the 1,000 Guineas for trainer and part-owner Pam Sly in 2006, will be rested this season after producing a foal every year since retiring to the paddocks in 2008.

The 12-year-old daughter of Danehill Dancer was bought by Sly at the DBS Breeze-Up Sale in 2005 for £30,000. She went on to win four of her 17 starts, three of those victories coming at Group level in the 1,000 Guineas, Rockfel Stakes and Nell Gwyn Stakes.

Speciosa has had four runners, two of whom struck for the first time last year – Asteroidea, a four-year-old daughter of Sea The Stars, who got off the mark at Ripon, and the Oasis Dream five-year-old Specialty, who landed a pair of mile handicaps.

Speciosa is expecting to Dark Angel this year, has a yearling colt by Dutch Art and a two-year-old Teofilo filly, who is in training with Sly.

“Speciosa will be rested this year,” said Sly. “She’s been on the go since retiring to stud and she’s not due until May, which is quite late.

“The Teofilo filly is very tall and will need a bit of time. She won’t be out until the backend of the season.

“The Dutch Art yearling is also big. We sent Speciosa to more speed-orientated sires in the hope of getting something a little more forward, but she keeps throwing these big types who need time.”

Free Eagle dam set for date with Galileo
BY MARTIN STEVENS

MATING plans have been made for the Moyglare Stud broodmare band which was the source of an exceptional 2014 for the County Kildare operation.

Moyglare Stud bred no fewer than 11 individual stakes winners last year, including international superstars Designs On Rome and Rich Tapestry as well as the enormously exciting pair Free Eagle and Forgotten Rules. That tally does not include Mutual Regard, who won Europe's richest handicap, the Ebor, in August.

Free Eagle, a son of High Chaparral who returned from injury to win the Enterprise Stakes by seven lengths and finish a commendable third in the Champion Stakes, is out of the 12-year-old Danehill mare Polished Gem. His half-brother Custom Cut, by Notnowcato, won five stakes races last year including the Joel Stakes and their half-sister Sapphire, by Medicean, landed the British Champions Fillies' and Mares' Stakes in 2012.

Polished Gem will visit Galileo in the coming months, having also been covered by the multiple champion sire last year, while Sapphire will feature in the first book of Kingman, having been covered by his sire Invincible Spirit in 2014.

Galileo has also been chosen as this year's mating for dual Grade 1 winner Switch, who is in foal to Dansili. Moyglare Stud bought the eight-year-old daughter of Quiet American for $4.3 million at Fasig-Tipton in 2012.

The unbeaten Forgotten Rules, a son of Nayef who won the British Champions Long Distance Cup in October on only his second start on the Flat, is a half-brother to Vintage Nouveau, a Montjeu filly who landed a Listed race at Listowel a month earlier. Their dam Utterly Heaven, a 13-year-old daughter of Danehill who was a close fourth in the 2005 Irish 1,000 Guineas, is set for a date with Dubawi.

Joining Utterly Heaven in Dubawi's book is another daughter of Danehill - Ribblesdale Stakes winner Irresistible Jewel, all of whose three runners, Princess Highway, Royal Diamond and Mad About You, have won Group races. Princess Highway (by Street Cry) is in foal to War Front and will stay in Kentucky to be covered by Medaglia D'Oro, while Mad About You is on a late cover to Sea The Stars so her mating plans are undecided.

Lady Luck, a 19-year-old daughter of Kris who has produced Tattersalls Gold Cup hero Casual Conquest and last year's Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial winner Afternoon Sunlight, has been booked into Shamardal. Moving Heart, a winning daughter of Lady Luck by Anabaa, visited Shamardal last year and has had Australia chosen as her next mating.

The unraced Linamix mare Majestic Silver, whose first foal Carla Bianca carried the famous Moyglare Stud silks to victory in the Dance Design Stakes in August, will be covered by Dansili, while her Danehill half-sister Profound Beauty, a triple Group 3 winner, is in foal to Dubawi and is booked into Dalakhani.

Suitably Discreet, an unraced daughter of Mr Prospector and Canadian champion Alywow who produced last season's Grade 2 Monmouth Stakes winner Speaking Of Which, is set to visit Kodiac. Stakes winners I'm Yours (by Invincible Spirit) and She's Our Mark (Ishiguru) are set for Dark Angel.

Among Moyglare Stud's other matings this year, Anywaysmile, a winning Indian Ridge half-sister to Grade 1-winning sprinter Rich Tapestry, will visit Champs Elysees and is in foal to Holy Roman Emperor; dual Grade 1-winning hurdler Unaccompanied will cross the Atlantic for a liaison with Distorted Humor; Es Que, the dam of high-class Dominant and Es Que Love, is carrying to Galileo and will be covered by Oasis Dream; and Grade 1 runner-up Society Hostess, the dam of Listed-placed Sailors Swan, will visit Sea The Stars.

Moyglare Stud's Fiona Craig said: "We were very lucky this year, all the leading stallion farms were very generous with their most in-demand nominations in approving our mares, and that makes an enormous difference. With the concentration of popular bloodlines, if you can't get what you want it's a real struggle.

Only six weeks into 2015 Moyglare Stud has already chalked up two stakes winners as breeders, with Designs On Rome winning in Hong Kong and Souper Colossal scoring in the US last Sunday.