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'She's very important to us' - high-class performers and producers headline Newsells Park Stud's 2025 matings
Kitty Trice speaks to general manager Julian Dollar about the operation's blue-blooded team of mares

Another power-packed sales season for Newsells Park Stud is set to be followed by a hectic period of foalings and coverings in the coming weeks.
Fillies out of Aljazzi and Shambolic created plenty of headlines for Graham Smith-Bernal's team when selling for 4,400,000gns and 3,700,000gns respectively at the top of the tree for Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, while Irish Oaks heroine You Got To Me, owned in partnership with Valmont, joined Aljazzi's Frankel filly in selling to Amo Racing at the December Mare Sale for 4,800,000gns.
Such is the depth of the Newsells broodmare band and the potential talent coming through that general manager Julian Dollar will manage the pair carefully.
Dollar said: "The plan is for Aljazzi to be rested. She's carrying to Too Darn Hot but had a late service; she's due the end of May. She has the exciting filly Amo Racing and Alex Elliott bought and a yearling full-brother who will go to Book 1 all being well.
"Shambolic is doing very well but, again, is due late. She's pretty much a definite to be rested this year as she's due in mid-May, but she has a very nice yearling Frankel filly who we plan to retain in partnership with her joint-owner, Craig Bennett. She's in foal to Frankel again and we're very excited about her future."
The Hertfordshire stud was also among the buyers at the mare sales last year, picking up Group 3 Pride Stakes winner Novus and Listed Upavon Fillies' Stakes scorer Rousay at Tattersalls.

Dollar said of Novus, a dual stakes-winning daughter of Dandy Man recruited for 400,000gns from owner Omar Jackson: "We've decided to send her to Blue Point. She's a nice young mare and we think he'll suit her very well."
He added: "Rousay will go to Wootton Bassett, having just foaled a very attractive filly by Modern Games."
Wide-margin French Listed winner Grand Stars will have a different route planned out after selling to Newsells for €800,000 at Arqana in December.
Dollar said: "We were looking to send her to Frankel but, since she showed her best form at the end of last year with Gerald Mosse, we've decided to give her another year in training with Gerald in the hope of winning further black type."
Group 2 Prix du Muguet winner and immaculately bred Sibila Spain was picked up from Arqana's Breeding Stock Sale in 2023, when fetching €2 million. Having foaled a filly by Dubawi last year, the seven-year-old was unfortunately barren to Darley's champion sire last year and will visit Lope De Vega this time around.
Dollar said: "We've had a slight change in plan. Dubawi has been a wonderful stallion for us both on the racecourse and in the sales ring, but we took the step to move on and we like the cross of Frankel with Lope De Vega. We've been a shareholder in Lope De Vega from day one, are big fans of the horse, and there are some particularly good stats on that cross."
Also booked into the Ballylinch Stud kingpin are Innevera, based with partners Fittocks Stud and the dam of multiple Group/Graded winner Ottoman Fleet, and Luminate, a dual Group winner by Lawman.

The grande dame of the band is Waldlerche, a Group winner by Monsun and the dam of Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Waldgeist, Group 2 Prix de Malleret scorer Waldlied and Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes winner Waldkonig.
The half-sister to Masked Marvel and daughter of Waldmark could well add to an already impressive CV at paddocks.
Dollar said: "We had a long discussion about her as she's undoubtedly one of our queens. She's got a lovely Dubawi yearling who we may well keep, a Frankel three-year-old with William Haggas who is an impressive horse, and a two-year-old Frankel filly we've retained with our 2025 racing and breeding syndicate.
"She's going back to Sea The Stars as she had a very good horse by him called Waldstern, who was with John Gosden but sadly broke a leg on the gallops. He was rated 107 as a three-year-old and I felt he was a Group winner in waiting. If you could breed a filly out of her by Sea The Stars, that would be an exciting racing and broodmare prospect."
Her daughter Waldlied, meanwhile, is back from Japan and set for a date closer to home having been covered by Equinox.
"We were tempted to leave her out there and breed her again to one of Shadai's stallions, but ultimately we decided to bring her home," said Dollar. "She's due in the middle of this month and will then visit Too Darn Hot.
"She's a big New Approach mare and we loved the Dubawi out of her we sold last year; she was a very special filly. We thought we'd go to one of Dubawi's exciting young sons and Too Darn Hot fitted the bill."
Also slated for Too Darn Hot is Feminism, a winning Shamardal half-sister to Classic winners Modern Games and Mawj.

Another mare with a tip-top pedigree is Secret Gaze, a Galileo daughter of the team's much-missed phenomenon Shastye.
The sister to Group 1 winners Japan and Mogul, and Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture, is set for a suitably regal mating.
"Secret Gaze has been knocking on the door and is very important to us," said Dollar. "We own her outright now and she's going to visit Justify, who will suit her very well physically. We know the Galileos work well with Justify, but also there's good evidence to say he's working especially well with mares whose dams are by Danehill."
Group winner and Nassau Stakes second One Voice will be among the first book of Coolmore's dual Derby hero Auguste Rodin, while Harzand's half-sister Hazaranda is set for Study Of Man. The nine-year-old is by Dansili and the mating would be on the same cross as the exciting Kalpana.
Two mares booked in for repeat matings with Frankel are also bred on proven crosses. Listed winner Mea Domina is by Pivotal and has just produced a filly by Juddmonte's megastar, while the Dubawi-sired stakes performer Yummylicious is expecting to him and is set to fill the footsteps of her dam, the prolific Yummy Mummy.
Dollar said: "Yummy Mummy was telling us her active days as a broodmare were over, so she's been retired and will live out the rest of her days at Newsells."
Ideal blend of youth and experience on Newsells stallion roster
Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Isaac Shelby is new to the stallion roster this year and set for strong support from Newsells and racing owners Wathnan.
The first son of Night Of Thunder to stud, the chestnut was a short neck runner-up to Marhaba Ya Sanafi in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains at three, having landed the Group 3 Greenham Stakes from subsequent champion miler Charyn.
"He's doing very well and I'd imagine he'll cover around 120-130 mares," Dollar said of the five-year-old. "Wathnan will be supporting him – if not with mares this year, as they're building up a broodmare band, then certainly in the marketplace – while we'll be sending him around ten mares.
"He was a bloody good racehorse, a Group 2-winning two-year-old and who won the Greenham brilliantly and only just failed to win the French Guineas. He looks great value at £7,000.
"He's a great-looking horse and has that wonderful temperament you associate with the Dubawi line and with Night Of Thunder in particular.
"I say it every year, but the temperament of a stallion is such a vital ingredient."
The undoubted king of the team is Nathaniel. Sire of Classic stars such as the phenomenal Enable, Derby hero Desert Crown and You Got To Me, the 17-year-old has earned a place among the best sires in Europe.

Dollar said of the farm's pride and joy: "His book will be full again this year, no question. He's been very busy for the last couple of years and, although he's an unbelievably good coverer in the shed, we'd be happy to reduce his book from 150-160 to 130-140.
"It's been good to see people appreciating his stock in the sales ring in a way we've not seen in the last few years; there's that general acceptance he's a thoroughly good stallion who produces top-class horses every year."
The roster also includes Without Parole, the St James's Palace Stakes winner whose first runners last year included dual Group 3-placed Fiery Lucy and Listed-placed Sea To Sky, and A'Ali, a multiple Group-winning sprinter at two and three whose first crop will hit the track in the months ahead.
Dollar said: "I was very impressed with Without Parole's first runners, and he won at two but was at his best at three. He wasn't blessed with a huge crop as he unfortunately had a setback in his first season, but he still came out and produced the likes of Fiery Lucy and Mr Chaplin.
"The Gunthers bred another exciting filly in Sea To Sky, who is out of a big mare, so you'd imagine she'd be much better at three. He's ticking away and we're aiming for 100-plus mares again this season.
"A'Ali's going to be one of those commercial speed horses where if the breezes of his horses look impressive, or if he gets a couple of early winners, he'll be chock-a-block.
"It's the same old cliche, his progeny are what they say on the tin, they're mini A'Alis, and they seem to have his positive outlook."
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