Bred by Darley, Kirklees is a half brother to this year's Italian Derby winner Mastery (Sulamani) out of a winning half sister to Group Three winner Bowman. The second dam, Cherokee Rose, was a multiple Group winner for Sheikh Mohammed and John Hammond, winning the Group One Prix Maurice de Gheest and the Haydock Sprint Cup in 1995.

In 2008 Jade Robbery had seven winners from 23 runners; this season he has four winners, including Listed winner ceremonail Jade, from only 12 runners thus far.

Iver Bridge Lad fetched 8,000 gns as a foal but only 1,000 gns as a yearling; he is a half-brother to a placed runner out of a winning half-sister to a number of winners.

Whitsbury Manor Stud resident Avonbridge joins Le Vie dei Colori, Rock Hard Ten, Oratorio and Starcraft as a first season sire with a stakes winner to his name. The son of Averti has six winners from only 25 runners thus far and today's win moves him above Dubawi into fifth place on the first crop sires' list. Avonbridge had 48 yearlings sell last year for an average of £16,500 with a top price at the DBS St Leger Sale of £74,000.

VALLEY CHAPEL MEMORIAL-Listed

NKr700,000, Ovrevoll, 7-2, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT, time: n/a, gd.

1--APPEL AU MAITRE (FR), 132, h, 5
Starborough (GB)--Rotina (Fr), by Crystal Glitters.

The Arqana Summer Sale at Saint-Cloud on Thursday saw generally quiet trading boosted by the draft from the Aga Khan's Studs. Triumph Hurdle winner Zaynar was part of last year's draft from the Aga Khan, and this year he saw all 12 of his lots sell for an aggregate of €688,000 at an average of €57,333.

GOLDEN FLEECE S.-Listed

€42,500, Fairyhouse, 7-1, 2yo, 7fT, 1:28.39, gd.

1--PERFECT SYMMETRY (IRE), 127, c, 2
Le Vie Dei Colori (GB)--Wide Range (Ire), by Spectrum (Ire)

A €20,000 Goffs yearling, Perfect Symmetry is a half brother to a winner out of a placed half sister to Group Two Great Voltigeur winner Air Marshall and Group Three winner Break Bread.

First season sire Le Vie Dei Colori has five winners in Europe so far, and this is his first stakes winner. The son of Efisio had 19 yearlings sell for an average of £14,700 with a top price of £50,000 last year and he is now the leading non-Coolmore sire on our list of leading first crop sires in 2009. He is also the leading son of Efisio at stud this year.

PREIS DER SPIELBANK HAMBURG-G3

€50,000, Hamburg, 7-1, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:38.10, gd.

1--CARO JINA (FR), 123, f, 3
Dai Jin (GB)--Caronment (GB), by Environment Friend (GB)

Caro Jina is out of a half sister to Stewards' Cup winner Gift Horse and is a rare stakes success for broodmare sire Environment Friend.

Caro Jina is Dai Jin's leading earner this year; the son of Peintre Celebre has three stakes winners amongst his six individual winners from only 11 runners in Europe this term.

IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF BROWNSTOWN S.-G3

€82,000, Fairyhouse, 7-1, 3/up, f/m, 7fT, 1:25.91, gd.

1--GLOWING (IRE), 132, f, 4
Dansili (GB)--Brightest (GB), by Rainbow Quest

A 160,000 gns Tattersalls yearling, Glowing is a half sister to a placed runner out of the placed mare Brightest, a daughter of champion three-year-old filly Wemyss Bight, winner of four Group races including the Group One Irish Oaks, and a half sister to multiple Group/Grade One winner Beat Hollow and Grade Three winner Yaralino. Wemyss Bight is from an excellent Juddmonte family and is a half sister to the dams of Oasis Dream and Reefscape.

This is the sixth stakes winner of the season for Dansili, who has 56 individual winners in Europe so far this term - but has yet to have a juvenile winner. With his average earnings per start 22% up on lst year, the Juddmonte sire looks set to improve on last year when he was tenth on the general sires' list. Glowing is bred on the same Dansili - Rainbow Quest cross as Group winners Famous Name and Sense Of Joy.

HAMBURG-DRESDEN-POKAL - 141ST LANGER HAMBURGER-Listed

€20,000, Hamburg, 6-30, 4yo/up, 2mT, 3:26.48, gd.

1--TARKHEENA PRINCE, 121, g, 4
Aldebaran--Tarkheena, by Alleged.

A 20,000 gns Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale graduate, Tarkheena Prince is a half brother to Listed winner Coimbra and Group Two-placed Clerical Error out of an unraced half sister to Grade Two winner Heron Cove. The second dam Comtesse de Loir was champion three-year-old in France and won the Group One Prix Saint-Alary and was second four times in Group Ones including the Prix de Diane, the Vermeille and the Arc.

This is the first European stakes winner of the year for Aldebaran, who has three winners from only nine runners in Europe so far.

GRAND PRIX DE COMPIEGNE-Listed

€60,000, Compiegne, 6-30, 4yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 2:02.77, gd/sf.

1--DALY DALY (FR), 120, m, 5
Medaaly (GB)--Dame Phanie (Fr), by Kaldoun (Fr).

Homebred by Bernard Giraudon, Daly Daly is a half sister to at least three winners out of the placed Kaldoun mare Dame Phanie, a half sister to the seven time winner Benares out of the winning mare Delphania.

This is the eighth winner and first stakes winner of the season for Medaaly, who has had 42 runners in Europe thus far.

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113TH HANSA-PREIS DER BESITZERVEREINIGUNG FUR VOLLBLUTZUCHT UND RENNEN E.V. RUDOLF-AUGUST-OETKERGEDACHTNISRENNEN-G2

€75,000, Hamburg, 6-28, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:28.17, gd.

1--FLAMINGO FANTASY (GER), 128, c, 4
Fantastic Light--Flamingo Road (Ger), by Acatenango (Ger)

A €58,000 BBAG purchase, Flamingo Fantasy was a Listed winner on May Day and is out of dual Group Two winner Flamingo Road, who comes from a prolific family of winners, with her siblings including dual Listed winner Flamingo Paradise and the Group-placed Flamingo Queen and Flamingo Garden.

Fantastic Light is having a good season, with 37 individual winners in Europe at a 32% strike rate. Four-year-olds Scintillo and Flamingo Fantasy are his stakes winners with two Group wins and a Listed win apiece and Som Tala landed the valuable Northumberland Plate on Saturday.

DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH DERBY-G1

€1,500,000, Curragh, 6-28, 3yo, c/f, 1 1/2mT, 2:30.87, gd/yl.

1--FAME AND GLORY (GB), 126, c, 3
Montjeu (Ire)--Gryada (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)

A 190,000 gns Tattersalls foal, Fame And Glory is out of the winning Group Three-placed mare Gryada, also the dam of the winning Listed-placed pair Grampian and Guaranda. The second dam Grimpola won the Group Two German 1000 Guineas.

Fame And Glory joins Motivator (who is having his first runners as a sire at the moment and awaits his first winner), Authorized, Hurricane Run and Frozen Fire as Derby-winning sons of Montjeu, who has 41 European winners this term. The son of Sadler's Wells has only one juvenile winner thus far, and overall only 14% of his wins come from two-year-olds, with 48% in the three-year-old division. He leads our list of leading middle distance sires by European earnings.

PRIX DE MALLERET-G2

€130,000, Saint-Cloud, 6-28, 3yo, f, 1 1/2mT, 2:30.60, sf.

1--ASHALANDA (FR), 121, f, 3
Linamix (Fr)--Ashaninka, by Woodman

An Aga Khan homebred, Ashalanda is out of the placed mare Ashaninka. The second dam Intriguing, herself a placed runner, is a half sister to Grade One winner and sire Quiet American.

With Ashalanda and Manighar winning stakes races over the weekend, Linamix is on a roll. He has five individual stakes winners this season, 23% of his 22 winners, and looks certain to exceed his 2008 earnings total.

NETJETS RAILWAY S.-G2

€120,000, Curragh, 6-28, 2yo, 6fT, 1:15.05, gd/yl.

1--ALFRED NOBEL (IRE), 127, c, 2
Danehill Dancer (Ire)--Glinting Desert (Ire), by Desert Prince (Ire)

A 220,000 gns Tattersalls yearling, Alfred Nobel is the first foal out of the winning mare Glinting Desert. The second dam Dazzling Park was a Group Three winner and second in the Group One Irish Champion Stakes, making her champion three-year-old filly in 1999. The third dam Park Express was herself a champion, winning the Irish Champion Stakes, the Nassau Stakes and the Lancashire Oaks before retiring to the paddocks where she has produced, inter alia, New Approach and Shinko Forest.

Alfred Nobel is inbred 3x4 to Danzig and combines the Danehill and Green Desert branches of that sire line. He is Danehill Dancer's 11th stakes winner of the season and his eighth juvenile winner from 24 runners; his great rival for the sires' title Cape Cross has four juvenile winners from 15 runners.

WOODIES DIY CELEBRATION S.-Listed

€62,500, Curragh, 6-28, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:36.70, gd/yl.

1--FAMOUS NAME (GB), 138, c, 4
Dansili (GB)--Fame at Last, by Quest for Fame (GB).

Famous Name is a half-brother to the winners Final Esteem, Everlasting Fame and Anchor Date out of a winning mare. The second dam is a half sister to the Listed winner Rambushka, the granddam of the great Australian racemare Makybe Diva.

Dansili has 56 winners at a healthy 40% strike rate this year, with his five stakes winners headed by dual Group One-second Delegator and King Edward VII Stakes winner Father Time. He leads Oasis Dream and trails only Pivotal by European earnings on our list of leading British-based stallions this year.

GRAND PRIX DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1

€400,000, Saint-Cloud, 6-28, 4yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:27.40, sf.

1--SPANISH MOON, 128, h, 5
El Prado (Ire)--Shining Bright (GB), by Rainbow Quest

A Juddmonte homebred, Spanish Moon is a brother to Group Two Ribblesdale Stakes winner Spanish Sun out of a winning half sister to Group Two winner and Group One second Daring Miss, Group Three winner Apogee and successful handicapper Bourgeois, all out of Oaks second Bourbon Girl.

Spanish Moon is the first European Group One winner for Adena Springs sire El Prado, a son of Sadler's Wells whose son Medaglia d'Oro is the runaway leader of the second crop list in America. El Prado has nine winners in Europe from 36 runners, with Prix Daphnis winner Golden Century hsi other Pattern winner.

DUBAI DUTY FREE SAPPHIRE S.-G3

€70,000, Curragh, 6-28, 3yo/up, 5fT, 1:00.03, gd/yl.

1--BENBAUN (IRE), 131, g, 8
Stravinsky--Escape to Victory (GB), by Salse

A 14,000 gns DBS yearling, Benbaun is a half brother to a winner out of a winning half sister to the Grade Three winning miler Hawksley Hill.

This is the second Group winner of the year for Stravinsky, who has 21 individual winners in Europe at a 40% strike rate. His yearling average down under this spring was £67,000 for 43 sold, with a top price of NZ$775,000 for a filly at Karaka in January.

HAMBURGER MEILE - FRANZ-GUNTHER VON GAERTNER-GEDACHTNISRENNEN-G3

€50,000, Hamburg, 6-27, 3yo/up, 1mT, 1:34.55, gd.

1--EARL OF FIRE (GER), 130, g, 4
Areion (Ger)--Evry (Ger), by Torgos (Ger)

Areion, who had 27 winners, including three stakes winners, at a 51% strike rate last year, has 18 winners at a 39% strike rate so far in 2009. This is his first stakes winner of the year, and his third career Group winner.

AT THE RACES CURRAGH CUP-G3

€70,000, Curragh, 6-27, 3yo/up, 1 3/4mT, 3:03.35, yl.

1--PROFOUND BEAUTY (IRE), 134, m, 5
Danehill--Diamond Trim (Ire), by Highest Honor (Fr)

This is the second stakes winner and seventh winner from only 26 runners for the late Danehill, who is second only to Sadler's Wells as leading leading sire of sires in 2009, with Danehill Dancer vying with Cape Cross for the champion sire title this year.

GRAND PRIX ANJOU BRETAGNE - PRIX CENTENAIRE DU SYNDICAT DES PROPRIETAIRES-Listed

€52,000, Nantes, 6-27, 4yo/up, 1mT, 1:38.84, sf.

1--PRINCE FASLIYEV (GB), 130, h, 5
Fasliyev--Malaisienne (Fr), by Saumarez (GB)

This is the second stakes winner of the season for Fasliyev, the sire of Group One winner Carry On Katie. The son of Nureyev has 51 individual winners from 150 runners this term, a number bettered by only five sires.

TOTESPORT.COM FRED ARCHER S.-Listed

£40,000, Newmarket, 6-27, 4yo/up, 1 1/2mT, 2:30.95, gd.

1--ALL THE ACES (IRE), 126, c, 4
Spartacus (Ire)--Lili Cup (Fr), by Fabulous Dancer.

This is the first stakes winner of the season - and potentially the best ever runner - for Spartacus, who has nine European winners from 41 runners.

SUNLEY EMPRESS S.-Listed

£30,000, Newmarket, 6-27, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:12.91, gd.

1--JIRA (GB), 124, f, 2
Medicean (GB)--Time Saved (GB), by Green Desert

A 110,000 gns Tattersalls yearling, Jira is a three-parts sister to King Edward VII Stakes winner Plea Bargain and a half-sister to Dubai Time and Emirates Sports out of a winning half-sister to Zinaad and Time Allowed, herself out of the great Time Charter.

This is the second Listed winner of the year for Medicean, who has 23 winners from 109 runners in the UAE and Europe this year. Jira is his sole juvenile winner from 10 runenrs this term, and indeed only 10% of the Cheveley Park sire's wins come from his two-year-olds.

DERBY DE L'OUEST - GRAND PRIX DE L'ASSELCO-Listed

€55,000, Nantes, 6-27, 3yo, 1 1/2mT, 2:36.35, sf.

1--MANIGHAR (FR), 128, g, 3
Linamix (Fr)--Mintly Fresh, by Rubiano

This is the fourth stakes winner of the year for Linamix, whose leading earner is Group Two Prix Corrida winner Alpine Rose. He has 22 winners from 88 runners and is ninth on our list of leading sires in France this year - his son Slickly is sixth.

FREEBETS.CO.UK CHIPCHASE S.-G3

£66,000, Newcastle, 6-27, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:14.03, sf.

1--KNOT IN WOOD (IRE), 129, g, 7
Shinko Forest (Ire)--Notley Park (Ire), by Wolfhound

Shinko Forest has eight winners from 38 runners in Europe and the UAE this year, headed by Knot In Wood - his leading earner last year - and Shinko's Best, his two stakes winners (6% stakes winners to runners), and Nad al Sheba handicap winner Swop. Last year he saw only seven yearlings sold, for an average of £22,400, with Shadwell going to 100,000 gns for a colt at Tattersalls.