first-season sires
Under starter’s orders Stallion managers give us the low-down on their sires with first sale yearlings this autumn
first-season sires First-season sire results: Arqana August 2017 (€) Stallion Anodin Australia Charm Spirit Kingman No Nay Never Olympic Glory Ruler Of The World Sea The Moon Toronado War Command
Nos sold
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Top price
2015 fee
1 - 150,000 €7,500 8 129,000 200,000 €50,000 5 192,000 500,000 £25,000 9 274,000 750,000 £55,000 7 168,000 480,000 €20,000 9 70,000 170,000 €15,000 2 85,000 125,000 €15,000 1 - 60,000 £15,000 5 105,000 160,000 £15,000 4 67,000 135,000 £15,000
The precocious Bungle Inthejungle (right) on the way to winning the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes from Morawij
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first-season sires BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE
Exceed And Excel - Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) Rathasker Stud 2017: £5,000, 2016: £5,000 2015: £5,000
ES QUE LOVE
Clodovil - Es Que (Inchinor) Rathasker Stud 2017: £5,000, 2016: £5,000 2015: £5,000
GREGORIAN
Clodovil - Three Days In May (Cadeaux Genereux) National Stud 2017: £4,500, 2016: £4,500 2015: £4,500 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales – what are they like as individuals?
Bungle Inthejungle: are mostly strong, good-boned, short-coupled sprinter types and look to be early-season runners. Es Que Love: are very fluid movers with great temperaments and look mid-season types. Gregorian: are all bay or grey, lengthy and elegant walkers and look to be mid-season runners.
Hover over this image with mouse to access video A son of Clodovil, the Group 2 Lennox Stakes winner Es Que Love is “full of quality with a great step”
Lot 58 at Doncaster. Es Que Love: we have ten, including a filly out of Onomatomania (Tattersalls Book
3, Lot 1710). She is a half-sister to Verve, a filly purchased by Hugo Palmer and Amanda Skiffington for €150,000 at Tattersalls
Bungle Inthejungle: looks to be getting strong, early sprinter types
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/or whom you’ve heard good reports about. Have you got many at home?
We always support our stallions so we have a great representation of each of the first-season sire’s stock. Bungle Inthejungle: we have 20 Bungle Inthejungle yearlings at home. One of the best is out of Fanditha and was catalouged at the GoffsUK Premier Sale (Lot 25). Our client Paddy Gleeson has a cracking Bungle Inthejungle colt, who is a halfbrother to one of Richard Fahey’s exciting two-year-olds Great Prospector who was placed in the Group 2 Superlative Stakes. He was catalogued as
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Ireland September Sale last year. We also have a colt out of Ajig Dancer, a three-parts brother in blood to Kickboxer (Clodovil). He was catalogued at the GoffsUK Premier Sale (Lot 380). Gregorian: we have 12 yearlings at home by Gregorian. One of them is a three-parts sister to Sorella Bella (Clodovil), a champion two-year-old filly in Italy. She is a nice, strong and correct early type and goes to Tattersalls Book 2 (Lot 1020).
How many mares did they see in their first seasons and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
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Bungle Inthejungle saw 120 mares this year and was used by likes of Stratford Place, Yeomanstown Stud, Cooneen Stud and the McEnerys. Es Que Love had 70 mares, supported by Con Marnane, Derek Veitch and Dermot Cantillon, while Gregorian covered 120 with mares sent from Bearstone Stud, Mickley
first-season sires Bungle Inthejungles are mostly strong, good-boned, short-coupled sprinter types and look to be early-season runners
an excellent family of Dominant and We Are. Gregorian: we also bred Gregorian – and loved him as a yearling. He was a kind and good-looking horse, and as a racehorse he mixed it with the best from 6f to a mile. He won the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes, the Group 3 Diomed Stakes, the Group 3 Criterion Stakes and he was also Group 1-placed
in the July Cup, the St. James’s Palace Stakes, the Queen Anne Stakes and the Prix Jean Prat.
What’s been the highlight of your year so far?
Zhui Feng winning the Royal Hunt Cup at Royal Ascot – it’s the Olympics of the horseracing world and we were thrilled to have bred a winner at the 2017 meeting. Madeline Burns
Gregorians are all bay or grey, lengthy and elegant walkers and look to be mid-season runners
Gregorian: bred by Rathasker and is under the farm’s banner but stands at the National Stud, Newmarket
Stud, Whatton Manor Stud, Clarendon Stud and Brook Stud.
Are there particular types of mares that suit best?
Bungle Inthejungle: mares with extravagant walks who need bone and power. Es Que Love: he’s full of quality with a great step so if you have a mare needing these features he is a perfect match. Gregorian: he is a strong, Danehill type so if your mare lacks strength but has quality, then he is the horse for her.
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him?
Bungle Inthejungle: he is all about speed and precocity – he reminds us a lot of Mujadil. He was a high-class sprinting two-year-old winning the Molecomb and the Cornwallis Stakes. He is by Exceed and Excel, a champion sire of speed, and he has a fantastic pedigree top, that of Crime Of Passion. Es Que Love: we bred him so we knew him well! He won his 5f maiden in the May of his two-year-old year by 6l and progressed to split Slade Power and Lethal Force in the Sandy Lane Stakes and to win the Group 2 Lennox Stakes beating Garswood and Toormore. He was an incredibly tough and sound racehorse and is from
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first-season sires
Hover over this image with mouse to Charm Spirit: in three years has divided his time between Britain (Tweenhills) and France (Haras de Bonneval), and is due to be in France for 2018
CHARM SPIRIT
lnvincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Haras de Bonneval / Tweenhills 2017: £20,000, 2016: €27,000 2015: £25,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales - what are they like as individuals?
Charm Spirit’s first yearlings recently went through the sales at Arqana and the six that were presented were high quality horses who very much looked like him. The ones I have seen are racy individuals who bear resemblance with both Invincible Spirit and Montjeu. There were well received overall and the average selling price of €192,000 ranked Charm Spirit second amongst freshman sires. This represents good return on investment for breeders who have used him as it is six times his covering fee. The Haras du Cadran presented a half-brother to Qemah, who was a striking individual. Angus Gold bought him for €500,000 for Shadwell and other
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buyers included Ross Doyle, Gérard Larrieu, Marc-Antoine Berghgracht etc.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred, have you got many at home?
We have two yearlings and four foals by Charm Spirit at the Aga Khan Studs, including a half-sister to Zarkava and a halfbrother to dual Group 1 winner Vazirabad. We are very pleased with them, again they are really stamped by their sire with more strength, they are quite racy and Charm Spirit will have brought speed. I also think his damsire Montjeu brings a lot of scope, class and presence.
How many mares did he see in his first seasons and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date? How many yearlings are catalogued this year and where are they due to sell? Charm Spirit covered 138 mares in his first season at Tweenhills Stud, 125 the following season at Haras de Bonneval and 100 mares this year.
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Approximately half of the breeders who have used him are commercial breeders and the other half are owner-breeders. The alternate location between England and France has had the benefit of making him directly accessible to the whole of Europe. His foals averaged £52,000 (€67,500) last year and, interestingly, he was leading first-crop sire at the 2016 foal sales by average of sires with more than 10 foals sold at Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana. Charm Spirit will be well represented at the upcoming yearling sales at Goffs and Tattersalls. Amongst them will be some very well-bred yearlings including a sister to Al Wukair consigned by Ballylinch Stud (Lot 602), and a son of a sister to Sobetsu consigned by Jamie Railton at Tattersalls Book 2 (Lot 1302). We expect that the quality of these horses will maintain his good results.
Are there particular types of mares that suit best?
He is a stallion who is quite easy to breed to as we would not feel
the necessity to send a certain type of mare to him: based on the yearlings and foals we have seen, we can say that he stamps them well himself. He tends to get a good-bodied horse with quality, good balance and movement and he has put good bone onto his stock.
What did you like about him when you decided to stand him in France?
Charm Spirit was a good racehorse: he won three consecutive Group 1s over a mile at three against tough opposition and he had shown precocity, winning at two and placing in the Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère. He showed a great attitude, toughness and will to win in all his races. His pedigree is quite interesting as well as he is a son of Invincible Spirit, who is proven as a sire of sires, out of a Montjeu mare. The combination of these factors makes him an interesting stallion for us to use him and so far I think it has been a good decision to offer him to French breeders.
Georges Rimaud
first-season sires COACH HOUSE
Oasis Dream - Lesson In Humility (Mujadil) Bucklands Farm & Stud 2017: £3,000, 2016: £3,000 2015: £3,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales – what are they like as individuals?
I’m really pleased with the Coach House yearlings I have seen and worked with so far this year: they are strong, well-put together with great temperaments.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/or whom you’ve heard good reports about. Have you got many at home?
I’ve heard good reports from a number of breeders who are delighted with how their yearlings are maturing and I have three here at the farm that have grown so well over the summer. A couple of well-bred yearlings head to the sales, including a colt out of Ella Rosie, who is a halfsister to Group 1 winner Euro Charline, who goes to Tattersalls Book 3 (Lot 1601). There is also an impressivelooking filly – a three-parts sister to Group 1 Diamond Jubilee runner-up Tasleet – out of Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux) catalogued at Goffs Orby
season and has a strong syndicate of shareholders behind him well known for breeding winners including Whitsbury Manor Stud, Nelson’s Farm, Catridge Farm Stud and Trickledown Stud. He has been supported by some of the shrewdest judges in the business including Peter Molony, Mr and Mrs Knipe from Cobhall Court Stud and Hellwood Stud to name a few.
What was his foal average last year and how did they look? What pleased you about his foal sales?
His foals averaged £14,000. We were particularly pleased that four made over the £30,000 mark.
Numerically, what have his book sizes been like and are there particular types of mares that suit best? He has been well supported through his first three seasons at stud. He covered 73 mares in his second season and 55 this year;
I’ve heard good reports from a number of breeders who are delighted with how their yearlings are maturing and I have three here at the farm that have grown so well over the summer the support from breeders has been pleasing. With three good books of mares under his belt he has an outstanding chance with his first runners next year. He covered a wide range of types and I think it’s too early
to peg him to suiting one in particular type of mare, but what he offers breeders is a correct, strong stamp of a horse with a very good head, lovely fluid movement and trainable attitude.
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him?
He’s all speed in pedigree and performance. He can’t fail but produce precocious horses; we think his stock might particularly suit the breeze-up boys.
What’s been the highlight of your year so far?
To survive another breeding season has to be up there! I think the highlights are still to come at the sales this autumn with our first Coach House yearlings, but also with Hellvelyn progeny having had another great season on the track – we should see that translate into good sales results. Roisin Close
Coach House: he has a three-parts sister to Diamond Jubilee (G1) runner-up Tasleet at the Orby Sale (Lot 335)
How many are catalogued this year and where are they due to sell?
Five went to Goffs Premier Sale, six to the Goffs Silver Sale. We have a really nice selection heading to the sales in Ireland and we will see plenty of them in Books 2 and 3 at Tattersalls.
How many mares did he see in his first season and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
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first-season sires GALE FORCE TEN
Oasis Dream - Ronaldsay (Kirkwall) Irish National Stud 2017: €5,000, 2016: €5,000 2015: €5,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales – what are they like as individuals?
Being a sale-topping Donny yearling himself, he naturally had plenty to offer his mares with a view to producing sales yearlings, and thankfully that has come through. They are sharp-looking, well-built and racy horses.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/or whom you’ve heard good reports about. Have you got many at home?
We have some smart yearlings by him on the farm and its always difficult to pick a particular well-bred horse, especially as he was one of the busiest first-season sires in 2015. Kevin Prendergast bred a nice colt out of Sapphire Spray, which went to Tally-Ho as a foal. He looked a ready runner and is a half-brother to a handful of two-year-old winners. His colt out of the Group 2 filly Rosa Grace is also smart, he went to the Premier Sale (Lot 251).
the people one would like and expect to see using a precocious, impeccably bred and saletopping horse. We sent ten of our own mares and to name a few others that have used him since Kevin Prendergast, Paddy Twomey, his great breeder the late Bob McCreerey, Peter and Ross Doyle sent five mares to him, Dermot Farrington, Eddie O’Leary, Dwan Bros, Rick Barnes, Pier House Stud, our good friend and late colleague Jonathan Fitzpatrick, the Phelan Bros, Rossenarra Stud.
What was his foal average last year and how did they look? What pleased you about his foal sales?
His average was just under €15,ooo and for the most part we were pleased; they looked quite like him – sharp, intelligent and athletic, but one always felt his yearlings will do best, as he did himself.
Numerically, what have his book sizes been like and are there particular types of mares that suit best?
Generally horses cover about 400 mares prior to having their first two-year-old runners; GFT will be no different.
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him?
He was easy to purchase as a stallion, he ticked all the boxes: he was bred by the late great Bob McCreerey of Stowell Hill, is an impeccably bred son of Oasis Dream out of a stakeswinning two-year-old, was a sale-topping yearling and is from the immediate family of champion two-year-old filly Bianca Nera. Add to that he was a Group 1 tw0-year-old and a Royal Ascot winner of the Jersey Stakes and you have the perfect package for a young stallion.
What’s been the highlight of your year so far?
Our highlight of the year so far has been across different aspects of the business. It has been very satisfying to watch Barney Roy win the Group 1 St James’s Palace and Greenham Stakes as we consigned and reared him. As usual, Invinicible Spirit continues his production of Group 1 horses unabated – Inns Of Court will surely shortly join the list of top level winners after his Marois second. The quality of Free Eagle’s first foals has been really extraordinary. As ever, we welcome visitors from across the world to INS and, of course, we had a Royal visit from the Duchess of Cornwall in June, which was a real honour both for the farm and the country.
Gale Force Ten, a son of Oasis Dream, has been supported by some of the biggest names in Irish bloodstock
How many are catalogued this year and where do they sell?
They will sell at all the usual sales, Book 1, 2, 3 of Tattersalls; Fairyhouse has 16 catalogued, then there is the Orby and Sportsman’s at Goffs. In all, we would expect in the region of 80 to go through the the sale rings this autumn.
How many mares did he see in his first season and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
He covered 175 mares in his first season and was supported by all
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first-season sires HEERAAT
Dark Angel - Thawrah (Green Desert) Mickley Stud 2017: £4,000, 2016: £4,000 2015: £4,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales – what are they like as individuals?
Heeraat is consistently producing naturally good movers with calm, easy going temperaments and maturity beyond their months.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/or whom you’ve heard good reports about. Have you got many at home?
Our good mare, the Listed winner and Group-placed Radio Gaga, had a gorgeous filly who will be retained. We have a striking colt out of a Galileo mare Ardbrae Tara – he will be going to the Goffs Orby Sale (Lot 311) – and an earlylooking colt out of the Lily Agnes winner, All Fur Coat. He went to GoffsUK Premier Sale (Lot 384).
How many are catalogued this year and where are they due to sell?
There were 14 in Doncaster, six at Fairyhouse and plenty in Tattersalls Book 3: they are sure to whet the appetite.
How many mares did he see in his first season and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
Heeraat covered 94 mares in his first season and, on the strength of the foals seen at last autumn’s sales, saw 115 mares this year. Well-respected breeders who have been canny enough to use him include Mick Channon, David Botterill, Robert Percival, Liam Norris and David Spence, while many highly regarded pinhooking judges have been impressed and have bought stock.
Heeraat: is out of a Green Desert half-sister to the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes winner Malhub
What was his foal average last year and how did they look? What pleased you about his foal sales?
His foals sold very solidly and fetched up to 38,000gns bought by a number of shrewd judges such as Gay O’Callaghan and Paul McCartan. They were well received at all sales and reports of their progress has not diminished. We are looking forward to see how they have matured at the yearling stage.
Numerically, what have his book sizes been like and are there particular types of mares that suit best?
His book sizes wouldn’t be even close to the commercial studs in England and Ireland, but I would like to think that the majority of his mares that he has covered,
belong to breeders who respect speed and value for money and who aren’t interested in the snobbery of it all! He has a lot of quality being out of a Green Desert mare and can really improve on a plain mare.
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him?
Our good friend Kate Whitehouse, who worked at Shadwell for many years, always spoke highly of Heeraat and my former boss and hero Liam Cashman bought him as a foal. He was the highest price foal and yearling by Dark Angel in those years and he didn’t disappoint when he went into training winning his maiden by 9l. He kept his form right through until he was four. His former trainer William
Haggas is still very fond of him, and always makes a point to come and spend five minutes with him at the February stallion parade at Newmarket. He is an exceptionally well mannered and a kind horse to deal with.
What’s been the highlight of your year so far?
Mickley Stud in conjunction with Lady Lonsdale bred the exciting two-year-old Havana Grey. Trained by Karl Burke, he has run six times and won four. He has won two Listed races, the Group 3 Molecombe Stakes and finished second in the Group 1 Prix Morny. He is a very exciting horse to have been involved with. Richard Kent
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first-season sires Kingman: was the top-rated European three-year-old miler of his year, and has “the ideal CV for a stallion prospect”
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Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) Juddmonte Farms 2017: £55,000, 2016: £55,000 2015: £55,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales – what are they like as individuals?
The reviews of the Kingman progeny have been very positive. He is a pure breeding bay sire and their predominant attribute appears to be quality. They are attractive, athletic and racy types. We are very happy with the reception of the first Kingman yearlings sold at public auction. He has returned very healthy sales figures and judging by the successful buyers the stallion clearly has great international appeal. The €750,000 given at Arqana for the grey daughter of Ysoldina was especially satisfying and we are delighted for Haras de Montaigu. Their team do a great job at producing top horses and have been justly rewarded for their efforts. Juddmonte was delighted
to be able to play a small part in their sales success.
and sellers alike so the sales companies will be keen to provide whatever is in high demand.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/or whom you’ve heard good reports about. Have you got many at home?
How many mares did he see in his first season and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
Juddmonte has supported the stallion strongly with some their choicest mares. It was noted quite early on that Kingman was going to feature strongly among a short list of the best yearlings from the current Juddmonte yearling crop. Equally reassuring is the fact that some of the shrewdest judges in the business have spoken very favourably about the stock they have bred or have seen by Kingman.
How many are catalogued this year and where are they due to sell?
As expected Kingman will be well represented at all the major European yearling sales. Kingman has the kind of profile that will ensure plenty of attention from both buyers
Kingman was essentially fully booked before he had even arrived to Banstead Manor Stud, such was the demand. He covered 143 mares in his first season at stud of which more than 80 per cent of those mares were black-type winners or producers. The list of noteworthy breeders who supported the stallion is far too long to mention here, but needless to say it includes the most successful breeders in Europe.
What was his foal average last year and how did they look? What pleased you about his foal sales? You must have been pleased with his Arqana yearling results? His foal average was 167,456gns (€239,127) for nine foals offered. It was a very healthy return on his stud fee of £55,000.
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Numerically, what have his book sizes been like? In year one he covered 143 mares, year two 137 mares, and in year three 163 mares.
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him?
If you could write the ideal CV for a stallion prospect, it would read like Kingman’s. A great-looking individual, an unbeaten two-year-old, a Classic-winning miler with an electric turn of foot, by a sire of sires, out of a Classic winner and from the family of a leading sire. He is extremely fertile and stamping his stock. Kingman genuinely has it all.
What’s been the highlight of your year so far?
I was thrilled to see the demand for Kingman’s services continue on an upward curve. It was the infamous third season, tricky for any stallion, but he covered more mares than he did in either of his first two seasons at stud. And Kingman’s reputation is gathering momentum abroad, too, with great interest from Japanese breeders, while the Australian and New Zealand breeders are supporting him southern hemisphere time in greater numbers than ever before.
Shane Horan
first-season sires MUKHADRAM
Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country) Shadwell Stud 2017: £7,000, 2016: £7,000 2015: £7,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales – what are they like as individuals?
By large they are well grown, and forward individuals. They are correct with plenty of bone and are good walkers.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/ or whom you’ve heard good reports about. Have you got many at home?
The Hoh Chi Min yearling, who sold as a foal in December for 35,000gns, is a particularly good individual – strong through the quarters, correct and well balanced. Since his sale the current owners have expressed their delight with him and he was at the GoffsUK Premier Sale (Lot 75), which we feel demonstrates what a precocious, forward type he is. Another exciting prospect is the half-sister to this season’s Group 2 Railway Stakes winner Beckford. General feedback from breeders suggests they are precocious individuals and stereotypical two-year-old types. This can only be deemed as a positive when you consider today’s commercially driven market.
How many are catalogued this year and where are they due to sell?
To date there are about 45 yearlings set to sell and they were and are catalogued at Arqana, Goffs and Tattersalls.
How many mares did he see in his first season and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
In his first season he covered 120 mares and was hugely popular with commercial breeders due to both his attractive price and impressive race record.
What was his foal average last year and how did they look? What pleased you about his foal sales? His foal average last year was 28,000gns with the highest priced at 120,000gns, which we were extremely happy with considering his fee of £7,000. We were pleased to see the foals of his first crop well represented at the sales with a high clearance rate demonstrating the desirability of them as individuals.
Numerically, what have his book sizes been like and are there particular types of mares that suit best?
His book has averaged 100 mares over the last three years. Having seen a considerable number of his yearlings, we have been impressed by his stock from both sprinting and middle-distance type mares. At this early stage it would appear he is a versatile stallion and we are very excited to see what his first two-year-olds can do in 2018.
durable Group 1 winner. His pedigree gave another incentive as he was appealing to breeders as a son of Shamardal, who is now standing privately, and with the success of Shamardal’s son Lope De Vega at stud.
What’s been the highlight of your year so far?
On the racing side, we have enjoyed success with Battaash. He broke the track record at Sandown when he won the Coral Charge and then he backed that up with a scintillating success in the Group 2 King George Stakes at Goodwood. Tasleet has also established himself as a high-class sprinter with a stunning victory in the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes and a valiant second in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes. A couple of exciting twoyear-olds are also beginning to emerge, including the Group 3 Prix de Cabourg winner Tantheem (Teofilo), and Tabdeed (Havana Gold). He looked a horse to follow when breaking his maiden at Leicester in August. However, the most exciting thing of all this year has been the arrival of Muhaarar’s first foals. We have seen the vast majority now and have been hugely impressed. Richard Lancaster Mukhadram: “tough and durable”
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him? Deciding to stand him was a multifactorial choice although relatively easy given his performance as an incredibly tough and
Mukhadram: son image of Shamardal Hover over the this with winning the Coral-Eclipse Stakes
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first-season sires SEA THE MOON
Sea The Stars - Sanwa (Monsun) Lanwades Stud 2017: £15,000, 2016: £15,000 2015: £15,000 Yearlings by first-crop stallions always receive special attention at the sales - what are they like as individuals?
Sea The Moon’s yearlings seem to be quite like him in that they are strong, correct, good walkers with a solid temperament and often with few white markings. Like himself they are reminiscent of his sire Sea The Stars in outlook.
Tell us about some that are particularly well-bred and/or whom you’ve heard good reports about? In general, the quality of mares
he covered has been satisfactory. Amongst the sale-yearlings we note the following three. The bay colt by Sea The Moon out of Mouriyana (consigned by Tinnakill House) selling at the Goffs Orby Sale (Lot 83). There is a chesnut filly out of the Group 1 winner Majestic Roi (consigned by Houghton Bloodstock) selling at Tattersalls Book 1 (Lot 80), and our own grey colt out of the multiple Group 1 winner Albanova. She is consigned by Staffordstown and is also selling at Tattersalls Book 1 (Lot 319).
How many are catalogued this year and where are they due to sell? There are 17 at BBAG (Baden Baden) and one sold at the Arqana August Sale for €60,000. There are a further five in
the Goffs Orby Sale, five in Tattersalls Book 1 and 10 in Tattersalls Book 2.
How many mares did he see in his first season and tell us a bit about the clients who have used him to date?
He covered 132 mares in his first year and these were mares from both commercial breeders as well as owner-breeders from UK, Ireland, France and Germany.
What was his foal average last year and how did they look. What pleased you about his foal sales?
Sea The Moon’s foal average last year was over £44,000 (€53,000) with 17 sold in Ireland, UK and Germany. They looked correct and well, and were well received at the sales.
We have also had many positive reports, both from breeders and, indeed the auctioneers, who have inspected them pre-sales entries this year. There are many enthusiastic and positive reports back from various industry players. This contributed to having the stallion covering over 100 mares again in 2017, his third and usually “difficult” season at stud.
Numerically, what have his book sizes been like and are there particular types of mares that suit best?
He has been booked full in each of his three seasons at stud. He obviously suits a lot of mares, both with his very correct and strong conformation and also being the first son of Sea The Stars at stud in Britain. His strong German female family, with the great Monsun as his damsire, makes him a very positive asset for the international breeding industry.
What did you like about him when you bought/decided to stand him?
His astonishingly brilliant 11l win in the Deutsches Derby (G1) made him favourite for that year’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Unfortunately, an injury prevented him running, but his extraordinary Classic win in Hamburg made an indelible impression on all who witnessed it. Being an unbeaten two-yearold and the first son of Sea The Stars to retire to stud are other factors that combine to make Sea The Moon a very hot prospect. Kirsten Rausing Sea The Moon is by Sea The Stars and is from a Classic German family. His dam Sanwa is an unraced sister to Deutsches Derby winners Samum and Schiaperelli, and also to the Preis der Diana winner Salve Regina
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Toronado
European first-season sires 2017 Stallion
Sire
Dam
Dam sire
2015 Fee
Stud
Alhebayeb
Dark Angel
Miss Indigo
Indian Ridge
€5,000
Tara Stud
Albaasil
Dansili
Wrong Key
Key Of Luck
£1,750
Moor End Stud (2015)
Anodin
Anabaa
Born Gold
Blushing Groom
€7,500
Haras du Quesnay
Australia
Galileo
Ouija Board
Cape Cross
€50,000
Coolmore Stud
Battle Of Marengo
Galileo
Anna Karenina
Green Desert
€6,000
Ballyhane Stud
Bungle Inthejungle
Exceed And Excel
Licence To Thrill
Wolfhound
€5,000
Rathasker Stud
Burwaaz
Exceed And Excel
Nidhaal
Observatory
£2,500
Hedgeholme Stud
Charm Spirit
Invincible Spirit
L’Enjoleuse
Montjeu
£25,000
Tweenhils/Aga Khan
Coach House
Oasis Dream
Lesson In Humility
Mujadil
£3,000
Bucklands Farm & Stud
Dunaden
Nicobar
La Marlia
Kaldounevees
£3,000
Overbury Stud
Es Que Love
Clodovil
Es Que
Inchinor
€5,000
Rathasker Stud
Gale Force Ten
Oasis Dream
Ronaldsay
Kirkwall
€5,000
Irish National Stud
Garswood
Dutch Art
Penchant
Kyllachy
£7,000
Cheveley Park Stud
Heeraat
Dark Angel
Thawrah
Green Desert
Kingman
Invincible Spirit
Zenda
Zamindar
Kingsbarns
Galileo
Beltisaal
Belmez
€6,000
Coolmore Stud
Moohaajim
Cape Cross
Thiella
Kingmambo
€5,000
Rathbarry Stud
Morpheus
Oasis Dream
Kind
Danehill
€6,000
Tally-Ho Stud
Mr Medici
Medicean
Way For Life
Platini
£1,500
Hedgeholme Stud
Mukhadram
Shamardal
Magic Tree
Timber Country
£7,000
Nunnery Stud
No Nay Never
Scat Daddy
Cat’s Eye Witness
Elusive Quality
€20,000
Coolmore Stud
Olympic Glory
Choisir
Acidanthera
Alzao
€15,000
Haras de Bouquetot
Ruler Of The World
Galileo
Love Me True
Kingmambo
€15,000
Coolmore Stud
Sea The Moon
Sea The Stars
Sanwa
Monsun
£15,000
Lanwades Stud
Slade Power
Dutch Art
Girl Power
Key Of Luck
€20,000
Kildangan Stud
Sommerabend
Shamardal
Sommernacht
Monsun
€3,500
Haras de Saint-Arnoult
Sun Central
Galileo
Bordighera
Alysheba
£2,000
Elusive Bloodstock
Toronado
High Chaparral
Wana Doo
Grand Slam
£15,000
National Stud (2015)
War Command
War Front
Wandering Star
Red Ransom
€15,000
Coolmore Stud
Xtension
Xaar
Great Joy
Grand Lodge
€5,000
Rathbarry Stud
£4,000
Mickley Stud
£55,000
Banstead Manor Stud
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