New NH sires at stud

We run through the stallions who have been retired to stud this spring to stand as jumping and dual-purpose stallions in Britain and Ireland

ARREST

Frankel – Nisriyna (Intkihab)

Boardsmill Stud, Private

The Group 3 winner and Classic-placed son of Frankel follows in the hoofprints of another Juddmonte-owned colt who went on to be a successful stallion for the Flood family at Boardsmill – Court Cave.

Unlike the son of Sadler’s Wells who became a Grade 1 sire, Arrest was not a homebred for the global bloodstock operation, rather he was bred by Mariann Klay and Des Leadon of Swordlestown Little Stud (see our Weatherbys Stallion Scene feature on page 30) and one of three Frankel colt foals who topped the 2020 Goffs November Foal Sale (held in December because of Covid) when selling to Juddmonte for €440,000.

Sent into training with the Gosdens, he was third on his two-year-old debut to another Juddmonte runner Nostrum in a Sandown maiden but put that experience to good use on his next start at the track when winning a mile maiden.

There followed a novice win at Ffos Las before a narrow defeat to Dubai Mile in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

Success in the Group 3 Chester Vase on his three-year-old bow, coupled with the presence of Frankie Dettori in the saddle for what was billed as the Italian star’s final ride in the Derby, pushed Arrest into favouritism for the Epsom Classic.

However, unsuitably fast ground dashed his hopes behind Auguste Rodin and it took him two starts to return to winning ways, which he did in the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes.

Arrest finished second in Group 1 company for the second time when beaten by Continuous in the St Leger.

Arrest ran four times as a four-year-old and was runner-up on three occasions – in the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes, the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes and the Grand Prix de Deauville.

Out of the unraced Nisriyna, he is a half-brother to the Group 3 Centenary Vase winner Dinozzo, who was also placed in Group 1 company on Hong Kong, and to the Listed Rous Stakes third Spring Loaded.

Their three-year-old Wootton Bassett half-brother Detain who his first two starts last year for the Gosdens and Juddmonte, who bought him for €340,000 as a foal at Goffs, and he holds an entry in this year’s 2,000 Guineas.

Nisriyna is an Intikhab half-sister to the Group 3 Prix de Flore and La Coupe winner Narniyn, a daughter of Dubawi who was placed in both the Nassau Stakes and Grand Prix de Saint Cloud. They also have an Intense Focus half-sister, Temerity, who is a Listed winner in India.

Second dam Narmina is also unraced, but is an Alhaarth half-sister to the Princess Royal Stakes winner Narwala, who is the dam of Group 2 winner Affidavit and Listed

winners Tea Garden, Altamura and Nalanai.

Altamura is the ancestress of Aynthia and A Soldier’s Life, while her unraced half-sister Sawara is the dam of the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham winner and Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches second Maiden Tower.

ELDAR ELDAROV

Dubawi – All At Sea (Sea The Stars)

Chapel Stud, £5,000

A beautifully-bred Classic and Group 1 winner, Eldar Eldarov is an exciting stallion prospect for Chapel Stud.

The son of Dubawi was bred by Kirsten Rausing from her outstanding Al family –his dam is a daughter of Albanova and a half-sister to the dam of Alpinista – and the colt was picked up for £110,000 by Mags O’Toole for Norman Williamson at the Goffs Orby Sale of 2020 in Doncaster.

Williamson transformed the Dubawi colt into a £480,000 Arqana Breeze-Up horse, again at Doncaster, where Oliver St Lawrence bought the two-year-old on behalf of KHK Racing.

Trained by Roger Varian, Eldar Eldarov ran just once at two, in a back-end maiden at Nottingham, which he won by 5l.

Given time, he made his seasonal reappearance in late May, winning at Newcastle over 1m2f and then was successful at Royal Ascot in the 1m6f Group 2 Queen’s Vase.

His next start came in the 1m4f Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris in which he was fourth to Onesto before gaining his top-level spurs with his victory in the St Leger. He ended that season down the field in the British Champions’ Cup.

As a four-year-old, he took the runner-up spot in the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup before contesting the Gold Cup (G1) and Goodwood Cup (G1), in which he was fourth.

Eldar Eldarov’s final start at four yielded his second Group 1 success, this time in the Irish St Leger over the era’s dominant stayer Kyprios.

A top level Cup campaign beckoned for Eldar Eldarov as a five-year-old, but he sustained a serious neck injury in the stalls at Meydan, showing remarkable tenacity and bravery to recover from the life-threatening damage.

As mentioned his pedigree is one of the best in the book. His dam All At Sea is a triple Listed winner by Sea The Stars and has also produced the Group 3 Coongy Cup winner and Group 3 Gallinule Stakes third Kingswood (Roaring Lion), and the Invincible Spirit filly A La Voile, who was third in the Listed Rothesay Stakes.

All At Sea is a three-parts sister to the Sea The Moon colt Alignak, winner of Chester’s Listed Stand Cup and to Albamara, a dual Listed-placed daughter of Galileo.

She is also a half-sister to Algometer by Archipenko, winner of the Group 3 Newbury Arc Trial and the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes, and the Listed winner Alwilda, who is the dam of Alpinista and the Listed winner Alpenblume.

Second dam Albanova won three Group 1 contests in Germany and is an Alzao fullsister to the dual Group 1 Champion Stakes winner Alborada, who was also successful in the Nassau Stakes and the Pretty Polly Stakes when both were Group 2 contests.

Third dam Alouette won the Listed Oyster Stakes and was third in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes and is a Darshaan full-sister to Jude, dam of Group 1 winners Yesterday and Quarter Moon, who in turn foaled Group 1 winner Diamondsandrubies.

It is also the family of Group 1 winners Aussie Rules and Coronet.

LUXEMBOURG

Camelot – Attire (Danehill Dancer)

The Beeches Stud, €7,000

A Group 1 winner in every season he raced, Luxembourg is a representative of the Montjeu sire line that has produced leading NH sires including Walk In The Park who is on course to retain his crown this season as the champion NH sire.

Bred by Ben Sangster, the Camelot colt was sold for 150,000gns at Book 1 by The Castlebridge Consignment to MV Magnier and sent into training at Ballydoyle.

Luxembourg made a winning debut in a Killarney maiden in July of his juvenile season and then in the Group 2 Beresford Stakes.

He went on to make it three wins from three runs with victory in the Group 1 Futurity Trophy, a race previously won by his sire.

His subsequent career exploits obscure the fact that he was quick enough to be third to Coroebus and Native Trail in the 2,000 Guineas when making his seasonal reappearance on the Rowley Mile.

An interrupted preparation meant he had to sit out the Derby and an injury-hit summer saw him off until August when he won the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes.

He put in a career highlight performance on his next start when defeating the Group 1 winners Onesto, Vadeni and Mishriff in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) and was seventh in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, his first attempt over the longer trip.

At four, he won the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, was runner-up to Mostahdaf in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1) and to his stable companion Auguste Rodin in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1).

Luxembourg was also fourth behind Hukum, Westover and King Of Steel in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) at Ascot.

Another career highlight came in defeat in the Hong Kong Cup where he narrowly failed to defeat the brilliant Romantic Warrior on home turf at Sha Tin in the Hong Kong Cup (G1).

Sent on his travels as a five-year-old, Luxembourg extended his record of winning at the highest level in every season when successful in the Coronation Cup.

He retires to stud as the winner of seven of his 20 starts, four times at Group 1 level, having been in the placings at the highest level five times.

Luxembourg is a half-brother to the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes winner Leo De Fury by Australia and to the Listed and Group 3-placed Sense Of Style, whose Camelot filly was bought by Amo Racing for 2,900,000gns as part of their spending spree at Book 1 last October.

His full-brother, Hiawatha, made €1,200,000 to MV Magnier at the 2021 Goffs Orby Sale and he went on to finish runner-up in the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes as a two-year-old.

Their dam Attire is a Danehill Dancer full-sister to Group 3 and Royal Ascot winner Forgotten Voice and a half-sister to the Group 3 Prix de Flore winner Australie, dam of the Listed winners Hawke and Mireille.

He hails from a top-class Wildenstein pedigree: his second dam Asnieres is a winning Spend A Buck half-sister to the champion and Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Arcangues and to the Group 3 winner and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches third Agathe, the dam of the champion, Prix de Diane, Prix Vermeille and Prix Ganay heroine Aquarelliste, the Grade 1 Clement L Hirsch and the Grade 1 Charles Whittington Memorial Handicap winner Artiste Royal and Australian Listed winner Annenkov, all by Danehill.