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He has only 2 or 3 races left in his career so I figure any stories should be placed in the stallions section cause that is where his future lies. 

GOLDEN HORN (GB)Bay colt 2012 
Cape Cross
Bay or brown 1994
Green Desert
Bay 1983
Danzig
Bay 1977
Northern Dancer
Bay 1961
Nearctic1954 14-c
Natalma1957 2-d
Pas de Nom
Bay or brown 1968
Admiral's Voyage1959 4-n
Petitioner1952 7-a
Foreign Courier
Bay 1979
Sir Ivor
Bay 1965
Sir Gaylord1959 2-s
Attica1953 8-g
Courtly Dee
Bay or brown 1968
Never Bend1960 19-b
Tulle1950 A4
Park Appeal
Bay or brown 1982
Ahonoora
Chestnut 1975
Lorenzaccio
Chestnut 1965
Klairon1952 1-w
Phoenissa1951 5-h
Helen Nichols
Chestnut 1966
Martial1957 2-e
Quaker Girl1961 1-m
Balidaress
Grey 1973
Balidar
Brown 1966
Will Somers1955 1-s
Violet Bank1960 8-d
Innocence
Grey 1968
Sea Hawk1963 3-f
Novitiate1959 14-c
Fleche d'Or
Bay 2006
Dubai Destination
Bay 1999
Kingmambo
Bay 1990
Mr Prospector
Bay 1970
Raise a Native1961 8-f
Gold Digger1962 13-c
Miesque
Bay 1984
Nureyev1977 5-h
Pasadoble1979 20>
Mysterial
Bay or brown 1994
Alleged
Bay 1974
Hoist the Flag1968 5-i
Princess Pout1966 2-s
Mysteries
Chestnut 1986
Seattle Slew1974 13-c
Phydilla1978 6-b
Nuryana
Bay 1984
Nureyev
Bay 1977
Northern Dancer
Bay 1961
Nearctic1954 14-c
Natalma1957 2-d
Special
Bay 1969
Forli1963 3-b
Thong1964 5-h
Loralane
Bay 1977
Habitat
Bay 1966
Sir Gaylord1959 2-s
Little Hut1952 4-r
Lora
Bay 1972
Lorenzaccio1965 5-h
Courtessa1955 9-c
 Ancestor duplications:Northern Dancer4m x 4m Sir Gaylord5m x 5m Lorenzaccio4m x 5f 
  Nureyevx 5f,3f
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Nuryana and her foal called Fleche DOr, who later became dam of Golden Horn

Nuryana (left) and her foal Fleche D'Or, later the dam of Golden Horn

Long days and long nights made worthwhile

  12:20PM 19 AUG 2015 

Julian Muscat pays a visit to the village of Cheveley and meets the dedicated and enduring team behind Golden Horn's early days.


CHRIS SMITH will be an anonymous presence at York this afternoon. He will have travelled up from Cheveley, a small village on the fringe of Newmarket, to reacquaint himself with a horse he knew in its youth. Smith is the gardener at Hascombe and Valiant Studs, where Golden Horn was foaled and raised before his transfer to John Gosden’s stable.

By staff consent Smith is the one among ten full-time employees who follows racing more closely than anyone except Hascombe’s secretary, Fiona McGlone. Although that might seem strange for a man not directly involved with rearing horses, it is often the way on stud farms. The staff are first and foremost stockmen.

As much is evident from the obvious question: which of them made the most money when Golden Horn won the Derby? It draws blank looks all round. There is obviously collective pride in graduates of Golden Horn’s calibre, but in the years ahead the horse who streaked to victory at Epsom will be remembered at Anthony Oppenheimer’s breeding grounds in other ways.

“Chris just wants to be there for one of Golden Horn’s races,” says Hascombe’s second in command, Steven Golding. “Mr Anthony took us to Ascot for the King George because he wanted us to see the horse. Unfortunately he didn’t run, but we thoroughly enjoyed it.”

Only when you visit these private breeding fiefdoms can you appreciate the expertise on hand. Golding is in his 29th year at Hascombe, a 290-acre pasture embracing three different land tracts. Winner of the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s Stud Staff Award last year, Golding is responsible for foaling the stud’s mares. On March 27, 2012, a date etched indelibly in his mind, he oversaw the birth of Golden Horn.

He was summoned from his sleep by Heidi Steggles, whose internal clock has been turned upside down every winter for the last eight years. From January through to May, Steggles starts her 12-hour shift at 10pm, sitting alone in the foaling unit, waiting for signs that heavily pregnant mares are about to give birth.

“I love it,” she says. “It’s just me and the horses. All is peaceful and quiet.”

Steggles, too, was on hand when Golden Horn entered the world, the rich bay colt causing his dam Fleche D’Or no complications whatsoever. He would continue in that vein for the next 20 months.

Steggles has worked with horses all her life: she left school at 16 to work at Hugh Van Cutsem’s Northmore Farm. “I suppose one of the highlights of my life was when I was asked to look after Black Caviar when she came over here from Australia,” Steggles says. The detail makes a revealing snapshot of her professional standing.

It’s a recurring theme at Hascombe, where staff tend to stay put. The standard was set by Roy Gedge, who retired in 2013 after 47 years’ service, most of it as stud groom. And when Oppenheimer recruited Gedge’s successor he turned to Andrew Biddle, who had worked at Hascombe under Gedge before spending the lion’s share of a decade at Lord Derby’s Stanley House Stud.

While there, Biddle foaled down a chestnut colt out of Lord Derby’s outstanding racemare, Ouija Board. He would subsequently prepare the son of Galileo for the yearling sales where, in 2012, he fetched 525,000gns at Tattersalls. That turned out to be Australia, winner of last year’s Derby.

All those involved with Golden Horn’s formative months remember him for the best reason. Which is to say, they barely remember him at all. “Some young horses have major problems and others are very complicated,” Gedge says, “but this one was always very straightforward. You never really knew he was there. He was healthy and just did everything right.”

Golding believes Golden Horn’s placid nature is hereditary. “His dam Fleche D’Or was a lovely mare with a great temperament, as was [her own dam] Nuryana,” he says. “And all the foals we’ve had by [Golden Horn’s sire] Cape Cross have been quite good-natured.”

It’s a little-known fact that on the same day Golden Horn was foaled the stud celebrated another new arrival who would line up against Golden Horn on Derby day. However, the bay colt by High Chaparral was born in Ireland, rather than Hascombe. Sold as a yearling, he was named Moheet and ran in Al Shaqab Racing’s silks at Epsom, where he finished tenth.

Although Moheet was sent to Tattersalls in the same Hascombe consignment as Golden Horn in 2013, it was the presence of another yearling in the draft that probably ensured Golden Horn would return home unsold.

It has been well documented Golden Horn failed to reach his 200,000gns reserve. But that asking price was raised considerably 24 hours after Hascombe had sold a Dansili colt for 525,000gns.

Together with Golden Horn, the Dansili colt was seen as one of two potential stars in the draft. And when the imperative to recoup a handsome financial dividend was satisfied, Oppenheimer was content with the prospect of putting Golden Horn into training in the event his reserve was not attained. There were long faces everywhere at Hascombe that evening except in the proprietor’s house.

It would transpire that fate dealt Oppenheimer a helping hand. The 525,000-guinea Dansili yearling, subsequently named Bartholomew Fair, has won but a humble Yarmouth maiden from five starts. Golden Horn remains unbeaten in five.

Golden Horn as a foal

Derby and Coral-Eclipse winner Golden Horn as a foal


HASCOMBE is run on the principle that staff work hard in exchange for their employer’s paternalistic embrace. “It’s a demanding job, especially during the foaling season,” Golding says. “You can have long days and long nights, which ties you to the place. You don’t really get the chance to get away but having a Derby winner like Golden Horn makes it all worthwhile.

“Many of the staff have been here for a long time and I think Mr Anthony likes that continuity.

“It builds up trust when you have familiar faces around. We always try to give him honest answers when he asks for our opinions about the horses and he is very approachable when you want to talk to him about anything. Mrs O [Oppenheimer’s wife, Antoinette] is exactly the same.”

As for the old chestnut that all and sundry at Hascombe were as sure as sure could be of Golden Horn’s golden future, Steggles lends a sense of perspective. “It’s almost surreal to have had a Derby winner through our hands,” she says. “There is usually one colt each year we think could be the one, but I think to say that of Golden Horn is probably wishful thinking.”

On that note, Golding and Steggles depart for lunch while McGlone, a relative newcomer of eight years’ standing, threads a path through a majestic tree-lined walkway, flanked by mature hedges, with paddocks on either side. The setting is befitting of the thatched stable yard through which you gain entry. The initials “JJ” – which commemorate Sir John Jarvis, who founded the stud in 1936 – are ornately engraved on an archway that houses an elaborately painted clock.

McGlone rode out at Sir Henry Cecil’s for four years before settling at Hascombe, where she has found her professional niche. She speaks enthusiastically about everything to do with the farm, from its many attractive features to its committed workforce.

“This is a way of life,” she says. “With studs, what people don’t see is all the work that goes into getting foals as correct as possible. Keeping them light; weight off the leg you want to stay straight; the paddock management, and so much more.

“People think we just throw the horses out and bring them in for the sales before making a small fortune,” she continues. “There’s a lot more to it than that. The bills are horrendous, but that said, we’ve had the best year anyone could possibly have.

“And the beauty of it is that the Oppenheimers deserve it. The whole thing has been a bit of a whirlwind. The two of them have been like children on Christmas Eve and you can’t help notice everyone is delighted for them. The boss had all his family there on Derby day; I thought he was going to cry.”

Gedge, for his part, laments that Oppenheimer’s father Sir Philip, who died 20 years ago, could not share in the Derby triumph he so craved. “I wish he had been here to see it,” he says. “It would have made him proud.”

And Gedge admits to a minor lament of his own. “In some ways I just wish I’d stayed on until Golden Horn had won the Derby and retired then,” he says. “But I suppose that’s hindsight for you.”

Whatever comes to pass at York this afternoon, nothing can detract from the fact Hascombe and Valiant Studs has achieved the pinnacle of breeding ambition. To win the Derby with a homebred horse is as good as it gets.

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Does the Juddmonte defeat hurt his value? Could it change his career path & see him race on as a 4yo or chase an international win?

Probably not, but at least he showed up. Gleneagles sleeps with the light on.
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438Golden Horn (GB) / La Dorotea (IRE) B.C. Related ResultsWB Z 557
Consignor: Deerfield Farm 
12Golden Horn (GB) / Night Frolic (GB) B.C. Related ResultsHF F 153
Consignor: Highclere Stud 
38Golden Horn (GB) / Polarized (GB) B.C. Related ResultsWB V 489
Consignor: Jamie Railton (Agent) 
263Golden Horn (GB) / Biz Bar (GB) B.F. Related ResultsHF N 200
Consignor: Allevamento Le.Gi., Italy 
137Golden Horn (GB) / Steel Princess (IRE) B.C. Related ResultsHF D 35
Consignor: The Castlebridge Consignment 
330Golden Horn (GB) / Delizia (IRE) B.C. Related ResultsHF M 244
Consignor: Norris Bloodstock 
13Golden Horn (GB) / Nina Celebre (IRE) B.F. Related ResultsHF J 176
Consignor: Stauffenberg Bloodstock 
122Golden Horn (GB) / Snow Pine (GB) B.C. Related ResultsSom O 287
Consignor: Barronstown Stud, Ireland 
398Golden Horn (GB) / Gwael (USA) B.C. Related ResultsHF F 145
Consignor: Highclere Stud 
468Golden Horn (GB) / Lovely Pass (IRE) B.F. Related ResultsLY  599
Consignor: Barton Stud 
161Golden Horn (GB) / Time Being (GB) B.C. Related ResultsSom P 831
Consignor: Mount Coote Stud, Ireland 
245Golden Horn (GB) / Astonishing (IRE) B.C. Related ResultsFur  457
Consignor: Rathbarry Stud, Ireland (Agent) 
336Golden Horn (GB) / Divisimo (GB) B.C. Related ResultsHF K 268
Consignor: Genesis Green Stud 
39Golden Horn (GB) / Polly's Mark (IRE) B.C. Related ResultsWB Z 564
Consignor: Bumble Mitchell 
455Golden Horn (GB) / Liber Nauticus (IRE) Br.C. Related ResultsSom O 281
Consignor: Yeomanstown Stud, Ireland 
402Golden Horn (GB) / Hikari (IRE) B.F. Related ResultsHF F 74
Consignor: La Motteraye Consignment & Omméel 
99Golden Horn (GB) / Screen Star (IRE) Gr.C. Related ResultsHF BB 707
Consignor: Ballylinch Stud, Ireland 
446Golden Horn (GB) / Lady Penko (FR) B.F. Related ResultsHF AA 715
Consignor: Ballylinch Stud, Ireland

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Hello,
Lot 13 Nina Celebre is a Broodmare with a German damline, the Nella da Gubbio  Branch (Catnip). Her best offspring so far is Pakistan Star (Shamardal) and the Close relative "Night of England" was recently seconplaced in the Preis der Diana (German Oaks).
 
In the Yearlings catalogue of the BBAG Yearling Sales, 31. August 2018 (German Auctioneers, Baden-Baden, www.bbag-sales.de) only one offspring of "Golden Horn" is listed, see Lot 80 N.N. Golden Horn/Ninfea from the same damline, but a different branch, best descent is Novellist, now Sire in Japan.
 
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They are the Golden Horn lots from book one - Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. 
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Thank you.
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One interesting lot to some forum users might be #13 a half to Pakistan Star.

Personally I like #245 and #455. Been to the Cashman property a few times and am a big fan of the Rathbarry operation ( 245 ). Liber Nauticus is from the family of Conduit ( 455 ). Both have lovely pedigrees.  
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West End Girl (2f  Golden Horn x Free Rein, by Dansili) wins the Gp3 Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket.



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He was a quirky but great racehorse. Something about him screamed real quality. He is one i will follow with interest as a stallion.

Never forget the Irish Champion when he poleaxed Free Eagle. 2 great horses.
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Hello,
like in 2018, this time 2 Yearlings by Golden Horn are offered at the BBAG Yearlings Sales, 30. August 2019 (Baden-Baden), see Lot 56 Diamantis, colt (Golden Horn-Diamantgöttin by Fantastic Light)(family
of In the Wings), Lot 65 unnamed colt (Golden Horn-Ihsas by Rahy) (Family of Rio de la Plata)
 
Btw, Golden Horn belongs to the same strain of the "Mumtaz Mahal Family" as 'Eight Carat' in AUS. The common ancestress is Courtessa, Lora (Golden Horn) and Klairessa (Eight Carat) are 3/4 relatives.
 
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Thanks Ticino.

And carries two instances of Klairon.
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Only 1 winner so far
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Noticed Golden Horn has a runner at Geelong tomorrow - a Godolphin 2yo colt called Halic.

Is this his 1st runner here in Aust?
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Only has three named 2yo in the stud book
filly Gentle Strokes Hayes/Dabernig (Yulong)
colt     Halic     Godolphin
colt     Tamerlane Godolphin
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All from overseas coverings.


HALIC (AUS)Bay or brown colt 2017 
Golden Horn
Bay 2012
Cape Cross
Bay or brown 1994
Green Desert
Bay 1983
Danzig
Bay 1977
Northern Dancer
Pas de Nom
1961
1968
2-d
7-a
Foreign Courier
Bay 1979
Sir Ivor
Courtly Dee
1965
1968
8-g
A4
Park Appeal
Bay or brown 1982
Ahonoora
Chestnut 1975
Lorenzaccio
Helen Nichols
1965
1966
5-h
1-m
Balidaress
Grey 1973
Balidar
Innocence
1966
1968
8-d
14-c
Fleche d'Or
Bay 2006
Dubai Destination
Bay 1999
Kingmambo
Bay 1990
Mr Prospector
Miesque
1970
1984
13-c
20>
Mysterial
Bay or brown 1994
Alleged
Mysteries
1974
1986
2-s
6-b
Nuryana
Bay 1984
Nureyev
Bay 1977
Northern Dancer
Special
1961
1969
2-d
5-h
Loralane
Bay 1977
Habitat
Lora
1966
1972
4-r
9-c
Dysphonia
Bay 2006
Lonhro
Brown 1998
Octagonal
Brown 1992
Zabeel
Bay 1986
Sir Tristram
Lady Giselle
1971
1982
6-e
16-c
Eight Carat
Brown 1975
Pieces of Eight
Klairessa
1963
1969
3-o
9-c
Shadea
Bay 1988
Straight Strike
Bay or brown 1977
Mr Prospector
Bend Not
1970
1972
13-c
11>
Concia
Bay 1978
First Consul
My Tricia
1970
1974
5-f
8>
Stutter
Bay 1996
Night Shift
Bay 1980
Northern Dancer
Bay 1961
Nearctic
Natalma
1954
1957
14-c
2-d
Ciboulette
Bay or brown 1961
Chop Chop
Windy Answer
1940
1955
2-m
4-g
Murmurs
Grey 1986
Zamazaan
Chestnut 1965
Exbury
Toyama
1959
1955
2-f
7>
Soupir
Grey 1976
Karayar
Sigh
1968
1956
9-c
3-e
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Ciaron Maher bought the filly at Magic Millions - $170k



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