Study of Man

Kalpana's sire Study Of Man is set for a fee increase to £35,000 after the Lanwades Stud resident enjoyed another excellent year. Once again, Kalpana flew the flag for the Prix du Jockey Club winner when landing the Group 1 Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes for Andrew Balding and Juddmonte Farms. Meanwhile, Sea The Moon, the sire of five Group 1 winners, has been set at £20,000. Bobby's Kitten, who stood for nine years at Lanwades Stud, does not appear on the roster.

Francis Graffard has had his horses on song from early spring, and anyone who felt that the trainer surely could not maintain such a good run of form is now being proved wrong. He is so far clear of Andre Fabre in the French trainers' table that a first champion title for Graffard is starting to look a mere formality.  As if to underline his dominance, the trainer secured two more Group 1 victories on Sunday. Goliath struck in the Grosser Preis von Baden - a first top-level win for...

Juddmonte homebred Kalpana (Study Of Man) will follow the path of dual G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (Nathaniel) when she lines up in the G3 September Stakes at Kempton next month before a start at ParisLongchamp. Already a winner of the 2024 edition, the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes second was also under consideration for the G1 Prix Vermeille. Trained by Andrew Balding, the 2024 G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes heroine has placed in all three 2025 starts, with a third in...

The victory of Allonsy in Sunday's Pontefract Castle Fillies' Stakes brought up a notable milestone for Lanwades Stud as the Study Of Man filly was the 100th Listed winner bred at the farm during the tenure of Kirsten Rausing.  The owner-breeder's association with the stud began in 1984 and during the intervening four decades 34 Group 1 winners have been bred at Lanwades, led by the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Alpinista (Frankel), along with 29 Group 2 and 41 Group 3 winners, bringing the total to 204 stakes...

Alpinista (GB), the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner and world champion racemare of 2022, has delivered her second foal, a colt by Lanwades' Study Of Man (Ire). The first foal of the daughter of Frankel (GB) is now a yearling filly by Dubawi (Ire) and Alpinista will travel next to France to visit Siyouni (Fr) at the Aga Khan Studs. Study Of Man, whose percentage of black-type winners was top among the second-season sires of 2024, will this year cover both Alpinista's dam Alwilda (GB) (Hernando {Fr}) and her...

It may not have been obvious at the time but with the benefit of almost 20 years' hindsight it is now clear that the retirement to stud in 2006 of both Dubawi (Ire) and Shamardal was a pivotal moment for the Darley operation, and indeed the European stallion scene. There is now no shortage of their male-line descendants at stud and, in Blue Point (Ire) and Too Darn Hot (GB) in particular, their legacy looks assured within the Darley ranks.  The pair ended last year as first and second in...

Moyglare Stud provided the jewels in the crown of the Goffs February Sale when two well-bred colts by hot stallions Blue Point (Ire) and Study Of Man (Ire) sold for a combined €415,000, which accounted for just over 10 per cent of the entire turnover at Kildare Paddocks this week.  It was the Blue Point colt out of Dansili (GB) mare Tina Angelina (Ire) who commanded a sale-topping €250,000 when selling to Tally-Ho Stud while Matt Coleman--signing under The Investors--landed the Study Of Man for €165,000.  All told, the turnover...

For this second instalment of our value sires series we are looking at stallions standing in the €20,000 to €49,999 fee range.  Another year has gone by in which Nathaniel (Ire) has provided us with one of the stars of the season. This time it was the Irish Oaks winner You Got To Me (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), who later played a starring role of a different kind when topping the Tattersalls December Mares Sale at 4.8 million gns. She'll be in the Amo Racing silks next year and surely already...

It's not yet nine o'clock and the office is almost empty, as good as new. Pascal Bary saw his last horses leave the day before, and he's offering one of his last employees their pick of the framed victory photos still displayed on a shelf.  Almost 45 years after obtaining his licence, the trainer with six French Derbys to his name is packing his bags. The yard is still bustling because his boxes will now be occupied by Mario Baratti, who is steadily climbing the ranks of Chantilly trainers today...

Multiple Classic-winning trainer Pascal Bary has announced his retirement after 44 years in the French training ranks. The Chantilly trainer saddled the winner of the Prix du Jockey Club on six occasions, starting with Celtic Arms (Fr) in 1994 and most recently with Study Of Man (Ire) in 2018. Over the years, Bary, 71, has been associated with a stream of great equine names, most notably for the Niarchos family, for whom he won two further Jockey Clubs with the half-brothers Dream Well (Fr) and Sulamani (Ire), and the Prix...

It's probably now just about safe for the TDN team to leave our desks briefly without fear of another stallion fee announcement dropping into the inbox. So, now that the numbers are in, here is a little further investigation as to who's going where and for how much. There were cautionary notes among last year's stallion fee announcements, just as there have been again this time around, which is no surprise given that the foal crop in Britain and Ireland has dropped again, this time by six per cent, to...

Classic winner Study Of Man (Ire), whose breakthrough season included a Group 1 victory for Kalpana (GB) on Qipco British Champions Day, will stand at the increased fee of £25,000 next season at Lanwades Stud. The son of Deep Impact (Jpn) covered his biggest book of 123 mares in 2024 - the first time it stretched into three figures - following the encouraging results of his first crop of two-year-olds. Having stood at £15,000 in his opening season, he had subsequently been advertised at £12,500. His five black-type winners include...