dandy man
Fine for Dandy Aisling Crowe meets Joe Foley to chat about his stallion Dandy Man, the best value stallion at stud in Europe, and to introduce new Ballyhane Stud sire Soldier’s Call
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Joe Foley: had to turn away mares for Dandy Man in 2019 and is anticipating a busy spring again
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NE OF THE MOST INTERESTING, and revealing, statistics from this year’s Weatherby’s Return of Mares was the popularity of Ballyhane Stud’s Dandy Man. The 16-year-old was the fifth busiest Flat stallion in Britain and Ireland, covering 215 mares, with only Sioux Nation, Kingman, Australia and Zoffany busier than the son of Mozart. That increased level of demand for Dandy Man was partly driven by the success of his two-year-old daughters La Pelosa and Lady Kaya in 2018 with the former winning the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes becoming her sire’s second Group 1 winner. Meanwhile, Lady Kaya showed herself to be a filly of the highest class with her second place in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes for the Lavery family. “He gets more and more popular every year, we stood him at €12,500 last year and it could have been considerably more given the level of demand for him,” reveals Joe Foley,
