Newsells Park Stud claims major honours through Waldgeist success

It was not quite the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe result with a Newsells Park link that the vast majority of Longchamp spectators yearned for, but one which worked out even better for the stud itself.

Enable has long carried the flag for Newsells stallion Nathaniel and halfway down the straight it appeared that her history-making mission was about to become reality.

In the end, she was downed by a rival who was owned and bred by the Hertfordshire operation in partnership with Gestut Ammerland’s Dietrich von Boetticher.

If that was not enough, Newsells Park also bred fourth home Japan, the Galileo-sired colt out of super-producer Shastye who cost Coolmore partners 1,300,000gns at Tattersalls Book 1 in 2017.

It proved an unusual and emotional occasion for the stud's general manager Julian Dollar.

"It was an amazing result," he said. "I had the whole of my family and my mother tell me that it doesn’t matter if we owned all of them, she was going to be cheering on Enable and I said to her 'don’t worry, so are the rest of us'.

Newsells Park manager Julian Dollar thought the result a 'great tribute' to the stud's founder Klaus JacobsCredit: Laura Green

"That filly has meant so much to us because of Nathaniel and everything she’s done for him, and everything she’s done for racing.

"She’s a favourite with everybody so to see her beaten was tough, but obviously for us it’s a wonderful thing to breed an Arc winner, that doesn’t happen very often, and it’s a great tribute to Klaus Jacobs, who started the stud nearly 20 years ago.

"He’ll be looking down on us and he’ll be so proud because the granddam of Waldgeist (Waldmark) was his favourite mare, he bought her as a foal because he wanted to get into that family, he bred the dam and then bred an Arc winner, that’s everything he would have dreamed of doing.

"So for him its very special, it was nice his son Andreas was there and it’s special for the whole Jacobs family and the whole team at home. It means a lot."

Waldgeist, now a Galileo-sired multiple Group 1 scorer including with a win as a two-year-old and Classic places, has already done his dam Waldlerche and his German bloodlines proud, while there are plenty of relatives in the offing.

A sister to Waldgeist is to be sent into training with Andre FabreCredit: Edward Whitaker

"Waldgeist is her first foal," Dollar told GBRI. "She bred a New Approach filly Waldlied, who won the Group 2 Prix de Malleret. We thought the world of her and that she might be coming to the Arc this year but she did a tendon, that was that.

"The Sea The Stars (Waldstern) was a winner first-time-out but hasn't quite fulfilled his promise and there’s a Kingman two-year-old that’s with John Gosden that we think a lot of.

"She’s got a yearling full-sister to Waldgeist that’s going to go to Andre Fabre to repeat the partnership. She’s got no foal and she’s in-foal to Dubawi, so there are lots of nice things coming along."

Newsells Park was last year’s leading Book 1 vendor and although there is no foal from Shastye on offer this year to follow the likes of Sir Isaac Newton, Secret Gesture and Mogul, she already has offspring to carry on the good work instead.

The first foal of her winning Shamardal daughter Secret Sense, an Oasis Dream colt, comes in early in Tuesday's first session at lot 18.

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