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18th August - WHITSBURY MANOR STUD GIMCRACK ACES
WHITSBURY Manor Stud holds a strong hand with three aces in today’s Gimcrack Stakes. The Hampshire operation bred unbeaten Weatherbys Super Sprint winner TEMPLE MEADS – a son of Prix de l’Abbaye hero Avonbridge. Also Compton Place, supplies two of TEMPLE MEADS ’ rivals: CASUAL GLIMPSE, who is from the family of Oaks heroine Moonshell and her brilliant son Doyen, and SIR REGINALD, a half-brother to Racing Post Trophy third Henrik. RP

30th July - THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
First the ecstasy as Compton Place's BORDERLESCOTT, a firm favourite among racing fans, celebrated his 50th racecourse appearance with yet another success in his illustrious and consistent career. Coming with a lightning fast late run he took the King George Stakes Gr.2 in style. Jockey Kieron Fallon commented “he made it easy for me and won comfortably in the end. He doesn't use any gas at all and I nearly had to push him down to the start, but as soon as he gets in the gate, he lights up”. Immediately after the race trainer Robin Bastiman, delighted with his evergreen runner's display, said "He takes a bit longer to wind up now, but the
engine is still there and bring on the Nunthorpe now....” as everyone was considering the mouthwatering prospect of a third successive Nunthorpe. However the mood changed when Borderlescott was found to have sustained an injury which puts future plans on hold. His trainer, and his many legions of fans will be hoping for his complete recovery.

20th July - WHITSBURY MANOR STUD ANNOUNCES THE RETIREMENT OF CADEAUX GENEREUX
It's the end of an era for Whitsbury with the announcement that Champion European 3yo Sprinter and dual Group 1 winner Cadeaux Genereux has been pensioned from stud duties. Raced by Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum he was retired to the stud in 1990 where he has stood ever since. Highly successful on the racecourse he carved out an equally successful career as a sire with 4 Champions, 7 Group 1 winners, 114 Stakes horses, 1528 races won and over £23 million earnings to his credit so far. In 2008 he sired Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Tattersalls Timeform Millions winner DONATIVUM. His Group 1 winning sons, including Bahamian Bounty have gone on to become successful sires themselves and he is building a lasting legacy as a Broodmare sire with 12 individual Group winners including 3 Group 1s to date.

19th July - FIRST CLASS TO TEMPLE MEADS - NEXT STOP YORK FOR THE GIMCRACK
In only his second race home-bred TEMPLE MEADS stayed on strongly to take the highly competitive and valuable Weatherbys Super Sprint on Saturday by a length in a field of 24, and will be pointed at the Gimcrack Stakes next month. "...a tremendous effort from Temple Meads to win from stall one....Not only did the winner overcome a seemingly unfavourable draw, but he had been off for 76 days since winning a red-hot maiden at Newmarket...it wouldn't be a surprise to see him end his campaign where it started, back at Newmarket for the Middle Park" Racing Post 18th July.

11th July - 4 BLACK TYPE WINNERS IN A MONTH - CROISULTAN, winner of the Belgrave Stakes LR!
The only Stakes race in Ireland, the Listed Belgrave Stakes at Fairyhouse, was won by CROISULTAN, who stayed on well in the final furlong to win by three parts of a length. This was the four-year-old’s first win at Listed level, though he has been Listed-placed on two occasions and has twice finished third in Gr.3s, including in the Gladness and the Ballycorus Stakes, both this year. EBN

11th July - ANOTHER STAKES WINNER FOR CADEAUX GENEREUX - BLUE JACK made his eigth win count in style with victory in the Listed City Wall Stakes at Chester yesterday.

6th July - FANTASTICO RESULT FOR SON OF REFUSE TO BEND - A facile all-the-way 3 1/4 length win in the Choice Stakes at Monmouth on Monday makes FANTASTICO ROBERTO his sire's 7th Black Type horse this year. Others include the unbeaten dual Gr.1 winner SARAFINA, classic placed NEON LIGHT, recent Gr.3 winner GRACE O'MALLEY and the rapidly improving WEALTHY.

5th July - The speedy ARNEB becomes the latest 2yo stakes winner for COMPTON PLACE sire of Borderlescott with victory in the Premio Giuseppe de Montel LR in Milan.

22nd June - REFUSE TO BEND is currently Leading 3rd Crop Sire in Europe by Prize Money.

13th June - Hot on the heels of SARAFINA'S success in the Gr.1 French Oaks, the ultra-tough in foal GRACE O'MALLEY provided a Group double for their sire, REFUSE TO BEND. She held on with great determination to take the Gr.3 Noblesse Stakes at Leopardstown for the second successive year. She may now head for the Lancashire Oaks say connections.

13th June - The brilliant SARAFINA strikes again for her sire REFUSE TO BEND and retains her unbeaten record with a superb victory in the Gr.1 French Oaks at Chantilly!
Whitsbury Manor Stud director Edward Harper said: “It’s a great result for Refuse To Bend because Sarafina looks like being the highest-class three-year-old filly in Europe. Being as good a winner as he was by Sadler’s Wells, that’s the sort of horse he should be capable of siring. I hope owner-breeders can take advantage of him. He can produce a top-class horse.”

11th June - Back to Back Stakes Wins for Whitsbury Manor Stud bred GILT EDGE GIRL who went from strenth to strength and followed up her Listed win in April with an easy victory in the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

24th May - REFUSE TO BEND Making an excellent start at stud: The Leading European 3rd crop sire with 12  stakes horses, including Gr.1 winner SARAFINA and a Classic-placed Group winner and 16 juvenile winners in his first crop; 20 juvenile winners including a Group winner in his second crop.

23rd May - UNBEATEN GR.1 WINNER AT 2 - NOW HE'S A GR.1 SIRE! REFUSE TO BEND achieved his biggest success as a stallion when the Aga Khan's filly SARAFINA comfortably landed the Group 1 Prix St Alary at Longchamp today.

11th May - AVONBRIDGE LEADING SIRE OF 2YO'S IN EUROPE FOR ANOTHER WEEK!
Another week has rolled by and AVONBRIDGE is still setting the pace with 5 individual winners.

4th May - AVONBRIDGE triumphed in 2009 and now he's started his second season with a bang and is currently Leading Sire of 2yo's in Europe in 2010 with 5 individual winners and his impressive Newmarket 'Guineas Day' debutant TEMPLE MEADS is heading for Royal Ascot "...a horse with a future.........he's a fine, big sort with an engine" Racing Post 3rd May. His latest and fifth individual winner, FITH AVE tracked the leaders and took the lead two furlongs out and won impressively by 3 lengths on her second start over 5f at Bath.

25th April - Bath’s Listed Lansdown Fillies Stakes, a five-furlong sprint, went to the home-bred GILT EDGE GIRL, who was having her first run in Stakes company. Trained by Clive Cox for the Wood Street Syndicate and Whitsbury’s owner Chris Harper, the ultra-tough filly led in the closing stages for an easy victory. She's out of a half-sister to the Gr.2 Flying Childers Stakes winner Godfrey Street, and is by dual Pattern winner Monsieur Bond. She now heads for the Gr.2 Temple Stakes at Haydock.

25th March - Breeders Click Here to View Sakhee's Secret's Quality First Foals.

22nd February - REFUSE TO BEND OFF TO A FLYING START IN 2010! The exciting new addition to our stallion roster, REFUSE TO BEND, was in unstoppable form this weekend, notching a remarkable five winners from five 3yo runners throughout Europe.
Mark Johnston's Ginger Jack and Clive Brittain's Areeda set the ball rolling in Britain on Friday with an all-weather double at Lingfield and Wolverhampton, before the action moved to Italy on Saturday where Miss Refuse scored for the fifth time at Siracusa.
His progeny clearly enjoy the Sicilian sunshine because on Sunday it was the turn of the filly, Super Refuse, to clinch her fourth victory at the Mediterranean course. At Bordeaux on the same afternoon, his promising colt Balian ran out a comfortable winner of his maiden to complete the five-timer for his in-form sire. REFUSE TO BEND was an unbeaten Gr.1 winner at 2, a Champion Miler at 3 he has produced a Group Winner from each of his first two crops and 36 Juvenile Winners!

2nd February - WHITSBURY STALLIONS ON PARADE AT TATTERSALLS 4TH FEBRUARY
Don't miss your opportunity to view SAKHEE'S SECRET and REFUSE TO BEND at Newmarket. Stallions will parade in alphabetical order in the Sales Ring at Tattersalls Park Paddocks commencing at 9.30am.

13th January - CHESNUT FILLY FIRST FOAL FOR SAKHEE’S SECRET
The 2007 Gr.1 July Cup victor SAKHEE'S SECRET had his first foal born last night at Trickledown Stud, a chesnut filly out of Fabine. The mare is a winning Danehill Dancer half-sister to three winners, including the Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin victress Never A Doubt, and her dam is a winning half-sister to Acclamation. Paul Thorman described her as “a good strong attractive filly, even though she is a couple of weeks early. We are very pleased with her.” SAKHEE'S SECRET, who raced for his breeder, the Late Bridget Swire, was the highest-rated European sprinter of 2007, when his four wins in a row included a defeat of Dutch Art, Red Clubs and Marchand d’Or in the Gr.1 July Cup, plus wins in Listed contests at Newbury and Salisbury by a combined seven lengths. He is by Sakhee, the world’s highest-rated horse of 2001, out of Miss Swire’s good mare Palace Street (Secreto), a dual Listed winner and also the dam of five times Listed scorer Palace Affair, last season’s Listed winner Palace Moon, and the Listed-placed King’s Caprice. EBN

December Review 2009 - Our successful First Season Sire AVONBRIDGE triumphed in 2009 and sired a Group-Placed Stakes winner from his first crop. He is also a Leading First Crop Sire in GB/IRE by Individual winners (to 11/11/09) second only to Dubawi. AVONBRIDGE was the Cartier Champion European Sprinter in 2005 and he is certainly transmitting that speed to his progeny with a course record breaker amongst his 18 winners. His Yearlings in 2009 realised: £31,000, £28,000, €25,000, 22,000gns, etc. His first crop will be 3yo's in 2010.

Our latest recruit REFUSE TO BEND from two crops to race has now had 35 individual 2yo winners in total and a Group winner from Each Crop. He is sire of the winners of 93 races and over £1,290,000. In 2009 alone sire of 19 individual 2yo winners including Group 3 winner NEON LIGHT. His 3rd Crop Yearlings are in strong demand and realised: 70,000gns, €68,000, 52,000gns, 50,000gns, etc.
"A rare opportunity to go to a classic-winning son of Sadler's Wells for British Breeders" James Underwood, Review of 2009.

SAKHEE'S SECRET Champion 3yo Sprinter in Great Britain in 2007 - Top Rated European 3yo Sprinter in the Northern Hemisphere in 2007 - Timeform rated 128 Racehorses of 2007 - Won the July Cup Gr.1 defeating six Group 1 winners - The best European trained 3yo sprinter in the world in 2007 - From the same family as Gr.1 stallions STRAVINSKY and VERGLAS. His First Crop are foals in 2010.

COMPTON PLACE excelling as a sire - He's a Group 1 Sire and sire of 9 Group Winners including course record breaking back-to-back Nunthorpe winner BORDERLESCOTT. Of sound commercial value his yearlings in 2009 realised up to £125,000, yearlings sold at Doncaster and Tattersalls (Books 1 & 2) averaged over £31,500 for 28 sold. He's a prolific producer of tough, consistent stock and sire of the winners of over £1million in 2009.

CADEAUX GENEREUX is standing the test of time as sire of 4 Champions, 7 Group 1 Winners, 112 Stakes Horses, over 1485 races won, £23m+ earnings, a Sire of Sires and Europe's Leading Active Broodmare Sire Of Stakes Horses........Need we say more.

29th October - Refuse To Bend is re-locating to Whitsbury Manor Stud for the 2010 season.

The neat, very good looking son of Sadler’s Wells who was an unbeaten Group 1 winner at 2, including the National Stakes Gr.1, Champion Miler at 3, including the 2000 Guineas Gr.1, and winner of the Eclipse Stakes Gr.1 and Queen Anne Stakes Gr.1 at 4, retired to stud with a Timeform rating of 128.

Refuse To Bend has made an excellent start at stud with 10 stakes horses, including GRACE O'MALLEY, winner of the Noblesse Stakes Gr.3 and 4th in the Irish Oaks Gr.1. He had 16 juvenile winners in his first crop and has 15 so far in his second crop, including NEON LIGHT, Gr.3 winner at Baden-Baden last Sunday. He is already the sire of the winners of 83 races and over £1.2 million in prize money.

At the sales his yearlings in 2009 have realised consistently high prices of 70,000gns, €68,000, 52,000gns, 50,000gns etc.

He will stand at a fee of £5,000 1st October S.L.F.

Whitsbury Manor Stud 2010 Stallion Fees

Compton Place - £6,000 1st Oct.
Sakhee’s Secret - £5,500 1st Oct.
Refuse To Bend - £5,000 1st Oct S.L.F.
Avonbridge - £3,500 1st Oct.
Cadeaux Genereux - fee on application.