#Eastern Joy

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented here online as a sample. Here he looks at the history of the Guineas winner's breeding and All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then read at your leisure each weekday morning from 7am. In my book, one of the biggest fallacies in the bloodstock industry…

Let me transport your mind back in time, almost 31 years to be precise, when a chestnut mare by the name of Red Slippers (by Nureyev) was breaking her maiden at Ascot by six lengths for her owner-breeder Robert Sangster and was subsequently bought by Sheikh Mohammed. Almost two years on from that date, another chestnut mare by the name of…