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News for 2025 Lanwades

15th April 2025
A NEW STAKES WINNER FOR STUDY OF MAN
Another exciting prospect for STUDY OF MAN as Lanwades homebred ALMERIC wins the competitive Listed Feilden Stakes at Newmarket today. Having raced in mid-division towards the inside, he was nudged forward approaching the two-furlong pole, fighting off KING OF CITIES to win by a length on the line.

ALMERIC is the 13th foal out of the SELKIRK mare ALVARITA, a Stakes-winning daughter of dual Champion Stakes winner ALBORADA. ALBORADA is in turn a sister to triple German Group 1 winner ALBANOVA, who is the granddam of 2022 winner of the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe ALPINISTA and dual St Leger winner ELDAR ELDAROV.

ALVARITA has also produced Group 3 winner ALLA SPERANZA (by SIR PERCY), ALMIRANTA who is the dam of four black-type winners including Gr.1 second ALBAFLORA, and Listed winner ALTESSE.

Miss Rausing told ITV racing after the win “The mare has bred ten winners, including three black-type winners, hopefully there is still more to come. She's got a now two-year-old colt also by STUDY OF MAN and produced a most lovely filly foal the other day by STUDY OF MAN. "He [STUDY OF MAN] is a great stallion and even better is still to come we feel. It [the rain] certainly hasn't stopped him [ALMERIC] but I don't think it made that much difference really. We've obviously got a useful horse on our hands and the question is how much this race will bring him on, I felt he was still showing signs of greenness."

ALMERIC is the 12th individual Stakes performer for his young sire and the 6th individual Stakes winner which includes Group 1 winner KALPANA and Group 2 winners BIRTHE and DEEPONE.

 ALMERIC is shown here at 3 weeks old with his dam, ALVARITA.

14th March 2025
ALYSSA with her STUDY OF MAN foal
Group 2 winner and fifth generation Lanwades-bred ALYSSA (by SIR PERCY) with her colt foal by STUDY OF MAN.

The mare’s first 3 foals are all winners, her daughters ALBANY and ALLONSY remain in training with Ralph Beckett for 2025 who also trained ALYSSA to win 5 races including the Gr.2 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster in 2017.

 

 

 

28th February 2025
ALPINISTA WITH HER SECOND FOAL
World-Champion, “Arc” winner ALPINISTA, with her second foal, a colt by Lanwades’ STUDY OF MAN, leading second season sire in the Northern Hemisphere, 2024. ALPINISTA’s first foal is a now yearling filly by DUBAWI and she will visit SIYOUNI this year.

Her dam, ALWILDA, is due to SEA THE STARS, and her Stakes-Winning half-sister ALPENBLUME is due her first foal to FRANKEL; both these mares will visit STUDY OF MAN in 2025.

“The colt foal is very representative of his sire; correct and well-balanced with great presence.” said breeder Kirsten Rausing. “I am of course delighted ALPINISTA has produced such a good individual, again, after her first foal last year”.

 

 

LUKE MORRIS AND SIR MARK PRESCOTT PAY A VISIT TO LANWADES
“Great to catch up with ‘The Queen’ ALPINISTA and her STUDY OF MAN colt. Looking a million dollars!” says Luke Morris who rode ALPINISTA in 9 of her 10 wins (6 of them Group 1’s).

25th February 2025
Under The Radar: 10 British-Trained Three-Year-Olds to Follow in 2025 - TDN 23rd February 2025

ALMERIC (GB)
By Study Of Man (Ire) colt out of Alvarita (GB) (Selkirk)
Form: 41
Trainer: Andrew Balding

Study Of Man only has 58 two-year-olds to run for him this year, but there's enough promise among his latest crop of three-year-olds to suggest this is a stallion we're going to continue to hear plenty about in the coming months, after a blistering start to his second career at Lanwades Stud.

One such name to look out for is that of Almeric, a homebred from the family synonymous with Lanwades owner Kirsten Rausing. His maiden victory at York in October saw him become the tenth winner (from 13 runners) out of his Listed-winning dam, with the others including the G3 Kilternan Stakes scorer Alla Speranza (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}). Alvarita, in turn, is out of the dual G1 Champion Stakes heroine Alborada (GB) (Alzao), a full-sister to the three-time Group 1 winner Albanova, whose Listed-winning daughters All At Sea (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Alwilda (GB) (Hernando {Fr}) have produced Eldar Eldarov (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}), respectively.

All eyes will be on Alpinista's two-year-old full-sister, recently named Alpinara, when she takes to the track this year with a 2.5 million guineas price tag on her head, but Almeric could be the one to watch after his breakthrough win on the Knavesmire, by a length from the standard-setting favourite. That appeals as strong form–the first two pulled four lengths clear of a next-time-out winner in third–and the way Almeric came home over a mile on soft ground suggests he'll be well suited by middle-distances this year..

17th February 2025
A NEW WINNER FOR STUDY OF MAN
Four-year-old CHIQUITIN becomes STUDY OF MAN’s 25th individual winner from his first crop when winning in Spain yesterday.