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The Sunday Syndicates Post – Vol. 3, Issue 33

A date with destiny awaits our stakes placed winning two year old Mise le Meas who will go under the hammer for the fourth time in her life as lot 1777 during Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday evening in Newmarket. The talented filly broke her maiden on her second start in impressive fashion in Gowran Park after running a superb third behind future Group 1 and Classic winning fillies Discoveries and Tuesday at the Curragh on Derby weekend.

She subsequently went onto finish 5th in the Group 2 Debutante Stakes when 4/1 co-favorite before signing off her juvenile campaign with a 3rd place finish in the Listed Blenheim Stakes. On her seasonal reappearance she returned to the site of her maiden victory and was an unlucky 2nd beaten half a length. She was then just ran out of 3rd place in the Group 3 Athasi Stakes at the Curragh a couple of weeks later. She went onto make history for us when she joined Golden Mayflower in becoming our first runners at Royal Ascot in 2022. Things didn’t go to plan that day unfortunately and she had no luck in the Del Mar Oaks on her final start.

Mise le Meas and Shane Kelly at the Curragh. Photo credit: Emma O’Brien

Mise le Meas first went through the sales ring as a foal in 2019 when she was signed for at €36,000 by Rathasker Stud at the Goffs November Foals sales. She reappared a year later at the Goffs Orby sale which was held at Doncaster due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We loved her when we saw her. She was a fine big strong strapping correct filly with a lovely presence. She just lacked a walk but many by the sire, New Bay, and grandsire, Dubawi, can lack a walk. She had the pedigree to match being a half sister to a Group 1 winner out of an Indian Ridge mare which we loved so we were delighted to be able to purchase her for just £36,000.

New Bay ex. Mise filly at the 2020 Goffs Orby Yearling sale.

We put her into training with Johnny Murtagh and she was aptly named Mise le Meas which is the Irish for “it is I with respect” or more commonly referred to as “yours sincerely” and the rest as they say is history. She made her third sales ring appearance in Keeneland In January when Chad Schumer signed the docket on behalf of Tinnakill House Stud at $130,000 and the decision was taken to mate her to the Triple Crown winning, Group 1 producing, legend that is American Pharoah.

AP is one of the best walking stallions standing at stud and is a complete outcross. He’s also had an excellent strike record of producing European Group 1 horses such as Above The Curve, Van Gough, Pista and Nicest. He was chosen as an ideal first mate for Mise as a proven sire who matches her physically whilst offering a diverse gene pool that will appeal to a worldwide audience.

Mise le Meas is catalogued as lot 1777 in Tattersalls on Tuesday.

To add even further appeal her very close relation, Etes Vous Prets, a 2yo filly by Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) has won two races and placed twice from all her starts to date in Japan. Mise le Meas is somewhat of a collectors item and would be the diamond of many stud farms broodmare band. She was a fantastic servant for us and her owners and we can’t wait to follow her next career for many years to come.

Newport Bay sells on Tuesday.

The buck doesn’t stop there as Newport Bay will go under the hammer as lot 1851 on Tuesday also. She is the last lot through the ring on Tuesday so patience will be required. The daughter of New Bay hasn’t quite hit the heights we had expected this season and things didn’t quite go to plan on more than one occasion. However, she has definitely showed enough ability to win a race and would be a nice proposition for someone going forward.

Class of 2024

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Syndicates Horse Of The Week

We had a huge response last week to this new segment so we’ll keep it rolling over the coming weeks and months. This week we’re going to preview what I would describe as a very “untypical” Syndicates.Racing horse. Our Diamond Boy filly out of Kilbarry Medoc is usually the type of filly that goes way beyond our budget. Now we did have to stretch our usual budget having gone to €34,000 but we had plenty left in the tank as we did really believe in this filly.

Diamond Boy ex. Kilbarry Medoc filly.

She stands at 16.2hh and will grow even more. She’s built like and out and out chaser. A fine big scopey strong good moving mare with all the attributes of a top national hunt horse. How could we afford her? She popped a splint (a hard bony swelling on the inside of the cannon bone) when she arrived at the sales complex which turned some people off her. Splints, once in the right place, don’t bother us in the slightest as with the right care and treatment early on they rarely cause issues in a horses racing career. Take West End Victory for example she also had a splint at the time of her purchase at the Derby sale and went on to win first time out and remains one of our most exciting national hunt prospects this season.

Our Diamond Boy filly showing off her great big ears and lovely honest eye.

I say “untypical” as there is an absolute obsession in the national hunt world with size. The bigger the better they say and the more expensive they get. From our past experiences this is not the case and we’ve found our best value and talent in smaller animals but on this occasion the cards just fell right for us. I think I went to see her four, if not five times and everytime I went to see her she gave me the exact same show. She dropped the head and powered up and down with a lovely loose swinging walk, stood to attention and took in her surroundings marking herself as a filly with a lovely presence who stood over a lot of ground. She was very hard to fault.

Diamond Boy ex. Kilbarry Medoc at Breakfast With The Stars

We treated her splint straight away and it’s barely noticeable now. Jack and I paid her a visit during the week and we were delighted with her condition. She will join Willie Mullins in 2024 and she already has a big fan in the shape of Patrick Mullins who absolutely loved her at the Breakfast With The Stars during the summer. Check out his thoughts below.

Our underbidder on the day was the man who produced Sharp Object (Diamond Boy), Paddy Turley and he was gutted not to be able to secure her as he absolutely loves the sire and he thought she was a standout physical. Sonny Carey was another man who loved her at the sales and had he not bought the full sister to Queens Gamble earlier in the day he would’ve went head-to-head with us to try and secure the filly. We gave her to Sonny to break and he described her as “An absolute Queen of a filly” so we’re happy we came out on the winning side of this one!

She comes from one of the most exciting families in the book with Cheltenham Festival Winners throughout the page. Her breeders, the O’Keefe family of Kilbarry Lodge Stud, are some of the best breeders in the country. She’s from one of their best families and doesn’t look like one that will let the page down. Her sire needs no introduction and is one who is firmly on the rise mainly through the dual Grade 1 winner Impaire Et Passe, our very own Sharp Object, Festival Grade 1 winner L’Homme Presse and a whole host of exciting P2P winners headed by the Damma House winning 4yo Quantum Boy who reportedly sold for an eye watering sum of money after his 40 length success at the beginning of November. Again, like Jeu St Eloi we seem to have hit a sire on the crest of a wave and got in there just before he goes stratospheric.

Thank you.

Thanks for reading. If there is anything we can do for you please do get in touch john@syndicates.racing.

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