She was acquired for €700,000 carrying the subsequent winner Savoureuse (Siyouni), but that filly was unable to find favour at the yearling sales and was retained at €190,000, despite her full-brother Sacred Life (Siyouni) being a multiple Group 3 and Grade 3 winner in France and the USA, and Grade 1-placed. Purchased by Gerard Larrieu for $270,000 at the Arqana Yearling Sale, Feed The Flame has quickly jumped to the head of the winners produced by his unraced dam, Knyazhna, a daughter of Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells). It is an anomaly of the system, but in 95% of cases the animal is also foaled in the country of origin. If memory hasn’t failed me completely, Gerald Leigh was unhappy that one of his winners was being advertised as an Irish-bred, the dam having been sent to Ireland to foal and be covered. I recall a similar incident many years ago when the introduction of suffixes came about. However, the colt was foaled in England, the determining factor when adding the (GB) suffix to his name, is by a British-based stallion, and has a British component to his breeding partnership. His Group 2 winners include Calyx, who this week had his breakthrough first stakes winner.īred in partnership by Ecurie des Monceaux, Lordship Stud and Clear Light, Feed The Flame’s success led to some unhappiness on social media that he was being promoted as a British-bred, while Ecurie des Monceaux was proud of the fact that he was raised by them in France. Fascinatingly, he has achieved all of this without a single member of his 2019 crop, this year’s four-year-olds, winning at either Group 1 or Group 2 level - yet. One of the eight top level winners for Kingman is the Australian-born King Colorado, while the remainder come from the first five European crops by the four-time Group 1 winner. Unraced at two, he tackled stakes company for the first time when he was thrown in at the deep end, and was not disgraced, though well beaten, running fourth in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby. This week I will give pride of place to the latter, as he sired his eighth Group/Grade winner when the three-year-old Feed The Flame landed the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris on only his fourth start. Mind you, they appear more often than most, given that their two superstars are none other than Frankel (Galileo) and Kingman (Invincible Spirit).

All songs written by Robin McAuley and Michael Schenker, except where noted.HOW timely that, on the weekend that Juddmonte sponsors the Irish Oaks, their stallions should feature so prominently in this column.Mann would officially join the band for MSG's next album, replacing Perry. American guitarist Mitch Perry (aka Mitch Brownstein from the band The Kydz) had originally played in bass virtuoso Billy Sheehan's band, Talas (and had later joined the revamped Australian/American version of the band Heaven), while bassist Rocky Newton and guest keyboardist/rhythm guitarist Steve Mann were British and had previously been members of the band Lionheart. McAuley hails from Ireland originally, while Schenker and drummer Bodo Schopf are both from Germany.

It was the first collaboration between Michael Schenker and Robin McAuley (ex- Grand Prix and Far Corporation), resulting in Schenker's first top 100 US hit with the song 'Gimme Your Love.'Īt this point, the band featured an eclectic mix of musicians in terms of nationalities. Perfect Timing is the debut album recorded by the McAuley Schenker Group.

'Follow the Night' / 'Don't Stop Me Now'.

'Gimme Your Love' / 'Rock 'Til You're Crazy'.

Perfect timing group