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Alary winner Germance, while Zarigana, the winner of the Grotte’ s dam Zarkamiya finished third in the Vermeille and the leading three year old sprinter Polyvega is out of the Maurice de Gheest winner Polydream. Finally, the highly rated filly Cankoura is out of Candarliya, who was second to Treve in the Vermeille. Group 1 winners and performers may make up only 1 % of the mare population but at the time of writing they had produced seven or 33 % of the twenty-one three year olds to have run this year in France with an official rating of forty-seven or higher. If you widen the net a little and include the progeny of broodmares who have already produced a Group 1 winner there are two further qualifiers as Uther, the winner of the Noailles, is a half-brother to the Grand Prix de Paris winner Sosie and Tito Mo Cen, rated 46 ½, a half-brother to the Foret winner Ramatuelle. Group 1 winners, producers and performers are far more likely than any other subset of the broodmare population to produce the next generation of Group 1 winners and performers. This prepotency is even more evident when you look at the performance of the sons of Group 1 winning mares as stallions. Looking at a listing of active European sires with more than two hundred foals ranked by the percentage of Group 1 performers, it goes from Frankel in first place down to Gleneagles in twentieth. The sons of Group 1 winning mares on the list include Dubawi, Zarak, Farhh, Sea The Stars, Australia, Kingman, Too Darn Hot and New Approach, while Lope de Vega’ s dam Lady Vettori was placed in the Marcel Boussac. Also on the list are Frankel, Oasis Dream and Gleneagles, all half or full brothers to other Group 1 winners. No fewer than twelve, or 60 %, of the best Group 1 producing stallions in Europe are out of Group 1 winning or performing mares or are half-brothers to other Group 1 winners. Leading stallions not on this listing include Kodiac, Ghaiyyath and Saxon Warrior, all sons of Group 1 winning mares, as well as Siyouni, Nathaniel, Churchill and Make Believe, all half brothers to other Group 1 winners. There are many things in the bloodstock market which are, or appear to be, absurd and illogical, but the fact that young Group 1 winning fillies and mares are worth a great deal is not one of them. Group 1 winning mares are more likely than any other subset to produce Group 1 horses, and their Group 1 performing sons have every chance of becoming leading stallions.
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Par Véronique Verva pour Karisma Consulting
NICOLAS CLÉMENT & FLO HERMANS
Together, we go further? The saying seems to have proven true in recent years in horse racing, where racing syndicates and owners partnerships have flourished massively. More recently, the trend has also taken hold among trainers, with the formation of new partnerships: leading the way at the moment is the young duo Amanda Zetterholm and Noel George, followed by Guillaume Macaire and Hector de Lageneste, Arnaud Chaillé-Chaillé and François Pamart, or family associations such as Carlos and Yann Lerner, Camille and Philippe Peltier, and Pauline and Didier Prod’ homme to name just a few. The duo of Flo Hermans and Nicolas Clément is the latest to join their names under the trainers’ column, following a smart marketing campaign to announce it. Véronique Verva( Karisma Consulting) visited the famous Chantilly stable to meet them.
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