NH Young Stallion Fact Pack Stallions standing in Britain and Ireland
Of benefit to all Weatherbys Stallion Scene is in France at Haras de Cercy
As Leo Powell discovers, long-standing friends and Irish-based connections all played a major part in The Mourne Rambler’s Champion Bumper victory
SIXMILEBRIDGE THE JUKEBOX MAN
TALK THE TALK
Britainʼs leading sire of two-year-olds, 2025.
£7,500 Oct 1, SLF
CATURRA
Exciting! First yearlings were so impressive.
£5,000 Oct 1, SLF
FRONTIERSMAN
Dubawi sire power, and now a G2 sire himself.
£2,000 Oct 1, SLF
GOLDEN HORN
Proper elite G1 sire for both codes.
£10,000 Oct 1, SLF
JACK HOBBS
Up-and-coming force over jumps.
£4,000 Oct 1, SLF
SCHIAPARELLI
Gets brave and wonderful steeplechasers.
£2,000 Oct 1, SLF
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It has been a fantastic spring for stallions at Haras de Cercy with Cheltenham Festival winners for Cokoriko and Chanducoq, writes Adrien Cugnasse
The Weatherbys Champion Bumper victory for The Mourne Rambler saw success for long-standing friends and connections
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Amy Bennett enjoyed the Cheltenham Festival, which saw 20 individual winning stallions headed up by Jukebox Jury and Westerner with three victories apiece
No fewer than 28 races, all representing a day to remember for all connections – how do we even start to sift the stories?
Well let’s start with the top-level stuff. All the “championship” races went the way of worthy winners, not least Gaelic Warrior (Maxios) who put in a performance for the ages to triumph in the Cheltenham Gold Cup (G1).
Bred by the Niarchos family and sired by their homebred stallion Maxios, who stands for €6,000 at Castlehyde Stud, he is a winner out of the very top drawer – and as an eight-year-old, we will hopefully have many more years to enjoy him. He is also a rare Germanbred winner of jump racing’s Blue Riband, following the victory of Don Cossack in 2016.
At last year’s Festival no stallion sired more than one winner, whereas this year’s featured a number of sires responsible for more than one winner.
It is no great surprise that Frenchbased stallions were once again very well represented in the winners’ enclosure and perhaps equally unsurprising that only one British-based sire got his name on the board.
In another observation brought to you by the Ministry for the Bleeding Obvious, the Sadler’s Wells line continues to flourish as a source of Festival successes, with no fewer than 12 winners hailing from that line. Montjeu’s sons continue to form a particularly fruitful branch of that particular tree, with the late sire’s sons siring six winners between them.
Veteran sires shine
At this year’s Festival, a pair of veterans
of the stallion ranks were among those to fire home multiple winners.
Well Chosen and Great Pretender are both now 27 years old, but both were represented at Prestbury Park by outstanding winners who promise much for the future.
Well Chosen’s path from the racecourse to a position at stud was not a given.
The son of Sadler’s Wells is out of the Kris mare Hawajiss, who won the 1994 Nassau Stakes (then a Group 2 race) and the Musidora Stakes (G3) and was placed in both the Epsom and Irish Oaks for Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum.
Her son’s only victory came in Lingfield maiden later in his threeyear-old season and he never raced in black-type company.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps given that profile, his stud career in Ireland began with sports horses, before he arrived at Kedrah House Stud for the 2012 season. Slowly but surely, his racecourse results have flourished ever since.
Old Park Star got the ball rolling for his sire in the meeting’s opening contest, staying on well up the hill to land the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (G1) in the colours of Gordon and Su Hall.
Now unbeaten in four hurdles outings, he was placed in a trio of bumpers last season.
The six-year-old was bred by Matthew Fogarty out of the Norwich mare Norwich Star (who was covered by Kedrah House’s Rich History last year), making him a true Kedrah House product on both sides of the pedigree.
He was purchased for €50,000 as a foal at Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale 2020 by Norman Wiliamson’s Oak Tree Farm as earlier that year his fullbrother Chosen Mate had won the Grade 3 Grand Annual.
In 2023, the three-year-old Old Park Star gave Williamson a profit when then bought by Tom Malone for Paul Nicholls for €120,000 at the Goffs Arkle Sale.
The Mourne Rambler took his sire’s Grade 1 tally for the week to two when scoring by nearly 3l in the Weatherbys
The second vintage sire to hit the board with a pair of winners was Great Pretender, who is a whole 13 days younger than Well Chosen
Champion Bumper on Day 2.
The five-year-old has now won twice in bumper company, having also finished runner-up in a Portrush pointto-point in October (see page 28).
The second vintage sire to hit the board with a pair of winners was Great
Pretender, who is a whole 13 days younger than Well Chosen.
Another from the Sadler’s Wells line, he is a son of King’s Theatre and has been a permanent resident at Haras de la Hetraie since 2015.
It is easy to forget that he actually spent a season at Yorton Farm Stud in 2014, as every other stud season has been spent in France.
Victory for his daughter Lossiemouth in the Champion Hurdle (G1) was vindication of her awesome talent –and a fourth consecutive success at the Cheltenham Festival into the bargain.
She had been kept to racing against her own sex for the last two years when winning the Close Brothers’ Mares Hurdle (G1), but trainer Willie Mullins allowed the Susannah Ricci-owned mare to take on open company in the Champion Hurdle and the result was a six-and-a-half-length trouncing of the field with the six-year-old mare
Brighterdaysahead (Kapgarde) following her home up the Cheltenham hill.
It is now hard to envision a world where Lossiemouth could be led out of a sale ring unsold, but bidding stalled on the mare at €14,000 at the Arqana Autumn Sale when she was a foal in 2020.
Bred by Elevage des Vallons and Ian Kellit, she is out of the Gentlewave mare Mariner’s Light, herself a winning halfsister to the former globetrotting, Group 1-winning fan favourite Lord Glitters (Whipper).
A day later, Great Pretender celebrated his second winner when Jingko Blue made almost all in the BetMGM Cup Handicap Hurdle (G3).
A Grade 2 winner as a novice over fences in January 2025, Jingko Blue has stuck to hurdles this season, a move that paid Festival dividends.
A graduate of the sales rings at both Tattersalls Ireland and Tattersalls Cheltenham, he was bred by Jessica and Jeremy Rainer and Francois Jereczek out of the hurdles winner Vibraye (Saint Des Saints).
The overall title for most winners sired at the 2026 Festival was a two-tie between Jukebox Jury and Westerner, who were both responsible for three winners.
Westerner recorded his hattricks in handicap races however, so we will turn our attention primarily to Jukebox Jury.
Long a leading light of the NH stallion ranks, the death of the Burgage Stud resident last year is a true loss – he was only 19 and sadly had to be put down following complications after colic surgery.
His two top-level winners at this year’s Festival began with Il Etait Temps, who produced a powerhouse performance to take the Queen Mother Champion Chase (G1) by 10l. The likeable grey is unbeaten in his last six completed starts – discounting his fall in the Clarence House Chase (G1) when behind and looking beaten by Jonbon) –including his defeat of the subsequent Cheltenham Gold Cup victor Gaelic Warrior at last year’s Punchestown Festival.
The eight-year-old was bred by Emmanuel Clayeux and Ecurie Couderc out of the Dom Alco mare Une Des Sources, and was born in the same year his sire took up stud duties at Burgage Stud, after starting his career in Germany.
The stallion’s second Grade 1 winner of the week hails from his Irish crops, with Johnny’s Jury foaled in 2020.
The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
a notable victory for trainer Jamie Snowden.
Bred by Frank McNulty, the sixyear-old is closely related to the Grade 2-placed winner Danny Kirwan (Scorpion), and is also a half-brother to the 2021 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner Appreciate It (Jeremy).
Their dam is the Saint Des Saints mare Sainte Baronne, who was placed in three bumper starts for McNulty, and is a half-sister to Bingo Bell (Fijar Tango), a Grade 3 chase winner at Auteuil.
Rounding out the posthumous hattrick for Jukebox Jury was Holloway Queen, who scored in the National Hunt Challenge Cup on the opening day of the meeting.
Another six-year-old, the mare was fittingly bred by Victor Connolly, who stood Jukebox Jury, out of an unraced mare by another former Burgage resident in Shantou. Twice a graduate of the Tattersalls Ireland sales ring,
Red-letter day for Kingston Hill
The opening race on Thursday’s card provided a red-letter day for Kingston Hill, who became the only British-based sire to get on the board thanks to the success of White Noise at 40/1 in the Ryanair Mares’ Novice Hurdle (G2).
Resident at the Dawson family’s Nunstainton Stud since the 2022 season, Kingston Hill commands a fee of £4,000 this year. White Noise had previously finished runner-up to her paternal half-sister Kingston Queen in the Jane Seymour Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (G2) at Warwick, only her second defeat in now six races under Rules.
Hailing from her sire’s Irishconceived crops, she was bred by John and Jimmy Lawler out of the unraced Yeats mare Sounds Poetic, herself a half-sister to the Listed-placed chaser In The Rought (Scorpion). A graduate of Goffs UK’s Spring Store Sale, White Noise is one of a hattrick of G2 winners for her sire.
Trained by Kim Bailey and Mat Nicholls, her victory under jockey Tom Bellamy has led to his emergence on the dating app Tinder and a social media viral broadvast after his mother Sue voiced her delight on ITV that this first Festival victory for her son might help him find a girlfriend.
Mares to the fore
Lossiemouth was not the only mare to beat the boys, with Kargese and Air Of Entitlement also striding home in front in mixed company.
Air Of Entitlement was an easy winner on the final race of the whole meeting, the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle, leading home her 23 rivals.
One of a trio of winners for the late, great Westerner – the others being Wilful, in the County Hurdle (G3) and Supremely West in the Pertemps Network Final (G3) – the winner was
recording her second Festival triumph after landing the mares’ novice hurdle in 2025.
A graduate of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale in 2022, she was bred by Mrs RH Lalor out of the Stowaway mare Carrigeen Karaka.
That mare showed little in her own racing career, but is a half-sister to the 2016 Irish Grand National winner Rogue Angel (Presenting).
Kargese put up an impressive performance to take the Arkle Challenge Trophy (G1), making almost every yard of the running and powering home by over 2l from Kopek Des Bordes (No Risk At All).
A dual Grade 1 winner over hurdles at four, she was bred by Thierry Cypres, who pulled off the magnificent feat of also breeding the third-placed Lulamba (Nirvana Du Berlais), who was sent off favourite.
A half-sister to a pair of hurdles winners and an AQPS winner, Kargese is
out of a winning AQPS mare in Rive Gauche (Shaamer), herself a half-sister to the dam of the Grade 1 winner Saint Are (Network), later runner-up in the Grand National.
Kargese is the leading performer to date by her 15-year-old Saint Des Saints sire Jeu St Eloi, whose fee this year is listed as “private” at Glenview Stud, where he has stood since 2024.
Clearly a valuable addition to the Irish stallion ranks, he previously stood at Haras de Cercy and is the sire of three Grade 2 winners and a Grade 3 winner.
Cokoriko’s family red-hot
Current Cercy resident Cokoriko, standing for €15,000 this season,
by winners and placed horses
celebrated success with Kitzbuhel, who made amends for unseating his rider at Sandown in January when staying on well to take the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase (G1) on Wednesday’s card.
Bred by another of the great Cypres family in Michele Juhen Cypres, the winner is out of Valgardena, a daughter of Dom Alco.
That sire also tasted broodmare sire
success via Il Etait Temps (see page 22).
Another Cercy stallion on target was Chanducoq, a half-brother to Cokoriko, who was only acquired by the stud last November, when Jacques Cypres went to €450,000 to secure him in the ring at the Arqana Autumn Sale for a syndicate.
Standing this year for €6,000, the sire was represented at Cheltenham by Apolon De Charnie, who landed the Triumph Hurdle (G1) at 50/1 from Maestro Conti.
Cokoriko and Chanducoq are not the only noteworthy stallions in their family – a third member of the tribe was also responsible for a Festival winner.
Choeur Du Nord shares his third dam, La Horse (White Label), with the pair, for whom La Horse is their fourth dam.
Choeur Du Nord, who stands for €8,500 at Haras de Ligneres, saw his Heart Wood skip clear in the Ryanair Chase (G1), having finished runner-up in the same contest last year.
The eight-year-old, bred by Murielle Guillerm, was purchased for just €10,000 at Tattersalls Ireland November Sale as a yearling and is a full-brother to Miss Wood, who is a Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed over hurdles in France.
His dam, Miss Nikita (High Chaparral) returned to Choeur Du Nord last year.
No National Hunt festival feels complete without a winner by Doctor Dino and the Haras du Mesnil resident duly obliged with two winners and three runners-up. He kicked off the meeting well with the Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase (G3) winner Madara on the opening day of the meeting, but Doctor Dino’s biggest winner of the week came when Dinoblue triumphed in the Mrs Paddy Power Mares’ Chase (G2).
It was the winner’s fifth trip to Prestbury Park in March, and she took her Festival tally to two victories, two seconds and an unplaced – an impressive haul for the nine-year-old, who is from the family of the Grand National runner-up Royal Auclair.
Homebred glory
Home By The Lee (Fame And Glory) saw off a talented field to land the Stayers’ Hurdle (G1) at 33/1, becoming one of the few homebred winners of the week.
Sean O’Driscoll bred the gelding out of the Presenting mare Going For Home, purchased at Goffs in June 2004 and winner of a point-to-point for O’Driscoll in October 2005.
She has since produced Home By The Lee’s full-sister Beautiful Citi, a triple bumper winner and Listed-placed over hurdles behind the great Honeysuckle. She is now dam of City Of Cork (Westerner), who was placed in a Navan bumper in February.
The only broodmares owned by O’Driscoll are mares from this family so it is a great performance by the breeder, who has run Home By The Lee five times at The Festival in search for success.
Honourable mentions
We must also include sires whose primary stud role lies with Flat performers.
Chief among them is Coolmore’s Camelot, one of a trio of sons of Montjeu to enjoy success at the Festival meeting.
Although his leading Classic hope Pierre Bonnard is Camelot’s chief talking horse as attention shifts back to the Flat, he was also responsible for a brace of winners at Cheltenham.
Saratoga got the ball rolling when staying on well to bag the McCoy Contractors Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (G3) on Day 1 of the meeting. The fouryear-old was a useful Flat performer last season before switching codes, and was recording his first victory over hurdles in the Cheltenham contest, after three placed efforts.
Bred by Lynch Bages and Camas Park Stud, the gelding is regally bred.
His dam Dialafara produced the winner of the same race in 2022 courtesy of Brazil (Galileo), while her top Flat offspring includes the Group 1 Irish Derby and St Leger victor Capri, now at
stud in Britain at Willow Wood Farm, the dual Group 2-winning stayer Tower Of London and the Group 3 winners Cypress Creek and Passion, all by Galileo.
Camelot was also responsible for the winner of the cross-country chase, Final Orders, successful over course and distance in December.
Bred by Hascombe and Valiant Studs, he is out the 7f winner Trapeze, a daughter of Pivotal from the storied Hascombe family of On The House.
Having made three trips through the sale ring at Tattersalls, Final Orders was purchased most recently in 2019 at the Autumn Horses in Training Sale for just 14,000gns from the draft of Simon Crisford for whom he was placed a couple of times in novice company.
The late Le Havre was responsible for the talented Wodhooh, who defeated Jade De Grugy (Doctor Dino) to triumph in the Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle (G1) and to give trainer Gordon Elliott his sole Festival winner in 2026 Purchased for 50,000gns from the
Tattersalls July Sale in 2023, she has a record of 10 victories from 11 starts – her only defeat coming at the hands of Lossiemouth in last year’s Aintree Hurdle (G1).
Galiway was another Flat-based sire to hit the mark when King Rasko Grey triumphed in the Turners Novices’ Hurdle (G1).
The six-year-old was bred in France by MM Stud out of Imaginary Move, a German-bred daughter of Wiener Walzer, who won over 1600m at Chantilly as a three-year-old.
She has a four-year-old colt by Nirvana Du Berlais, a three-year-old gelding by For Fun, and a yearling filly by Great Pretender.
Below: Wodhooh remained unbeaten this season in the Grade 1 Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle. She has only had one career defeat in 11 starts over hurdles when she finished second to Lossiemouth in last year’s Aintree Hurdle
The ability to sire a 4-y-o Gr.1 winner from his first crop
Tough and sound Gp.1 winner of 10 races from 2 to 7 years
Stands at 16.3. Exceptional looking horse
Sire of four horses with an Official Rating of 133+
Point-to-Pointers have sold up to £175,000, £120,000 etc 3-y-o’s sold up to €42,000 in 2025
2008
Sire of the exciting 4-y-o Convergent Gp. 2 winner in France, Gp. 3 winner in Ireland in 2025
Just beaten in German Derby (Gp.1). Rated 116
“I think he can make up into a Gp. 1 horse next season”
Standing at Burgage Stud
Standing at Burgage Stud
Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, R93 RK35
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HARAS DE CERCY IS UNIQUE.
The farm in central France is run as a not-for-profit organisation, an agricultural cooperative owned by 700 members who, by paying a three-year membership fee of €150, benefit from reduced stud fees.
So the farm’s Cokoriko, a leading jump sire in France and who topped the 2025 French NH sires’ table, stands at a nomination fee of €15,000 for non-members and yet is available
Adrien Cugnasse chats with Thomas Leffray of the French stallion co-operative Haras de Cercy, which enjoyed a fabulous Cheltenham Festival
at just €8,000 for members.
Cercy currently stands 10 stallions who cover between 800 and 1,000 mares per year, making it one of the most popular stud farms in France.
Cercy’s policy is to help breeders remain financially viable by offering stallions at deliberately accessible prices.
This advantage, combined with the fact that breeders in France benefit from generous breeders’ premiums, helps explain why they are willing and able to give a chance to a wider diversity of stallions than in Ireland or England.
As a racehorse, Cokoriko won a Listed
hurdle for four-year-olds at Auteuil, but never competed at Group level.
Nevertheless, breeders trusted his outstanding pedigree and he covered 128 mares in his first season in 2014 – for a French-based NH sire that is a considerable number.
The stallion very quickly proved himself to be a capable sire – from when his first three-year-olds hit the track it was clear that he was a going to be a stand out stallion.
He is now the sire of six Grade 1 winners, including Kitzbuhel, winner of the Grade 1 3m1f Brown Advisory
Novices’ Chase at last month’s Cheltenham Festival.
Thomas Leffray, head of nominations and commercial relations at Cercy, said: “Producing a Grade 1 winner at Cheltenham is such an important milestone in a stallion’s career.
Cokoriko is a stallion who shines through his consistency and, as every year, his book for this year was full well ahead of the breeding season.
“We limit him to 180 mares. What has changed now is that he is also receiving mares from abroad. Cokoriko produces tough horses and, surprisingly, for a horse who raced over jumps, he brings class and speed, for example, to AQPS mares.”
As an aside, it is worth remembering that Cokoriko produced a two-year-old black-type performer in his first crop!
A half-brother to Cokoriko and by the outstanding Voix Du Nord, Chanducoq’s best result on the track came when placed in a Listed race.
He was purchased for €450,000 at Arqana last November by Cercy on the strength of the promise shown by his first runners produced from the four years standing at Haras de la Barbotterie, where he retired to in 2019.
Just four months after his purchase, Chanducoq’s son Apolon De Charnie was the impressive winner of the Triumph Hurdle (G1).
“It’s exceptional to have been able to buy a stallion such as him, with such a pedigree,” says Leffray. “Two hours after his purchase at Arqana, the syndication was completed. And, to be honest, his book was full before Cheltenham.
“With a fee of €3,000 for members [€6,000 for others], breeders really have a chance to make it work economically.
“Chanducoq is a really consistent stallion, and I simply advise breeders to send mares with some size because he is not a big horse.
“His results are quite impressive, and what is amazing is that he lives in the stable where his sire Voix Du Nord
used to be, a stallion who contributed enormously to breeders in the region.”
At Cheltenham, the runner-up to Apolon De Charnie was Maestro Conti, also by a stallion standing at Haras de Cercy.
His sire Prince Gibraltar, a son of Rock Of Gibraltar and winner of the Grosser Preis von BadenBaden (G1) and the Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1), and also threetimes Group 1 placed, including when third in the Prix du JockeyClub, began his stud career in Normandy at Haras de Montaigu.
His owner,
the Belgian Jean-François Gribomont, decided to send him to Cercy where he knew the horse would have the best chance of covering a good number of mares.
“We hope that Maestro Conti wins his Grade 1 soon! ” laughs Leffray, adding:
“Hopefully it will be at Aintree.
“Statistically, his sire’s achievements are impressive – he has 16 per cent black-type performers to runners over jumps.
“And this year he is due to cover his biggest book of mares. He stands at an attractive fee and a large proportion of his progeny win and both these factors make him an attractive proposition for breeders.
“Monsieur Gribomont has always believed in his horse, and we thank
Joshua Tree is a good stallion... Every year, he produces black-type horses, individuals who last over time.
him for entrusting him to Cercy. He is a good stallion to impart some Flat class to NH mares bred for jumps.”
Leffray adds: “The economic climate is not easy – the co-operative belongs to the breeders and is there to support them, so Prince Gibraltar stands at just €2,500 for members.”
The sire of five graded race winners, including Irish Point, who won the Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (G1) at Aintree and the Leopardstown Christmas Hurdle (G1), is the 19-year-old stallion Joshua Tree, a son of Montjeu who arrived at Cercy in July 2024.
The stallion had been standing at Haras du Grand Courgeon since 2015, but also stood in Ireland at Kilbarry Lodge Stud for 2019 and 2020.
“Joshua Tree is a good stallion,” says Leffray. “Every year, he produces black-type horses, individuals who last over time. He is a top stallion who brings in some of the Montjeu blood, a line we have rarely had in the region.
“As jump racing in France is becoming faster and faster, he is a sire who fits well with the evolution of the sport.”
Joshua Tree, a winner of the Canadian International (G1), the Royal Lodge Stakes (G2) and the Prix Kergorlay (G2), and also three-time placed at Group and Grade 1 level, stands at €5,000 for members.
A top-class horse with multiple
international Group 1 wins, the 16-yearold Ivanhowe also arrived at Cercy in 2020 for the second stage of his stallion career.
In 2025, his son It’s Win O’Clock won the Prix Renaud du Vivier (G1) 4yo Hurdle at Auteuil, and Ivanhowe stands at €4,000 for members and €8,000 for outside breeders.
“Ivanhowe produced his first Grade 1 winner from his first crop conceived at Cercy,” enthuses Leffray.
“He is getting some excellent results in France and we hope that continues.
“Before arriving here, he had never had large crops. Most of his progeny have stayed in France and some have been sold abroad on form. What we can hope for is that he gets a top horse abroad so that he gains recognition across Europe. I don’t think that should take long, and he will have his biggest book of mares this year.”
Karaktar is only a 14-year-old, but he is already the sire of eight graded race winners over jumps, including Il Est Français, who was so impressive when winning the 2023 renewal of the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase (G1). Karaktar’s fee for 2026 is €6,000 for members
(€12,000 for others).
“Karaktar had a dip because his smaller crops were on the track, and last year only 39 three and four-year-olds ran in France,” explains the stud manager.
“But I have no doubt that he is returning to the forefront, because the numbers speak for him. Over jumps, he is getting 17 per cent black-type winners and performers to runners, and 46 per cent winners to runners, which is quite exceptional [www.nhstallions. co.uk].
“With the large crops coming through, we will see some good horses by him again, and we are hearing good reports about young stock – headliner at present is his four-year-old Mariachi, who is the winner of his two career starts so far. He is a great hope for French jump racing.”
Zaskar did not race, but he is a Sea The Stars half-brother to the great stallion Zarak.
He retired directly to Cercy in 2022, and surprised observers by producing the juvenile winner Roi Trezy in his first crop.
Out of the Lope De Vega mare
Royal Variety and bred by Eric Feurtet, Roi Trezy also won in February as a three-year-old.
Zaskar’s fee is only €2,500 for members (€4,000 for others).
Leffray says: “Yes, it’s very positive, especially as he adds physical presence to his progeny. That is the magic of the
Cercy cooperative – here, you can give a chance to a horse who did not run.
“Zaskar has always covered a decent number of mares given his top pedigree, and this year will be important to him with his first three-year-olds on the track. We have good feedback from pre-trainers and trainers, who seem to like them. He has a good chance.
“Each breeder who has bought a share is entitled to two coverings, and that means he has nearly 60 guaranteed coverings this year.”
But there is one stallion with an alternative profile who is starting to make a name for himself as a jumps sire. He is already the sire of seven black-type performers over jumps, and is also getting results in the sale ring.
The 12-year-old Tunis (Estejo) was a Grade 1 placed and Grade 2 winner over jumps, but, unusually, he was born in Poland, where he also raced as a two-year-old.
At last year’s Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale, a three-year-old store by Tunis was sold for €260,000 to Tom Malone and Gavin Cromwell, while two Irish-produced winning four-year-old point-to-pointers both sold for over
Tunis has covered a good pool of mares from the start, and the results have followed on the racecourse. He is now very popular, especially last year with strong sales results.
£220,000, bought by Gordon Elliott at the Goffs UK Aintree Sale and Lucinda Russell / Paul McIvor at the Tattersalls Cheltenham November Sale
“Tunis has covered a good pool of mares from the start, and the results have followed on the racecourse. He is now very popular, especially since last year’s strong sales results, and his book has grown again. I think his stock will age well: they seem sound and tough, like he was.”
Tunis stands at €5,000 for members (€10,000 for others).
The Lanwades stallion Sea The Moon boasts a good set of statistics from the runners he has had over jumps, and particularly courtesy of his black-type performers to runners ratio.
His son Pretty Tiger, who won the Prix Eugene Adam (G2) and the Prix Exbury (G3), and was a runner-up in the Prix Ganay (G1) and third in the Prix d’Ispahan (G1), joined the Cercy roster in 2024.
“He has a profile to bring some sharpness to the local broodmare band, which is very jump-oriented,” outlines Leffray. “For each new recruit, there is always a discussion with the main breeders who run the cooperative. We are constantly discussing the choice of stallions, and bringing in Sea The Moon blood was an obvious move.
“This male line tends to produce horses who can handle soft ground, which aligns with what we want to breed. Pretty Tiger was a good horse,
one of the best three-year-olds of his generation in Germany, and we believe in him. His first progeny are yearlings.” His fee is €2,500 for members (€4,000 for others).
Goliath Du Berlais has become the new stallion star of French jump racing and already stands at €20,000. His own-brother David Du Berlais won a Listed race at Auteuil and stands at Cercy for a fraction of that price.
From one of the best French pedigrees, he is by the sire of sires Saint Des Saints.
“David Du Berlais was popular from the start, and his first crop are yearlings of 2026. This year, I think he will cover his biggest book of mares so far and he tends to produce good-looking foals with size. We hear about him everywhere. He is a great addition to the stud. He has covered good mares, and now we just have to wait for the results on the racecourse!”
David Du Berlais stands at €2,500 for members (€4,000 for others).
Debbie Burt, and courtesy of Tattersalls
As Leo Powell discovers, friends and long-standing connections, some of the best in the Irish NH bloodstock business, all played a significant part in The Mourne Rambler’s superb victory in the Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper
VICTORY for The Mourne Rambler in the Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper, run in honour of the late Sir Johnny Weatherby, provided the gelding’s trainer Noel Meade with a welcome and well-deserved return to the winners’ enclosure at the Cheltenham Festival.
The Co Meath-based trainer took his score to seven at the Festival with this win, and the success was special on a number of fronts.
Meade’s winning run at Prestbury Park started belatedly with Sausalito Bay 26 years ago in the Grade 1 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, a race he won again nine years after with Go Native.
In between, Nicanor scored in the Royal & SunAlliance Novices’ Hurdle (now the Turners), and 2014 saw Very Wood triumph in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.
All of these were Grade 1 victories.
Road To Respect’s win in the Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate Handicap Chase is Meade’s sole Festival winner over fences, and Jeff Kidder took the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle five years ago to complete the trainer’s record over the smaller obstacles.
Now he’s added the prestigious bumper to his roll of honour, and did so with some aplomb.
Engaging leading Flat jockeys to ride in the bumper was fashionable for a period of time, but, like the craze for parachute pants, it was short-lived.
Meade was happy this year to buck the trend, despite attempts to dissuade him, and he engaged the
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services of one of the world’s best in Colin Keane.
Fresh from his engagement to Kerri Lyons, Keane realised a dream when he partnered The Mourne Rambler to victory.
A remarkable aspect of this success story has been the constant presence of certain people in the tale. The many interconnections make it all the more fascinating, some dating back more than 60 years, and one gets the impression that this big race win for the owner, trainer, breeder and others was written in the stars. Central to the success, however, are two men, Meade and The Mourne Rambler’s breeder, Christopher McKeever.
Holding a licence for 55 years, and
inauspicious start to her racing career, finishing a tailed-off last in a bumper, and pulling up when her saddle slipped on her hurdling debut.
Things didn’t get much better on her first outing from Meade’s Tu Va Stables (named in honour of the trainer’s first winner) – going very well, Lobinstown Girl fell two out.
Connections persevered, and Meade managed to get the filly placed a couple of times, running second over hurdles at Punchestown on what was her penultimate start.
“We had just got her to the point of being a winner, and she was injured. She was a useful enough filly,” Meade recalls.
After that, there was a bit of a gap until Meade took over the training of Lobinstown Girl’s first foal, and thus began a new and much more successful chapter in the story.
Worth a place at stud?
You might wonder whether, when the decision was taken to retire Lobinstown Girl to stud, if she was actually worth getting covered?
Her pedigree page was smart enough, though she was from a weak link, so to speak.
Lobinstown Girl’s grandam Fayafi was bred by and raced for Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, and finished in the placings on the Flat.
She joined Arthur Moore, and won two hurdle races at four before landing a maiden back on the Flat at Tramore. Fayafi was acquired by Theresa Abbey and she bred a couple of winners, the best of which was the 2007 Punchestown Festival-winning chaser Alexander Taipan, trained by Willie Mullins for hotelier Noel O’Callaghan. Fayafi, a daughter of Top Ville, had three graded hurdle-winning siblings, a couple of them bred at Robin and Scarlett Knipe’s Cobhall Court Stud after they had purchased their winning dam Muznah.
Sheikh Hamdan had bred the Seagram Top Novices’ Hurdle (now Grade 1) winner Jazilah, for whom he ran as a three-year-old and was born in 1988, while Alderbrook’s son Sh Boom and Anzum (Ardross) were products of the Knipe’s mating plans and were born in 1989 and 1991
Sh Boom became a Grade 2 winner like Jazilah, but it was Anzum who was the family star.
He did the stayers’ hurdle double when winning at Cheltenham and then at Punchestown for David Nicholson, and after The Duke’s retirement, trainer Alan King got a third Grade 1 win out of him at Ascot in his first year training. As strong as this part of the family became, Lobinstown Girl was one of just two foals, and the only one named, out of Fayafi’s daughter, the sevenyear-old point-to-point winner Q Bar, who managed a handful of places on the track.
This was the weak link in the family.
Q Bar was trained by Dick Lalor, and he and his wife Ann bred Lobinstown Girl, whom they sold for €3,000 at the Goffs Land Rover Sale.
More recently, the couple celebrated the massive achievement of breeding the 2021 Gold Cup winner Minella Indo, and this year’s Cheltenham winner, Air Of Entitlement.
Thankfully, Lobinstown Girl got her chance at stud, and she has more than made the best of it.
A Well Chosen stallion
Lobinstown Girl could probably find her own way from Meath to Tipperary, given the number of times she has travelled from breeder Christopher McKeever’s home place to Tom Meagher’s Kedrah House Stud, which is based outside Cahir.
With the exception of two years, she has visited sires at Kedrah every year from 2011 to 2024, and she certainly clicked with Well Chosen.
That exceptionally well-bred son of Sadler’s Wells, who was a minor winner for Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum and is now in his veteran stages, has had an uphill battle to get recognition, but nothing speaks louder than success.
Well Chosen was never afforded the books of mares needed to challenge for sires’ championships, but he proved his ability time and again to get winners.
What he lacked, perhaps, was a star runner, though stalwarts such as Jury Duty, Chosen Mate, Midnight Run and Carefully Selected kept him in the news.
Ironically, it is since he turned 20 that Well Chosen has arguably sired his best runners.
The Mourne Rambler was born in the
A well-deserved, winning drink and ear rub: jockey Colin Keane, more usually plying his trade on the Flat, reported after the race that he thinks the gelding has the pace for black-type on the level
same year as the current good bumper mare Moonverrin, while a year before them the Grade 1 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner Old Park Star was foaled. Well Chosen is standing his 23rd season, and how proud Tom Meagher is of his stallion.
Meagher said: “He is in fantastic form. We don’t discuss age, and we are looking forward to a limited covering season with him this season. Breeders ringing to use him say that there is a change from me pleading ‘will you, will you, will you?!’”
The stallion man goes on to explain the start of his connection with McKeever.
“He rang me, explained he had bought out his partners in the mare, and he hadn’t much left for a stallion – what would I charge him for Well Chosen?
“He is very knowledgeable about horses, a brother of Colin McKeever, and, as we would say, he has pedigree.
“We have been very good friends from that initial phone conversation and he is a great man to call for advice. I don’t know why the mare has clicked so well with Well Chosen, but we know now that her sire Luso became a good broodmare sire.
“The magic, if you like, was that her
Our stallions always have to carry a super dam’s line – it is all about pedigree, pedigree, pedigree, that’s key for me...
progeny ended up with the right trainer.
“Our stallions always have to carry a super dam’s line – it is all about pedigree, pedigree, pedigree, that’s key for me, and we have it now with our young sire Rich History.
“We took all sorts of mares to Well Chosen, and I will tell you something about him – he has as many good hunters in Tipperary as he has Cheltenham horses!
“As a foal, The Mourne Rambler was a smasher. We had him for about two months and he was a lovely athletic foal. I now have a full-sister Iamastartoo – the bridesmaid – and she has some
lovely offspring, including a very exciting daughter of Berkshire, a close relation to Colcannon.
“What would I say about Christopher? He is an exemplary, knowledgeable horseman, and a gentleman to his fingertips. He is great fun and great craic to be with.”
Christopher McKeever: the breeder
Noel Meade’s neighbour McKeever is someone the trainer has known since his youth, the pair riding ponies together.
This lifetime friendship adds an ingredient to the success story of The Mourne Rambler that is extra special for both men.
Meade explains: “I am delighted for Christopher, and what a lovely thing that The Mourne Rambler, having been all around the country, should end up back in his home village with me.
“I trained all of the progeny of Lobinstown Girl who have raced, and they have all been talented. A couple of doors up from The Mourne Rambler is his four-year-old full-brother Islria, named after his owner Albert Dravins’ children, and I also have a granddaughter of Lobinstown Girl, who I like called Birdie Conway.”
McKeever was involved in the syndicate that raced Lobinstown Girl, and in a story with more twists and turns than a whodunnit, he ended up buying her after her racing career was over for €350.
He was toying with the question of what stallion to use when his brother Colin McKeever told him about this very smart son of Well Chosen, whom he trained to be the sire’s first fouryear-old point-to-point winner, and was with Henrietta Knight. All the omens were good, and Christopher made that first call to Meagher.
Lobinstown Girl’s first foal, She’s A Star (Well Chosen), raced for Philip Meade – no relation to the trainer.
She won a bumper, a couple of times on the Flat and a few hurdle races, and was graded-placed over hurdles.
Meade recalls: “She was small, but she could run, and was very versatile.”
She’s A Star’s first foal is Colcannon, a son of former Kedrah House stallion Berkshire. He won a Grade 2 bumper and was placed at Punchestown last year in the Grade 1 Champion Bumper.”
The second foal for Lobinstown Girl was the cleverly-named Iamastartoo (Well Chosen).
She initially raced for her breeder, with Meade naturally, and after being placed on her debut in a bumper, sold to Jimmy Owens and Sean O’Driscoll, the owner and breeder of Home By The Lee, to remain in the yard.
Frustratingly, she failed to win, running second on six occasions and being in the first four 15 times.
She is now owned by Meagher and has had three foals by Kedrah stallions.
Meade bought Lobinstown Girl’s third foal for just €3,500, and was rewarded when, as a four-year-old, Sixshooter (Well Chosen) won at the first time of asking.
A deal was struck in the yard, the gelding transferred into the ownership of Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, and the gelding went on to win four more races.
“He was a good horse, and won his first start over fences, but was fatally injured next time out at the age of just six,” lamented Meade.
McKeever is one of these people in life who takes success and disappointment in equal measure, and is a man with no ego. He understands the business better than most, and has his feet firmly planted on the ground.
That said, the enormity of this success is not lost on him, and yet he pays tribute to the efforts of everyone else, suggesting his role is minimal. He had good news about Lobinstown Girl.
“She is 21 now, and although she slipped to Jet Away this year she is in
great order – I just took the rug off her the other day and she looks great
“She is going to Rich History. I have a couple by him, four in all, and they are smashers. I was going to retire her, but John Flood said if she is healthy and well, cover her, but only if the vet says she is okay.”
He adds: “I am only a small cog in a
“My mother was a racehorse trainer and we were into ponies and all that, hunting and more.
“John Burke [Gold Cup-winning jockey] grew up with us, among others, and we had some fun as youngsters.
“Lobinstown Girl was with two trainers before she went to Noel, initially just for a month to just see if there was any chance for her.
“Both her first two trainers would say she was mad, but you know, she was an honest mare, always trying her best. That day at Punchestown she ran her heart out.”
Having purchased the mare for €350, McKeever recollects calling up Meagher.
“Tom is a very persuasive type of man!” laughs the breeder. “I explained that the mare was not in great order having just come out of training, but he said to send her down.
“And that, as they say, is that. The first foal was She’s A Star, a little, small runt, and I remember bringing Noel up to see her, and the expression on his face...! But, when she walked, oh my goodness, she was a different mare altogether. She is in-foal to Poet’s Word.
“The real pleasure for me is that they are all here beside me, at home and in Noel’s. I can be in Noel’s yard in two minutes. There is another man involved in some of my young horses, Ciaran Murphy who is an absolute gentleman, and Brian O’Neill in Rockton Stud does my foaling and sales horses. I break my horses when they turn two.
“I think it’s important to surround yourself with good people. I am blessed with the people around me. I wouldn’t change one of them.”
Bloodstock agent Peter Nolan has a long family association with Noel Meade, and his late father had horses with the trainer in the past.
The two men have built a strong
and successful relationship. They have been involved in many winners, but they stole headlines all over the world when Caught U Looking, a filly they sourced as a yearling for €27,000, went on to become a Group winner, and sold as a three-year-old for a staggering 1,800,000gns.
However, The Mourne Rambler was not purchased by the duo, but rather a partnership between Nolan and Peter Molony of Rathmore Stud.
Nolan takes up the story.
“What attracted me first was that I know the family so well through Noel, and the gelding was just a lovely, racy individual. He wasn’t a big foal, but he was very athletic.
“Well Chosen was doing fine at the time, but it was the female side of the family I bought into more than anything. I purchased him with Peter Molony and we reared him in Wexford.
Point-to-point handler
Paddy Turley
It is an unbelievable family, and the one who needs to get all the kudos is Christopher
“Paddy Turley [Kingsfield Stables] bought him for €45,000. We thought he would have made a good bit more – I always slag Molony and tell him I should have sold him myself!
“It just happened that Paddy Turley bought him, and he and Phily [Philip] Polly have been best friends for years.
“I do the work for Phily now, and manage things for him with Noel.
“It is an unbelievable family, and the one who needs to get all the kudos is Christopher. He covers the mares with stallions he can afford and not the most popular ones.
“Cheltenham was great and this has given Noel a new lease of life with the jumpers!
“He is a great man to work with and I have learned so much from him.
“I think The Mourne Rambler has a massive future. What he did at Cheltenham, for a big baby, was incredible. He has an amazing temperament. The future is bright.”
Paddy Turley: the point-to-point
A rising force among the training ranks, and especially with his point-to-pointers, is Paddy Turley, who is based at Downpatrick Racecourse. Turley recounts the story of his successful acquisition of the young store horse
The Mourne Rambler for €45,000.
“I wouldn’t say I got a bargain!” he laughs. “He wasn’t over-big when I bought him but he was very good to move. He probably lacked an inch for the big lads to get involved.
“I didn’t know it at the time, but I gather now that he is typical of the family.
“He was a very simple horse to have. He was easy enough to get ready. Phily [Polly] bought his first horse off me, during Covid, Mig Des Taillons, and he won three times.
“He phoned me and said he would go halves with me if I bought something at the sales, but I said the horse would also have to be for sale.
“Someone bid on the horse after he was second for us [in a point-to-point at Portrush], but Phily thought it was in his best interest to buy me out, and he did.
“I was at the yearling sales in Newmarket when he ran in his point, and Deckie [Declan Lavery] called and couldn’t believe he was beaten, and on that day he was beaten by a better horse.
“He has surprised me – we knew he was a good horse, but to win a Champion Bumper on your second start is quite special. After all, we train them to jump and get three miles!
“What Noel has done with him is fantastic – I am not too sure how many trainers would have done what he has and is on top of his game.
“Phily was also attracted to the horse because Noel trained all the siblings. Phily, his family and friends have got so much from this. They are good people, they love racing, and Phily has done so much good locally that everyone is enjoying his success.”
Here is yet another amazing and longstanding connection in this tale, that of the Polly family and Noel Meade.
Philip Polly’s grandmother Rita, and her husband Willie, owned the 12-time
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winner Novello Allegro, one of a number of winners they enjoyed thanks to the training skills of Meade.
Rita Polly’s home place was in the middle of Downpatrick Racecourse, right beside where Paddy Turley lives and trains now.
Polly was away from racing for many years, building a successful business in Downpatrick, some 30 miles from the famed Mourne Mountains.
In 2020, about the time of Cheltenham, Polly asked Turley to buy
some racehorses, and in the six years since the owner has enjoyed success that he could not have imagined in such a short space of time.
He has had winners with a number of trainers, but it is the connection with Meade that has borne the sweetest fruit.
Pinkerton won the Galway Plate for him, Affordale Fury was runnerup three years ago in the Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle and at Christmas won Leopardstown’s Grade 1 Savills Chase.
Now The Mourne Rambler is a Cheltenham Festival winner.
Polly’s five black-type successes have all been achieved in a period of less than two years, and all with Meade.
Asked about his relationship with his trainer, Polly has said: “It is fate sometimes that you meet people in life, and the luck that Noel and I have had in a short period of time has been incredible.
“It is hard to believe at times. He means a lot to me.”
Featuring pedigree, performance and progeny results for young stallions standing in Britain and Ireland
Data from Weatherbys
YORTON FARM has been involved in two of the biggest stallion transfers from Flat to NH of the last couple of years. This year Cracksman, a European champion and the sire of the unbeaten world champion Ace Impact, has moved from Dalham Hall in Newmarket to Powys in Wales where he stands for a fee of £8,500.
He is reunited with another European champion and former Darley sire in Postponed, who is standing his third season at Yorton, and this year at £6,000.
Making the announcement of Crackman’s acquisition, David Futter remarked: “We are very grateful to Cracksman’s owner/breeder, Anthony Oppenheimer, and to Sam Bullard of Darley for enabling us to stand such an exciting stallion.
“He has been bought by well-known racehorse owner Dai Walters in a partnership with Yorton Stud.
“ We would also like to thank Richard
Venn who brokered the deal.”
Cracksman’s oldest crop, which included the Prix de l’Arc de Triumph (G1) and Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) victor Ace Impact, are six-year-olds of this year and Ace Impact is the best of six black-type winners from that crop, two of which earned their stripes in NH company.
They are Ndaawi, successful in the Galway Hurdle last summer for Gordon Elliott, and twice placed at the Cheltenham Festival. The 62,000gns purchase by the trainer and agent Aidan O’Ryan at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale, is a half-brother to Lava Flow, dam of European champion two-year-old and promising young sire Pinatubo.
The other black-type winner over hurdles from that crop is the Aga Khanbred Liari, who won a Listed juvenile fillies’ hurdle at Aintree and the Scottish Triumph Hurdle for Paul Nicholls.
Elliott also trains Open Secret and the second-crop son of Cracksman was runner-up in the Grade 3 Michael Purcell
Memorial Hurdle at Thurles this season. From Cracksman’s third crop is Michonne, who was second in the Listed Winning Fair Juvenile Hurdle at Naas in late February for Jessica Harrington. She is a half-sister to Yours Sincerely, a threeyear-old daughter of Cable Bay who was third in the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes at Del Mar last November. The pair were bred by Brightwalton Bloodstock.
The Futters are keen to emphasise that Cracksman will be a dual-purpose stallion and his services available to Flat and NH breeders.
And owner Dai Walters has made good his public promise of supporting his newly acquired stallion – the owner-breeder went to £400,000 for the debut-winning fouryear-old point-to-point mare Jezebel Eyes, a daughter of Motivator.
His NH foal sale average dropped from £29,457 in 2024 to £13,573 last year while he did not hve enough sell at the store sales in 2025 to create an average, the year previously it was £16,087.
Cracksman has 55 three-year-olds this year, 137 two-year-olds which is his largest crop so far and were bred on the initial positive impression of his first crop, and 81 yearlings registered.
Postponed has a couple of years head start on his new neighbour at Yorton, but the son of Dubawi still only began his stallion career in 2018 with his eldest runners now seven.
Over jumps they are headed by Familiar Dreams, a first-crop daughter of Postponed who was bred by Meon Valley Stud and snapped up for just 4,000gns by Anthony McCann.
Following her victory in a Grade 3 bumper at the 2024 Punchestown Festival, she was sold at Goffs Punchestown for €310,000 by the O’Ryan and Elliott axis and has won the Grade 3 Shannon Spray Mares’ Novice Hurdle.
Zestful, Listed-placed in a mares’ hurdle for Martin Keighley, is also from Postponed’s first crop.
His second contains two more mares who earned Grade 3 placings - in England Majestic Jameela and Movie Night in Italy -
And owner Dai Walters has made good his public promise of supporting his newly acquired stallion –the owner-breeder went to £400,000 for the debut-winning four-year-old point-to-point mare Jezebel Eyes, a daughter of Motivator
as well as Our Boy Wes, twice Listed-placed in America.
The Gredleys’ Ambiente Amigo was third in the Listed Juvenile Fillies’ Hurdle at Newbury.
Postponed’s final two crops conceived at Dalham Hall are small with just 15 threeyear-olds and 14 two-year-olds registered, but his numbers received a boost with the move to Yorton and there are 64 yearlings by him registered.
His average store price jumped in that period as well, going from £13,000 in 2024 to £23,500 last year while his first foals bred at Yorton averaged £7.438.
In Ireland, Shaman has moved from Yeomanstown Stud where the Classicplaced miler by Shamardal began his career to Longford House Stud. With his third crop only two this year, the beautifully-bred chestnut has not had many opportunities to shine.
His first crop of 106 now four-year-olds has produced 12 NH runners so far and three have won, including the fillies Love Sonnet, trained by Tim Vaughan, and Henry Oliver’s Africa Charm.
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
KYPRIOS
Galileo–Polished Gem (Danehill)
The Beeches Stud
€5,000
When the definitive history of Aidan O’Brien’s career comes to be written, Kyprios will feature heavily as the most prolific Group 1 winner trained by the master of Ballydoyle. The horse’s eight triumphs at the highest level will surely see him be considered by posterity as one of the modern great stayers.
In 21 starts over six seasons, the Moyglare and Coolmore co-owned
chestnut only twice finished outside the first two and that was in the Zetland Stakes (G3) at two and the following season’s Lingfield Derby Trial.
Only two of the those 21 runs came outside of Pattern contests and he retired in addition to his eight Group 1 wins, a Group 2 winner and three victories apiece at Group 3 and Listed level.
In both 2022 and 2024 he completed a Group 1 quadruple in the Ascot Gold Cup, the Goodwood Cup, the Irish St Leger and the Prix du Cadran when in 2022 he won by an that astonishing 20l.
Under Ryan Moore, Kyprios forged clear with 3f of the Cadran to run, but hung left inside the final furlong until he reached the stands rail on the ParisLongchamp course where he promptly straightened up and extended again.
His career, decorated though it is, could have been even more glittering but for a life-threatening infection he contracted in the capsule around his offfore fetlock joint which not only caused him to miss the majority of the 2023 season but also forced the horse to have to learn how to walk again.
Ultimately it was a recurrence of that ringbone lesion, noticed following his victory in the Group 3 Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown that May, which prompted connections to retire the champion with no risks to be taken considering the enormous odds Kyprios had overcome to survive his illness and return to the track.
Bred by Moyglare Stud, the son of the breed-shaping Galileo is a full-brother to the dual Group 1 Irish St Leger winner Search For A Song, whom he beat when winning the Listed Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan in 2022.
He is also a full-brother to Amma Grace, who won the Listed Trigo Stakes, and Falcon Eight, successful in the Group 3 Loughbrown Stakes at The Curragh.
Kyprios is also closely related to the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Free Eagle, who is by another Derbywinning son of Sadler’s Wells in High Chaparral.
His Medicean half-sister Sapphire won the British Champions Filles and Mares Stakes when it was a Group 2 and was runner-up in the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1).
She is the dam of the Listed Trigo Stakes winner and the Irish Oaks (G1) fourth Elizabeth Jane (Dubawi) and the Groupplaced fillies Kiss For A Jewel and Federica Sophia.
Custom Cut by Notnowcato was a triple Group 2 winner, while the Dark Angel gelding Valac has won at stakes level on the Flat and over jumps in Australia. Their Bahamian Bounty half-sister Amber Romance also won and is the dam of Italian Listed chase winner Moved by Iffraaj.
So prolific a black-type producer for Moyglare was Polished Gem with ten winners, eight of them successful at stakes
level, that there is room for just one dam on the page. However, the Danehill mare, who was fourth in the Group 3 Athasi Stakes hails from one of Moyglare’s greatest families.
Polished Gem is a full-sister to Dress To Thrill, winner of the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes and a half-sister to the Grade 1 Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle winner Archive Footage (Sadler’s Wells). Another half-sister, Trust In Luck by Nashwan, is the dam of Horris Hill Stakes (G3) third Aahaykid (Intikhab) and Small Sacrifice (Sadler’s Wells), dam of the Group 1 National Stakes winner Thunder Moon (Zoffany).
They are out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Trusted Partner, a daughter of Triple Crown victor Affirmed.
Trusted Partner is a full-sister to the Listed winner and the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes-placed Low Key Affair and Listed-placed Magical Cliché.
Their dam is the American champion Talking Picture (Speak John) who was purchased by Walter Haefner in 1978.
Kyprios is bred on the Galileo – Danehill cross that has produced champion sire Frankel, top-class stallion Teofilo and Galiway amongst others.
Camelot–Frequential (Dansili)
€7,500
Castlehyde Stud
A horse with head-turning looks, Los Angeles was bred by Lynch Bages and Longfield Stud and trained by Aidan O’Brien for the Coolmore partners and Westerberg.
He made his debut in September of his two-year-old year winning a Tipperary maiden (9f) before tackling the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud on just his second start when he defeated a field that included Illinois, who would go on to be placed at the highest level.
At three Los Angeles won the Group 3 Derby Trial at Leopardstown before finishing third to stable companion City Of Troy at Epsom, resuming winning ways in the Irish Derby (G1) before success in the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes.
Skipping the St Leger (G1), he then finished fourth in the Irish Champion Stakes behind Economics, Auguste Rodin and Shin Emperor.
Next up he was third to another of Camelot’s stars, Bluestocking, in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) and finished the season with a down-the-field run in the Champion Stakes (G1).
In 2025, he began the season by winning the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes and followed up with victory in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, the third Group 1 of his career. That was the final win for Los Angeles who failed to make the frame in five further starts.
Los Angeles is one of three runners, all by Camelot, out of Frequential, an unraced daughter of leading broodmare sire Dansili.
His older full-brother Hector De Maris won once as a two-year-old for O’Brien and was third behind the Group/Grade 1 heroine Tarnawa in the Group 3 Ballyroan Stakes.
Be Happy, who is a year-older than Los Angeles also ran for the CoolmoreBallydoyle axis and finished second in the Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial and third in the Group 3 Prix Penelope.
Los Angeles is one of three runners, all by Camelot, out of Frequential, an unraced daughter of leading broodmare sire Dansili
Frequential is a half-sister to Prix Messidor (G3) winner Impulsif (New Approach) and the Frankel pair – the Listed winner and the Group 3 third Hotheaded and Veil Of Shadows, who was second in the Pride Stakes (G3).
Their dam Violante was successful at four in France and is a Kingmambo full-sister to the Listed Virginia Stakes winner Reunited.
Violante is a half-sister to Anabaa Blue, successful in the Prix du Jockey-Club, and broodmare sire of 2023 unbeaten Arc hero and young sire Ace Impact (Cracksman) and his Group 1 winning half-brother Arrow Eagle (Gleneagles).
With both of those horses being by sons of Galileo, inbreeding to the family
would appear to work.
Her Nureyev half-sister Al Ishq is the dam of Prix Jacques le Marois and Prix Jean Prat winner Tamayuz (Nayef), who is the sire of Group 1 winners, including Precieuse, Blond Me and Mustashry.
Al Ishq’s daughter Thamarat by Anabaa is the grandam of Irish Derby winner Santiago (Authorized), who already stands under the Coolmore NH banner.
Thamarat is also the third dam of Facteur Cheval (Ribchester) who won the Dubai Turf (G1).
Muhawalah, a full-sister to Tamayauz, is the dam of Group 1 British Champions Fillies and Mares Turf winner Eshaada (Muhaarar)
Al Ishq’s dam is the Group 3 Prix de Flore winner Allez Les Trois, a Riverman half-sister to Arc heroine Urban Sea, dam of Group 1 winners and sires Galileo, Sea The Stars and Black Sam Bellamy, and to 2,000 Guineas winner and sire King’s Best (Kingmambo).
Los Angeles himself has two lines of Kingmambo, an influential broodmare sire, in his pedigree. Both Camelot’s dam Tarfah and Los Angeles’ second dam Violante are daughters of Kingmambo while Los Angeles is 4S x 3D to Danehill.
2020, Bay, 16.2h.h. by Frankel - Nisriyna
FIRST FOALS 2026
Multiple Stakes winner of 4 races at 2 and 3 over 8-13f
Gr.1 Classic runner up at 3 and Gr.1 placed at 2
Realised €440,000 as a foal
Covered 165 mares in 2025, his first season at Stud
First foals to date in 2026 getting great reviews
Multiple Gr.1 winner over 10-12 furlongs
First NH Crop winners in 2025/26 incl: OH MY WORD (LISTED winner), TAURUS BAY (3 wins & Gr.2 placed), POETISA (LISTED placed), TIKTOK CASEY (Gr.2 placed), THE IRISH AVATAR, etc.
3YO stores have realised €150,000, €120,000, €115,000, €100,000 etc.
First Boardsmill Crop 5YO’s in 2026
Sire of 3 winners from 4 runners from first crop of 9 foals incl. DEAR WEAVER (D .Satalia) 4 wins & €135,000 and SAINT JEANNAIS (N Twiston Davies) impressive bumper winner on debut
Also sire of RED RUBIO (C. Bowe) impressive 4YO Point to Point winner on debut
First Boardsmill 3YO stores in 2025 realised up to €80,000
First Boardsmill Crop 4YO’s in 2026
Contact: William or John Flood
BANGKOK
Australia-Tanaghum (Darshaan)
Chapel Stud
£3,000
Year to stud: 2022
The first son of Australia to retire to stud in Britain, Bangkok descends from the blue hen Fall Aspen and has an outstanding pedigree as well as all the necessary attributes required by a successful sire.
Bred by David and Diane Nagle at the world-renowned Barronstown Stud, Bangkok was the joint second-most
expensive yearling from the first crop of the dual Derby winner Australia making 500,000gns to Alastair Donald on behalf of King Power Racing at Tattersalls October Book 1.
Bangkok won his maiden at Doncaster over 1m2f on his first start at three, defeating subsequent Dante Stakes winner Telecaster. On his next start, his first at stakes level, he won the Group 3 Classic Trial at Sandown beating another subsequent Group 1 winner, this time Technician who was also bred by the
Nagles and would win the Prix Royal-Oak (G1).
Considered a live chance in the Derby, Bangkok did not appreciate Epsom and beat just Telecaster home. However, he showed his true colours on Ascot’s more forgiving track to finish second behind Japan in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes.
He was also a close second to Zaaki in the Group 3 Strensall Stakes at York and that horse would go on to become a multiple Group 1 winner in Australia.
Bangkok’s final start of his three-year-old season was in the Qatar Derby just prior to Christmas, in which he took second.
He started his four-year-old season by winning the Listed Winter Derby Trial at Lingfield and was third in the Group 3 Winter Derby itself. Back on Turf for the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes he was fifth behind Lord North and seventh in the Eclipse.
After a visit to the Middle East, he returned to Lingfield for a repeat of his Winter Derby Trial success before going on to finish fourth to Armory in the Group 2 Huxley Stakes at Chester and fourth to Sir Ron Priestley in the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes before gaining a deserved success in the Group 2 York Stakes and ended his career in the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes at Windsor.
In all, Bangkok won and placed in eight stakes races.
Bangkok has an outstanding pedigree and it is quite simply a stallion’s family; he is a half-brother to the Group 1 winner Matterhorn (Raven’s Pass), the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G2) runner-up The Foxes (Churchill), the Group 3 winner Tactic (Sadler’s Wells) and the Listed winner Yaazy (Teofilo).
He is also a half-brother to the Listed-placed Zahoo, dam of the Group 3 winner Convergence and to Mujarah, the dam of European champion miler Ribchester.
His dam Tanaghum was second in the Listed Harvest Stakes and is a Darshaan half-sister to the Group 2 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Najah. They are out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf (Nureyev).
Mehthaaf is a half-sister to the July Cup winner, champion sprinter and sire Elnadim, and to Only Seule who is the dam of the Group 1 winner Occupandiste, herself the dam of Group 1 winner Mondialiste and second dam of Group 1 winner and sire Intello.
Bangkok’s third dam Elle Seule won the Group 2 Prix d’Astarte and is a daughter of Exclusive Native and blue hen Fall Aspen, who is the second
Bangkok’s sire Australia had an excellent 2025, siring the Epsom and Irish Derby hero Lambourn whose Classic triumphs sandwiched Cercene’s victory in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, and their emergence increased Australia’s career Group 1 winners to seven
dam of Dubai Millennium.
Other stallions under the Grade 1-winning daughter of Pretense are Timber Country, Fort Wood, Harbour Watch and Charnwood Forest.
Bangkok’s sire Australia had an excellent 2025, siring the Epsom and Irish Derby hero Lambourn whose Classic triumphs sandwiched Cercene’s victory in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, and their emergence increased Australia’s career Group 1 winners to seven.
Bangkok’s first crop are three-yearolds this year, numbering 22 foals they averaged £4,472 at the sales in 2023 with a yearling sale average of £11,340 for five sold from six offered.
Seven of that debut crop have already run on the Flat with four individuals winning, and his colt Rising Empire now in Italy and bought with Italian Classic hopes.
Bangkok had 16 registered foals in his second crop, and his foal sale average more than doubled to £9,675 in 2024 but he had just ten foals in his third crop.
Galileo-Dialafara (Anabaa)
Willow Wood Farm in 2024
£2,500
Year to stud: 2020
A striking looker with the pedigree and race record to excite in equal terms, Capri’s oldest crop are only five-year-olds but he moved from Coolmore’s Grange Stud to Willow Wood Farm for the 2024 season.
The handsome grey is a dual Classic winner defeating Cracksman and Wings Of Eagles in the Irish Derby (G1) and Crystal Ocean and Stradivarius in the St Leger (G1).
He was also a classy juvenile, landing the Group 2 Beresford Stakes for Aidan O’Brien.
Bred by Lynch Bages and Camas Park Stud, Capri ended a juvenile season that included a Listed win and defeat of the Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling in a Galway maiden with a third place to Waldgeist and Best Solution in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud.
He remained in training at four and won the Group 3 Alleged Stakes over 1m2f at Naas on his seasonal reappearance. His best performance of the season in Group 1 company was his fourth place over the same trip in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes behind Cracksman and Crystal Ocean, and ahead of Group 1 winners Rhododendron and Verbal Dexterity.
At five, he took third in the Listed Saval Beg Stakes over 1m6f behind subsequent Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment and then filled the same position in the two mile Group 3 Loughbrown Stakes.
The 11-year-old is one of 12 stakes winners from 32 runners, including his full-siblings Cypress Creek, Passion and Tower Of London, bred on the successful Galileo-Anabaa cross. Another fullbrother, Brazil, won the Grade 3 Fred Winter at the Cheltenham Festival.
Europe’s champion three-year-old stayer of 2017 is a grandson of the Group 2 Prix de Malleret winner and the Group 1 Prix Vermeille second Diamilina, a daughter of the hugely
influential sire Linamix.
Capri’s first crop averaged €14,229 at the store sales with the top price of €44,000 achieved at the Goffs Arkle Sale where Hugh Mulryan bought the filly out of Grade 2-winning chaser Youcantcallherthat from Rathmore Stud.
There were two more €40,000 stores at Goffs last June by Capri: Tor Racing bought Brandonview Stud’s half-brother to Listed winner Chicago Time, while Grange Stables went to that figure for Tally-Ho Stud’s half-brother to Listed winner Belle Metal.
The average price attained by his
progeny at the store sales increased to €18,784 for his second crop.
From his first crop, he has had 30 runners and seven winners so far while his second crop has already produced a bumper winner from just four runners with Keep Twisting successful in a Punchestown bumper in February for Mark Fahey
Capri sired 109 foals in his first crop, 70 in his second, 40 in his third and he has 20 registered two-year-olds.
Capri has 38 yearlings registered from his first season standing at Willow Wood Farm.
Dubawi-Galatee (Galileo)
Shade Oak Stud
£2,500
Year to stud: 2018
The Royal Ascot winner Dartmouth, whose eldest foals are seven-year-olds of 2026, offers NH breeders access to the exciting Dubawi-Galileo cross that has produced reigning champion sire Night Of Thunder.
The Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes winner and King George third is one of three black-type winners so far out of Galatee, a member of Galileo’s first crop and winner
of the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes.
She has also foaled the Group 2 Grand Prix du Chantilly and Prix du Conseil winner Manatee (Montjeu), who stands at Whytemount Stud, and the Listedwinning Dubai Destination filly Gaterie, whose son Warren Point by Dubawi is a Group 3 winner.
Dartmouth’s full-sister Desert Breeze is the dam of 2024 Gordon Stakes winner and St Leger (G1) third Desert Hero (Sea The Stars).
Their Dansili half-sister Halay is the dam of the Grade 2 Belmont Gold Cup and Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy winner Siskany, by Dubawi.
Galatee is a half-sister to the dam of Australian Group 2 winner Aylmerton.
Bred by Queen Elizabeth II, Dartmouth hails from a wonderful Wildenstein family.
His second dam Altana is a half-sister to the champion Arcangues and to Group 3 winner Agathe, who is the dam of champion Aquarelliste and the Group 1 winner and sire Artiste Royal, and the second dam of the 1,000 Guineas winner Cape Verdi.
Altana is also a half-sister to the dams of the Group 1 winner Angara and the Group winners Actrice, Breton Rock and Forgotten Voice. It’s also the family of young Coolmore NH sire Luxembourg.
To date, Dartmouth is the sire of 22 winners from 74 runners out of his first three crops. His best performer is Naval College, who is a dual Listed winner in Australia following his 185,000gns purchase by Sackville Donald at the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale of 2022.
At the 2025 sales Dartmouth’s stores averaged €5,500. The previous year, his stores averaged €21,804, while his foals sold for an average price of €5,000.
Dartmouth’s highest-priced store is a son of Grade 1 Dr PJ Moriarty Chase winner J’Y Vole, who made €85,000 to Gordon Elliott and Bective Stud from Lakefield Farm at the Goffs Arkle Sale of 2024.
He has 46 members of his first crop and they have produced 12 winners from 30 runners while he has six winners from his second crop of 44 six-year-olds and a
winner and four winners from this year’s five-year-olds, his third crop.
For the store sales this year, his crop numbers 32, he has 22 two-year-olds and 14 yearlings
Dubawi-All At Sea (Sea The Stars) Chapel Stud
£5,000
Year to stud: 2025
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 runnerup 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.
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), a nd 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 and now the dam of Australian Group winner Alalcance.
She is also a half-sister to Algometer by Archipenko, winner of the Newbury Arc Trial (G3) and the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes, and the Listed winner Alwilda, the dam of Alpinista and the Listed winner Alpenblume.
Second dam Albanova won three Group 1 contests in Germany and is an Alzao full-sister to the dual Champion Stakes (G1) 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.
Eldar Eldarov covered 30 mares in his first season.
Frontiersman’s second crop of 66 five-year-olds includes Tally Ho Back, runner-up in the Listed bumper at Ascot in December for the Twiston Davies team
Dubawi-Ouija Board (Cape Cross)
£2,000
Overbury Stud Year to stud: 2019
An impeccably bred son of Dubawi who is a half-brother to Derby winner Australia out of the seven-time Group 1 winner Ouija Board, Frontiersman has the page for the job.
The Listed Godolphin Stakes winner, who was runner-up to Highland Reel in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, has made a promising start with runners from his first two small crops conceived at £1,000.
Bred by Ouija Board’s owner-breeder Lord Derby, the 13-year-old is also a half-brother to Australian Group 3 winner Voodoo Prince. Frontiersman raced in the Godolphin blue silks for Charlie Appleby and made his debut at three, winning over 1m2f on his second start.
In all, he ran five times that year and won twice.
On just his third start at four, he was pitched into Group 1 company and produced possibly the best performance of his career when running second to the global Group 1 winner Highland Reel and finishing ahead of Group 1 winners Hawkbill and Journey, as well as Group 2 winners Idaho, Red Verdon, Prize Money, the Group 3 winner and Derby runner-up US Army Ranger, the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Elbereth, and the Listed winner Air Patrol.
Later that summer he won the Godolphin Stakes, a 1m4f Listed race at Newmarket, defeating subsequent Group 1 winner Best Of Days, and he was placed in the Group 2 Princess Of Wales’s Stakes and the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes.
Frontiersman made two starts in Meydan at five and was placed both times, as runner-up to Hawkbill in the Group 2 Dubai City of Gold Stakes and fourth to Vazirabad in the Group 2 Dubai Gold Cup on the World Cup card. He ran 16 times and was only out of the first four on three occasions.
His Galileo half-brother Australia won three times at the highest level and was third in the 2,000 Guineas before commencing a stallion career that has yielded seven Group 1 winners, headed by last year’s Derby and Irish Derby winner Lambourn.
Ouija Board died at the age of 21 and among the seven top level trophies collected by Lord Derby’s homebred daughter of Cape Cross were consecutive victories in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.
Her dam Selection Board is a Welsh Pageant full-sister to the Grade 1 Arlington Million and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Teleprompter and a half-sister to Rosia Bey, the dam of Group 1 winners Roseate Tern and Ibn Bey and second dam of Red Camellia, a Group 2 winner who has been an influential broodmare for Cheveley Park Stud.
It is also the family of 2023’s European champion three-year-old Ace Impact.
The first crop of Frontiersman are sixyear-olds this season and he has sired nine winners from 22 runners, including the Flat Listed-placed Asian Daze and Dodger Long, who was third in the Grade 3 Mullinam Hurdle at Fairyhouse for Harriet Dickin.
Frontiersman’s second crop of 66 five-year-olds includes Tally Ho Back, runner-up in the Listed bumper at Ascot in December for the Twiston-Davies team.
Frontiersman has 46 four-year-olds with his numbers dropping slightly after that – he has 34 registered three-yearolds and 26 two-year-olds but the exploits of his first crop on the track boosted his book in 2024 and he has 55 yearlings.
At the store sales last year he averaged €28,763 headed by a €28,000 transaction at the Derby Sale where Ash Hill House bought the half-sister to Grade 1 Liverpool Hurdle winner Thyne Hill from Brown Island Stables.
That average represented a minor increase on the figure recorded in 2024, while his foals averaged €19,001 in 2025 with the top price of £28,000 at the British Breeders NH Showcase, where Rathmore Stud bought Peel Bloodstock’s colt out of the Listed Pontefract Castle Stakes third Shearling.
Galileo-Hveger (Danehill)
Skuttles Barrough Stud
£2,000
Year to stud: 2019
A full-brother to the globe-trotting seven-time Group 1 winner Highland Reel, from a top class family and a Royal Ascot
winner on the track, Idaho is standing his first season at Chloe Roddick and Philip Maloney’s new farm in Somerset.
The timing couldn’t be better for the couple to acquire Idaho as he sired his first Grade 1 winner prior to the start of the 2026 breeding season when Idaho Sun, from his debut crop, was successful in the Formby Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree for Harry Fry. The six-year-old has only met defeat once in his six career starts and that was when sixth in the Champion Bumper at last year’s Cheltenham Festival.
Idaho was successful on debut at two, and pitched straight into Group 1 company on just his second start by Aidan O’Brien, Idaho was a high-class performer from the start of a career that took him around the world.
Placed behind Harzand in both the Derby and Irish Derby, Idaho was an authoritative winner of the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes and was sent off favourite for the St Leger at Doncaster in which he suffered a nasty spill.
At four he was a comfortable winner of
the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot and then finished third to Enable and Ulysses in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Sent on his travels, his next four starts were all in Group or Grade 1 company and he went from New York to Paris to Woodbine and then Tokyo with fourth in the Grade 1 Canadian International at 1m4f his best result.
His first start at five was in Dubai for the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic and he next popped up at Chester where he easily won the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes over 1m5f.
In that last year his best performances came in his two third places behind Stradivarius in the Group 1 Goodwood Cup and York’s Group 2 Lonsdale Cup, both around 2m.
In addition to Highland Reel, Idaho is also a full-brother to Cape Of Good Hope, who won the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes, and the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes winner Nobel Prize. Idaho’s full-sister Cercle De La Vie is the dam of Sumbe stallion and
Group 1-winning juvenile Angel Blue. Another sibling is the Group 1 Storm Queen Stakes and Victoria Oaks second Valdemoro.
Their dam Hveger was placed in the Group 1 Australasian Oaks and is a fullsister to the Australian champion and five-time Group 1 winner Elvstroem, and a half-sister to another Australian champion, the three-time Group 1 winner Haradasun.
They are out of Circles Of Gold, winner of the Group 1 AJC Oaks and a half-sister to the second dam of Group 1-winning sprinter and Starspangledbanner, sire of the leading two-year-old colt and filly of 2025 at the Cartier Awards.
His first crop of foals went under the hammer in 2020 and averaged €10,575 for 17 sold, his second crop averaged €6,800 and in 2022 averaged €3,993. His fourth crop of foals averaged just €3,000.
His first crop averaged €15,613 at the store sales with the most expensive of them being the Tullycanna Stables gelding out of West Elite, the unraced Westerner half-sister to Oscar Elite from the family of Gold Cup winner Lord Windermere. Kevin Ross Bloodstock went to €60,000 for him at the Goffs Arkle Sale.
He had cost €20,000 as a foal from Lisnagar Paddocks at the December NH Sale. He is now known as Idaho Sun.
The most expensive store sold to date by Idaho is El Gran Sueno, a half-brother to the black-type-placed Snake Roll and El Elefante, who made €80,000 to Lucinda Russell and Paul McIvor at last year’s Derby Sale.
He has one six-figure result at auction – Quantum Quest who made £125,000 to Mike Silver at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival Sale having been third on debut in a four-year-old maiden for Baltimore Stables.
The six-year-old was runner-up in a Grade 3 novice hurdle at Cork earlier this season for Henry de Bromhead.
Idaho has 137 six-year-olds, 124 fiveyear-olds and 91 four-year-olds. There are 19 three-year-olds by him and he has 15 two-year-olds.
Halling-Swain’s Gold (Swain)
Overbury Stud
£4,000
Year to stud: 2018
Jack Hobbs, trained by John Gosden to win the 2015 Irish Derby, was the first Irish Derby hero since Fame And Glory to retire directly to the NH breeding ranks.
Bred by legendary jockey Willie Carson and his late wife Elaine, Jack Hobbs was sold for 60,000gns to Blandford Bloodstock at the 2013 Tattersalls October Book 3 Sale.
He had the misfortune to be of the same Classic crop as stable companion Golden Horn whom he chased home in both the Group 2 Dante Stakes and Derby. In between those two runs he was purchased by Godolphin for whom he comfortably won the Irish Derby, beating Storm The Stars, Highland Reel and Oaks winner Qualify.
Freshened up after a summer break, Gosden sent him to Kempton for the Group 3 September Stakes which he won easily before his third place behind Fascinating Rock and Found in the Group 1 Champions’ Stakes at Ascot.
Injury problems meant he ran just twice at four, again taking the third step on the podium in the Champions’ Stakes, this time behind Almanzor and Found with Group 1 winners My Dream Boat and The Grey Gatsby in fourth and fifth.
Kept in training at five, he started the season with a triumphant return to the winners’ enclosure after the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic, defeating Group 1 winners Highland Reel, Postponed and Seventh Heaven. He ran twice more that year, both times finishing down the field at Group 1 level and he was retired to Overbury Stud for the 2018 season.
He is one of five winners out of Swain’s Gold and the best runner she has produced so far. Her other black-type performers are Niceofyoutotellme, a son of Hernando who was third in the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes for Ralph Beckett the same season Jack Hobbs won the Irish Derby, and Safecracker who filled the same position in the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes
and is by Jack Hobbs’ nemesis Golden Horn.
As a son of Halling out of a Swain mare, Jack Hobbs offers breeders a complete outcross with a pedigree clear of inbreeding within the first five generations and with just one line of Northern Dancer.
Halling is already the sire of Coastal Path, a half-brother to Martaline and Reefscape who was on his way to becoming an influential NH sire before a testicular problem forced his retirement from stud duties at the age of 15.
He is the sire of Willie Mullins-trained Grade 1 winners Asterion Forlonge, Bacardys, Franco De Port and Saint Roi.
Jack Hobbs received strong support from breeders in his early years at stud with a first crop of 106 foals, of which 79 have started and 29 are winners. His second crop of 91 foals has produced 63 runners and 18 winners so far while his third crop, five-year-olds this year, numbers 97 with ten winners from 43 runners.
His crop of four-year-olds sneaks into top place at 107 registered foals and seven have already made their debut.
He has 93 three-year-olds registered and a similar number of yearlings at 92 while his yearlings dropped to 53.
He has had 158 NH starters so far for 57 winners of 98 races – on the Flat, The Gadget Man won twice on for Ralph Beckett and was sold at the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale for 310,000gns to agent Guy Mulcaster and Australian-based trainer Chris Waller.
Jack Hobbs first crop boasts three NH blacktype performers – last month’s Grade 2 Pendil Novices Chase winner Jax Junior trained by Lucy Wadham, Grade 2 Persian War Novices’ Hurdle runner-up Intense Approach and I’m A Lumberjack, third in a Listed bumper at Newbury for Alan King
Eight of his progeny have sold for six-figure sums following impressive point-to-point performances, headed by the aforementioned Intense Approach (€9,000 Goffs UK January 2020). He was Jack Hobbs’ first Irish point-to-point winner in February 2023, winning a
2m4f maiden at Farmaclaffley for trainer Warren Ewing and jockey Dara McGill. He was subsequently sold at the Tattersalls Festival Sale to John McConnell Racing for £210,000.
At last year’s Cheltenham Festival Sale debut Ballycahane four-year-old mares’ maiden winner Ash Hobbs became the most expensive Jack Hobbs filly sold by when bought by Mags O’Toole for £170,000 from Harley Dunne.
Sporting the colours of Robcour, she has run in a bumper for trainer Henry de Bromhead.
In 2025 Jack Hobbs’ foals averaged £14,407, up from £11,178 in 2024 with the average for his stores at last year coming in at £24,173, a minor drop from £24,777 a year previously.
Galileo-Chelsea Rose (Desert King) Batsford Stud
£3,000
Year to stud: 2021
A handsome son of Galileo with a Group 1-winning dam and a stakes-winning juvenile himself, Kew Gardens was amongst the busiest new stallions at stud in 2021 when he covered 198 mares but without even a runner on the ground, he moved to Batsford Stud for the 2025 season.
Bred by David and Diane Nagle at their renowned Barronstown Stud nursery, Kew Gardens ran five times at two for Aidan O’Brien winning the Listed Zetland Stakes at Newmarket in a track record time by more than 3l from Dee Ex Bee,
who went on to finish second in the Derby. Kew Gardens was also second in the Group 3 Champions’ Juvenile Stakes at Leopardstown and won his maiden over a mile on his second start.
At three, he won the Group 2 Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot on his first start over 1m6f, stretching more than 4l clear of his pursuers.
That victory set him up for Group 1 glory in the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp, the first of his two triumphs at the highest level as a three-year-old. He added the St Leger comfortably from Lah Ti Dar with Dee Ex Bee and Old Persian further back. Kew Gardens was also third to Old Persian and Cross Counter in the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes.
Remaining in training at four he
performed at the highest level, losing by a nose to Defoe in the Group 1 Coronation Cup and finishing runner-up to Search For A Song in the Irish St Leger. His final race was memorable for halting the unbeaten run of champion stayer Stradivarius by a nose in thrilling finish to the Group 2 British Champions’ Long Distance Cup.
He is one of three Group winners out of the Moyglare Stakes winner Chelsea Rose, a daughter of Desert King, so he is bred on a version of the Galileo-Danehill cross.
His full-sister Snow won the Group 3 Munster Oaks and their older Tamayuz half-sister was a Group 3 winner and second in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.
Chelsea Rose’s Red Ransom colt Hamlool was second in the Listed Lingfield Classic Trial and her winning Invincible Spirit
daughter Pale Orchid is the dam of Free Eagle’s first crop Listed Caravaggio Stakes winner Justifier.
Chelsea Rose trained on to win the Ballyroan and Dance Design Stakes (both Listed contests then) and to be placed in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes and Premio Lydia Tesio.
Her dam Cinnamon Rose is by Trempolino, and out of the Green Dancer mare Sweet Simone, who is the dam of Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner River Warden and Sweettuc, who won the Grade 3 Hoist The Flag Stakes.
Kew Gardens stands out due to his inbreeding to the great mare Special.
She features in the fourth and fifth generations of his pedigree through her daughter Fairy Bridge, dam of Sadler’s Wells, and son Nureyev who is a three-
parts brother to Sadler’s Wells and is the broodmare sire of Desert King.
Kew Gardens is also 4S x 5D x 5D to Northern Dancer but two of those lines won’t appear in the first five generations of his foals’ pedigrees.
He had 110 foals born in his first crop who are four-year-olds this year with three already having made their debut; two on the track and one in an Irish point-topoint.
His numbers for his second crop of foals dropped and he has just 50 registered three-year-olds with the sharp decline continuing in his third season. Kew Gardens has ten two-year-olds and five yearlings registered.
Kew Gardens’ first crop of stores averaged €14,295 at the sales last year.
The Kew Gardens gelding out of the
winning Westerner mare Western Diva holds the distinction of being the most expensive member of his sire’s first crop as a foal and a store.
On his first spin round the sales ring at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale he made €24,000 to Niall Bleahen from Tullyglush Stables. At last year’s Goffs Arkle Sale, Bleahen sold him for €38,000 to Paul Power.
Frankel-Scuffle (Daylami)
Shade Oak Stud
£4,000
Year to stud: 2022
A Classic-winning son of Frankel from a typically strong Juddmonte family –Logician is out of a half-sister to Bated Breath – and he stands his fifth season at Shade Oak Stud in 2026.
Logician’s first runner was a winner –In Between Days, who won a three-yearolds hurdle at Auteuil. The gelding is out of Mia’s Storm, a Listed winner for Alan King by September’s Storm.
The ten-year-old went through his debut season unbeaten, beginning with success in Newbury maiden over 1m2f for trainer John Gosden, who increased the scale of the challenge faced by Logician with each run.
Victory in a Newmarket novice followed
on his second start and he returned to Newbury for a 1m4f handicap after which his record read three wins from three starts.
Gosden decided to test the horse’s mettle in the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on his next run and he passed with a comfortable success over a field which included Nayef Road.
Sent off odds-on favourite for the
St Leger, he defeated Sir Ron Priestley, Nayef Road, Sir Dragonet and Technician to secure the final Classic of the season and European champion three-year-old stayers’ honours.
A couple of months after his Classic triumph, Logician had to undergo surgery to treat life-threatening peritonitis and pleurisy and his joust with illness left its mark on the grey. He returned to race
almost exactly a year after his St Leger victory, winning a conditions race over course and distance.
He was retired as a five-year-old and purchased by Shade Oak Stud.
Logician is a full-brother to Collide, a Listed winner in France who was also Listed-placed in Australia.
They have a Champs Elysees half-sister Suffused, who won three Grade 3 contests in the US and was second in the Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes and is the dam of last year’s Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner Sunly (Night Of Thunder)
Their Time Test half-brother Okeechobee won the Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes.
Sleep Walk, a winning half-sister to Logician by Oasis Dream, is the dam of dual Grade 1 Diana Stakes winner Whitebeam, a daughter of Caravaggio. Alienate, a full-sister to Sleep Walk, produced 2025’s Group 2 Lancashire Oaks
Logician: foal
winner and Yorkshire Oaks (G1) second Estrange, also by Night Of Thunder.
Dam Scuffle was third in the Listed Snowdrop Stakes at Kempton and is a Daylami half-sister to the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free winner and sire Cityscape, and the Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1-placed sire Bated Breath.
Scuffle has produced eight winners and is also a half-sister to Tarentaise, the unraced dam of the Group 2 Meydan Sprint winner and the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes second Equilateral.
His second dam Tantina was twice a Listed winner at Goodwood and is a Distant View half-sister to the Chilean
Successful over 1m4f at the highest level and a Group 2-winning juvenile, Mogul is bred on the outstanding Galileo-Danehill cross that produced the 2021 champion sire Frankel
Listed winner Colonialism, and to the dam of Gimcrack Stakes (G2) winner Ajaya and Group 3 winner Extra Elusive. The family stretches to the European champion twoyear-old Xaar and the blue hen mare Best In Show.
Logician’s first crop are three-year-olds and number 142 with 125 two-year-olds and 86 yearlings registered. His foal sale average halved from 2024 to 2025, going from €10,914 to €5,721.
Midnight Legend- Giving (Generous)
Batsford Stud
£1,000
Year to stud: 2023
Midnight Legend was one of the most successful British-based NH sires of recent years and stood at David and Kathleen Holmes’ Pitchall Stud. It was the couple’s long-held ambition that he would be able to sire a son capable of following in his hoofprints and earning a place at stud.
The appropriately-named Midnights Legacy is the product of that quest and the stallion began his stud career in 2023 at Dan and Grace Skelton’s Alne Park Stud but now stands at Batsford Stud.
Although he didn’t win a black-type race, Midnights Legacy was a durable sort and had a decent career both on the Flat and over hurdles, winning under both codes.
On the Flat he raced 19 times for five
wins and three placings, including when winning the second of his two starts as a juvenile in a 1m3f Bath maiden, his first two starts at three, both in handicap company, and a decent handicap at Epsom on Derby Day as a four-year-old.
At four, his first NH start was a winning one in a Plumpton novice hurdle as was his first chase start the following season in a 2m event at Ludlow in March. He was still plenty quick enough to head back to Epsom that summer, once again on Derby Day to land the Northern Dancer Handicap. He retired the winner of eight races and with six placings from 26 starts under both codes.
His first dam Giving (Generous) was also a winner at two and she placed three times at four in France. She produced a pair of Listed-winning hurdlers – Midnight’s Gift, who is also by Midnight Legend, and Giving Glances, who is by Midnight Legacy’s stud mate Passing Glance. Forgiving Glance, a full-sister to Giving Glances was second in the Listed Fillies’ Juvenile Hurdle at Aintree.
His second dam Madiyla was a winner at three and is dam of the Listed winner Burn The Breeze, and of Lethals Lady, winner of the Prix Aymeri de Mauleon (L) at Toulouse and second in the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes at Saratoga and third in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches
Madiyla also is the second dam of Katchit, who was victorious in the Champion Hurdle, the Triumph Hurdle and the Anniversary Novice Hurdle at Aintree.
Midnights Legacy has 13 two-yearolds and nine yearlings and now stands at Batsford Stud having moved to the Cotswolds farm after Alne Park Stud finished operating last year.
Galileo-Shastye (Danehill)
Willow Wood Stud
£2,500
Year to stud: 2022
Successful over 1m4f at the highest level and a Group 2-winning juvenile, Mogul is bred on the outstanding Galileo-Danehill
cross that produced the 2021 champion sire Frankel, as well as Teofilo, who is the sire of more than 20 individual Group 1 winners.
Mogul got off the mark on his second start at two in a mile maiden at The Curragh before he was sent into Group 2 company for the Champions Juvenile Stakes at Leopardstown, which he won before ending his juvenile season with fourth to subsequent 2,000 Guineas winner Kameko in a rearranged Vertem Futurity Trophy on Newcastle’s All-Weather track.
Covid disrupted the 2020 season and Mogul made a delayed reappearance in the King Edward VII Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot in which he was fourth to Pyledriver.
The topsy-turvy nature of that season meant that the Derby was run on July 4, and Mogul finished sixth to runaway winner Serpentine.
Stepped up to 1m6f for the Group 3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood on his next start, Mogul returned to winning ways, defeating subsequent Ascot Gold Cup hero Subjectivist. He couldn’t follow up in the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2) in which he finished third of four but in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1), which was run in September 2020, he succeeded his older full-brother Japan as the winner of that 1m4f contest.
His immediate victim that day was Deutsches Derby winner In Swoop, who would follow up that performance with a close second to Sottsass in the Arc.
Mogul went to the Breeders’ Cup and was beaten just 3l by Tarnawa in the Grade 1 Turf before heading on east to Hong Kong for the Group 1 Vase at Sha Tin, in which he defeated champion and horse of the year Exultant to win his second Group 1 over 1m4f.
Kept in training as a four-year-old, Mogul was campaigned at the highest level with his best performance coming when a good third to Mare Australis in the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp.
Bred by Newsells Park Stud, Mogul cost MV Magnier 3.4m guineas at the 2018 Tattersalls Book 1.
His year-older full-brother Japan was also a dual Group 1 winner and beat Crystal
Ocean in an epic tussle for the Juddmonte International. Their older full-sister Secret Gesture won the Group 2 Middleton Stakes and was placed five times at the highest level, including in the Oaks.
He is also a full-brother to the Group 3 winner Sir Isaac Newtown and a halfbrother to the Australian Listed winner and Group 3-placed Maurus by Medicean.
His unraced Sadler’s Wells three-parts sister Shabyt is the dam of 2021 Listed winner Shandoz by Golden Horn and the Listed-placed Shaherezada by Dutch Art.
The amazing sales mare Shastye produced sales of over 14m guineas for Newsells Park Stud, while on the track she was second in the Listed Pontefract Castle Stakes and boasts an excellent pedigree.
Her Linamix half-brother Sagamix won the Arc, while her Highest Honor half-brother Sagacity was a two-year-old Group 1 winner.
She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 winner Sage Et Jolie, dam of the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner and sire Sageburg and her winning Linamix half-sister Saga D’Ouilly produced two Listed winners and
the granddam of 2021’s Group 1 Middle Park and Prix Morny winner Perfect Power and his half-brother, Wise Approach who emulated him in the Newmarket juvenile contest last year.
Mogul has 101 registered three-yearolds with one, a filly named Double Option, running on the Flat in Hungary as a twoyear-old.
His first crop averaged €6,327 at the sales in 2023 with the top price of €16,000 for the colt out of the Listed-placed chaser Pretty Reckless, who was bought by Lakefield Farm from The Beeches Stud at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.
None of his nine registered yearlings were sold as foals last year.
Teofilo–Reckoning (Danehill Dancer) Chapel Stud
£4,000
Year to stud: 2024
Subjectivist is new to Chapel Stud for the 2026 season and the Group 1 winner ran 20 times from two years to six for the
training combination of Team Johnston, winning six races and placing in a further eight.
The Mascalls Stud-bred son of Teofilo ran seven times as a juvenile winning a 7f Chelmsford maiden by 7l and placing second three times, including when runner-up in Salisbury’s mile Listed Stonehenge Stakes.
At three, he debuted at Royal Ascot in the King George V Handicap and was a good third behind subsequent Group 1 winner Hukum. He took second over two furlongs further in a 1m6f handicap and then showed his versatility when winning the Listed Glasgow Stakes at Hamilton over 1m3f just 11 days later.
He was kept busy and a fortnight later finished third in Glorious Goodwood’s Leger Trial, the Group 3 Gordon Stakes.
He ran twice in August that year, unplaced in York’s Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2) then returned to Goodwood to win the March Stakes (G3) over 1m4f.
He was allowed to take his chance in the final Classic at Doncaster when down the field behind the winner Galileo Chrome.
He bounced back from that in style – after making all on heavy ground he proved his stamina capabilities winning the first of his Group 1s at Longchamp in the 1m7f Prix Royal Oak from the Group 2 winner and multiple Group-placed Valia.
As a four-year-old he had a perfect, albeit short, campaign winning both his starts. The first of those was in March at Meydan, where, under an enterprising Joe Fanning ride, he made all to land the valuable Dubai Gold Cup (G2) over two miles.
And even better was to come when he recorded his career highlight next time out at Royal Ascot. Sent off second-favourite behind eventual fourth Stradivarius in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup, he travelled strongly and powered home impressively beating Princess Zoe with the Irish and Epsom Derby winners Santiago and Serpentine further back in seventh and eighth.
Subjectivist wasn’t seen again until almost two years later in 2023 when
Subjectivist has been supported in the covering shed by his former trainer
Mark Johnston who has sent him some mares
a down-the-field February run in the valuable Red Sea Handicap at Riyadh preceded two third placings in the two races he’d won in 2021 – the Dubai Gold Cup and behind Courage Mon Ami in the Ascot Gold Cup.
By the unbeaten juvenile and top sire Teofilo (Galileo), Subjectivist was always likely to come into his own over a distance of ground and his Danehill Dancer dam Reckoning was a winner over a mile at two years and placed three times over 1m2f in the Listed Gillies Stakes, the Festival
Stakes and the Hoppings Stakes.
She was a 55,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 yearling of 2010 who also sold twice at the same venue’s December Mares’ Sale – for 42,000gns in 2013 and then to Subjectivist’s breeder Mascalls Stud for 160,000gns the following year.
Reckoning is dam of two further blacktype horses – Sir Ron Priestley (Australia), winner of the Princess Of Wales’ Stakes and the Jockey Club Stakes, both Group 2 races run over 1m4f, and the March Stakes (G3).
He also was a runner-up in the St Leger (G1) and third in the Group 1 Goodwood Cup. Her daughter Alba Rose (Muhaarar) had a best performance when third in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes.
There are 26 registered yearlings in Subjectivist’s first crop covered 33 mares in his first season with one filly selling for £1,000 at Doncaster.
Subjectivist has been supported in the covering shed by his former trainer Mark Johnston.
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We run through the pedigree, profiles and progeny performances of the young jumps sires standing in Ireland. Statistics from Weatherbys
Teofilo-Swiss Roll (Entrepreneur)
Clongiffen Stud
POA
Year to stud: 2020
A Teofilo half-brother to one of the most famous and popular chasers of recent times, Austrian School’s kinship with Tiger Roll is not the only reason why this 16.2hh bay was snapped up for stud duties – he has a further pedigree to recommend him.
Dam Swiss Roll has produced black-type performers on the Flat, as well as her Cheltenham Festival and Grand National-winning son. The daughter of Entrepreneur was second in the Listed Vintage Crop Stakes and her Dubawi son Ahzeemah was a high-class stayer for Godolphin winning the Group 2 Lonsdale Cup and the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy, and he also finished second in the Group 1 Irish St Leger to Voleuse De Coeurs.
Austrian School was a classy performer and earned an official rating of 110 during his four-year-old season. Forward enough to win on his debut at two over a mile for Mark Johnston in August, he also won over 1m2f that season. At three, he made a winning seasonal reappearance over 1m6f and was second in the Listed Glasgow Stakes over 1m6f. His final start that year came in the 1m6f Listed Noel Murless Stakes when a close third.
The following year he won on his seasonal bow once more and was third to Dee Ex Bee in the Group 3 Henry II Stakes at Sandown and second in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes.
A remarkably consistent horse, Austrian School ran 18 times and won four races, finishing out of the first four on just three occasions.
His dam Swiss Roll is a full-sister to Berenson, who was second in the Group 1 National Stakes at two and is a half-sister to Group 3 Park Express Stakes winner Pollen, the dam of the Japanese Group 3-placed Pollentia.
He had 17 reported foals in his first crop and 18 in his second; his first foals included a filly out of Mariah Mooney, a half-sister to the Grade 1 Leopardstown novice chase winner Mariah Rollins, who is also the dam of Pendra, a Grade 3-winning chaser and second-placed in the Grade 1 Tolworth Novice Hurdle.
Austrian School has had two runners over jumps this season.
Frankel-Nisriyna (Intkihab)
Boardsmill Stud Private
Year to stud: 2025
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 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, Arrest 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 by 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 (both Group 2 races).
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 in Hong Kong and to the Listed Rous Stakes third Spring Loaded.
Their three-year-old Wootton Bassett half-brother Detain was runner-up to
Camille Pissarro in the Prix du Jockey Club for the Gosdens and Juddmonte, who bought him for €340,000 as a foal at Goffs.
Arrest’s unraced Holy Roman Emperor half-sister Rosie Scot is the dam of the Group 3-placed Alpheratz.
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 the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches second Maiden Tower.
Arrest covered 165 mares in 2025.
BOLSHOI BALLET
Galileo-Alta Anna (Anabaa)
Blackrath Stud
On application
Year to stud: 2024
A Coolmore homebred, Bolshoi Ballet has his first yearlings this year and is standing at Blackrath Stud having begun
his career at The Beeches. A dual Group 1 winner by Galileo, he was Coolmore’s sole representative in the 2021 Epsom Derby when sent off favourite for the Classic.
As a two-year-old the son of Galileo wasn’t seen until October but made up for lost time by running three times that month – he ran green in a Newmarket maiden prior to winning a similar race at Leopardstown before placing fifth, beaten just over 2l, in the 1m2f Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1) on heavy ground.
At three, he started the season in tremendous fashion and on his first two starts he recorded the same Ballysax/ Derrinstown Derby Trial Group 3 double as fellow Coolmore sires Galileo, High Chaparral, Yeats and Fame And Glory.
Onto Epsom for his next start the 11/8 favourite was struck into early, but still managed a respectable seventh behind Adayar.
Given a short rest, he reappeared next at Belmont for the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1) keeping on determinedly to record his first top-level success. He was to race four more times that season with a best-placed finish when fourth in the Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes (G1).
Kept in training at four, Bolshoi Ballet raced just once, and that wasn’t until November 2022 when fourth in the Listed Churchill Stakes at Lingfield.
He undoubtedly showed connections that he retained his ability and was kept in training as a five-year-old.
His first start came in April 2023 when third behind stablemate Emily Dickinson in the 1m6f Vintage Crop Stakes (L) at Navan before being headed in the final 100yds next time out at Newbury in the Group 3 Al Rayyan Stakes back over 1m4f.
He followed that with a second at Royal Ascot in the Listed 1m2f Wolferton Stakes before a sixth to Hukum in the 1m4f King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) on unsuitably soft ground.
Bolshoi Ballet’s final start was in August in the Sword Dancer Stakes (G1) back at
Saratoga and he put up probably his best performance being only pushed out to win going away by four and a half lengths.
Bolshoi Ballet’s dam is Alta Anna, an unraced daughter of Anabaa.
She is the dam of five winners and, in addition to Bolshoi Ballet, his 2015 full-brother Southern France was the winner of four races at three to four years, including the Zipping Sandown Classic (G2), the Irish St. Leger Trial (G3) and the Yeats Stakes (L).
He was also placed on multiple occasions at Group level including in the Irish St. Leger (G1), the St Leger (G1), and when fourth in the Goodwood Cup (G1).
Bolshoi Ballet has 41 registered yearlings and those that came under the hammer at the 2025 foal sales averaged €5,500.
Sea The Stars-Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem) Beeches Stud
€8,000
Year to stud: 2020
Crystal Ocean’s first two crops have each come up with a Listed-winning hurdler – Auteuil victor Saint Crystal from his debut produce and the unbeaten Highland Crystal, who is winner of a Newbury juvenile hurdle contest for Gordon Elliott and then finished seventh in the Triumph Hurdle (G1).
That first crop produced nine four-yearold maiden winners with Cristal D’Estruval winning on debut for Colin Bowe at Lisronagh in late February. He was just the second point-to-point runner for Crystal Ocean and went on to top the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale when selling for £400,000 to Harry Derham.
The stallion’s NH sale average for his first crop of foals was an impressive €35,688 with the session-topping €120,000 foal from Tattersalls Ireland, the standout amongst some meaty auction prices.
Foal prices stayed strong the following year and his 2022 average was €25,644 with a top price of €75,000 given by Ian Ferguson at Goffs December NH Sale for the colt out of Presenting Juno (Presenting).
His first stores hit the sales in 2024 and averaged €35,862 with the most expensive filly being a half-sister to Ballyburn bought for €92,000 by Cobajay Stables at the Goffs Arkle Sale.
Willie Mullins and Harold Kirk teamed up with MV Magnier at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale to buy a gelding out of Carrowmore from Baroda Stud for €120,000.
With the exploits of his first crop fresh in buyers’ minds, his second crop returned an improved store sale average of €49,919.
Gordon Elliott went to €200,000 at the Goffs Arkle Sale for the second foal out
Dee Ex Bee was a consistent runner and was unlucky to bump into first Kew Gardens and then Stradivarius
of Whistle Dixie, a Grade 3-placed halfsister to Kicking King and to the dam of Kalashnikov, sold by Ballintogher Stud.
The sire’s fifth crop of foals sold for an average price of €24,615 last winter.
Top price for a son of Crystal Ocean at the Derby Sale was €140,000 given by Willie Mullins and Harold Kirk for Coolmara Stud’s gelding out of Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Tintangle.
Bred by the late Renee Robeson and raced in the colours of her brother Sir Evelyn Rothschild, Crystal Ocean was an incredibly consistent racehorse. Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Crystal Ocean was never once out of the first three in 17 career starts, all but two of which were in Group races. One of those was his debut over 7f at two, when he was second by just a neck in a Newbury maiden.
At three he finished third in the Group 2 Dante Stakes to the more experienced Permian and Benbatl. He occupied the same position behind Permian in Royal Ascot’s Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes before breaking through the glass ceiling in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes. He went down fighting to Capri in the St Leger, a trait that would come to define some of his greatest performances over the following two seasons.
Given time to mature, Crystal Ocean developed into one of the best horses in the world at four and five.
He ran off a treble of Group wins in his first three starts at four and was second to Poet’s Word in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, losing out by a neck with the pair pulling 9l clear of the field.
He was second to Cracksman in the 1m2f Group 1 Champions’ Stakes, beating the Group 1 winners Capri, Rhododendron
and Verbal Dexterity.
As a five-year-old he was involved in some of 2019’s most memorable European races, starting off his campaign with his second successive victories in the Group 3 Gordon and Aston Park Stakes before finally getting his head in front in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, defeating Group 1 winners Magical, Waldgeist, Sea Of Class, Deirdre, Zabeel Prince and Desert Encounter.
In a thrilling renewal of the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, he and Enable battled most of the way up Ascot’s home straight with the mare just getting the better of him by a neck.
It was a similar scenario in the Group 1 Juddmonte International at York with the two-year younger Japan, who had to dig deep into his reserves to see off Crystal Ocean by a head, getting 7lb from his elder.
Crystal Ocean is a three-parts brother to the dual Group 2 Pride Stakes winner Crystal Capella (Cape Cross) and a half-brother to the Grade 1 Canadian International winner Hillstar. He is also a half-brother to the Listed Newbury Fillies’ Trial winner Crystal Zvezda.
Farhh-Dubai Sunrise (Seeking The Gold) Arctic Tack Stud POA
Year to stud: 2022
Trained by Mark Johnston, Dee Ex Bee ran 21 times, won four races, and was placed second or third 12 times. Dee Ex Bee was a consistent runner and was unlucky to bump into first Kew Gardens and then Stradivarius.
As a two-year-old he won on his first start at Goodwood over 7f in August, finished third at Listed level in September, won at Epsom over a mile in October and at the end of the season finished second in the 1m2f Zetland Stakes to Kew Gardens.
His appreciation for Epsom continued as a three-year-old – he was second in the racecourse’s Listed Blue Riband Stakes on
his first start in April, was second in the Chester Vase (G3), before he ran the race of his career in the Epsom Derby (G1) when just a length second to Masar.
He finished down the field in the Irish Derby but bounced back when third to Kew Gardens in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1), was second to Cross Counter in the Gordon Stakes (G3), fourth in the Group 1 St Leger (once again behind Kew Gardens), and then third to Iquitos in the Grosser Preis von Bayern (G1).
At four, he won on his first two starts – on his first try over 2m in the Sagaro Stakes (G3) and then over in the Henry VII Stakes at Sandown.
He took on Stradivarius in the Gold Cup (G1) at Royal Ascot, and was just a length down at the line, shortening that distance to just a neck in the Goodwood Cup (G1).
He rounded the year off with a thirdplaced finish in the Prix du Cadran (G1), behind Holdthasigreen and Call The Wind.
His sire Farhh has not really had the opportunity to prove himself due to fertility problems, but his progeny are headed by the Group 1-winning miler King Of Change, who is out of an Echo Of Light mare and is standing this year at Tweenhills at a fee of £8,500.
Dee Ex Bee hails from a leading stallion family – his unraced dam Dubai Sunrise is a full-sister to the champion and leading sire influence Dubai Millennium, of course, the sire of one of the world’s best stallions, Dubawi.
His third dam Fall Aspen, a two-time Grade 1 winner, was dam of the sires Hamas, Fort Wood, Timber Country and grand-dam of Elnadim.
Dee Ex Bee’s first crop numbers 79 and they will make their debut at this summer’s store sales having made a good first impression at the foal sales, averaging €13,886.
Three made over €30,000 at the Goffs December NH Sale with the top price at €37,000. Bobby O’Ryan bought Pat Kinsella’s colt out of Pat’s Oscar, a winning Oscar half-sister to Grade 2 winner Hiddenvalley Lake.
There are 83 foals in his second crop and
they averaged €6,367 at the sales in 2024, while his yearlings of 2026 are his biggest crop to date with 106 registered and an improved average price of €9,179.
Three foals made €20,000 or more the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale, headed by Clonbonny Stud’s colt out of Dreaminmotion, an unraced Arcadio half-sister to Lucid Dreams, who was bought by Ian Ferguson for €21,000.
Mountain View Stud received the same sum for their half-brother to bumper winner Queenofthejukebox from Maeve Barry.
Soldier Hollow-Divya (Platini) Kilbarry Lodge Stud On Application
Year to stud: 2019 (Ireland for 2026)
The Group 1 winner relocated to Ireland ahead of this breeding season having spent seven years at stud in France. Now 13, Dschingis Secret, who won five Group contests at 12f and 14f in addition to his Grosser Preis Von Berlin victory, will be available to Irish breeders.
Considering his first crop are six-yearolds and contain a Listed winner and a Grade 3-placed hurdler from a mainly Flat oriented group of 27 runners, the omens are positive for the only son of leading German stallion Soldier Hollow at stud in Ireland.
Bred by Helmut von Finck, who raced and stood his sire, Dschingis Secret is a full-brother to four black-type performers out of the winning Platini mare Divya. Next to him in achievement is Destino, who was successful in the Group 3
Fritz Henkel Stiftung Rennen and went one better than Dschingis Secret when finishing runner-up in the Deutsches Derby. They have a Listed-winning sister named Deia and Dschingis First, who was Group 3-placed in Germany has shown an aptitude for jumping with a third place finish in the Listed Prix Jean Bart Handicap Hurdle at Auteuil last year.
Divya is a full-sister to the Baden-Wurttemberg-Trophy (G3) winner Deva, dam of the Group 3 winner and sire Devastar and second dam of the 2015 German champion two-year-old filly Dhaba.
From that first crop comes the Listed bumper winner Shuttle Diplomacy who was third in last year’s Champion Bumper (G1) for trainer Tom Cooper and finished seventh in the Turner’s this year.
There is also Dschingis Love, who is out of an Authorized mare, and was second in the Grade 3 Prix la Perichole at Auteuil.
Dschingis Secret’s best performer on the Flat is the Group 3 Prix Minerve runner-up Dschingis Star, who was third in the Prix Gold River (Listed). Again from that debut crop, she is out of a mare by Sternkonig.
They are three of the 19 winners from the sire’s first crop.
His second crop are five and number 36 with 15 winners from 26 runners so far, while he has 14 winning four-year-olds from 23 runners and 44 foals.
Just two of his 33 three-year-olds have raced but one, the Yann Barberot-trained Dschingis Neckara, has already won. Her victory on the Flat in France came on the same day her year-older full-sister was second in a hurdle at Naas for Willie Mullins and Gigginstown House Stud.
There are 12 two-year-olds and 17 yearlings by him registered.
Sea The Stars-Swizzle Stick (Sadler’s Wells) Sunnyhill Stud
€3,000
Year to stud: 2022
From 36 starts, Fifty Stars won seven races, was placed 10 times and picked up
race earnings over £1,500,000.
He ran throughout his career in Australia, having been bought as a yearling by John Foote at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale in 2016.
He did not run at two, and began his racing career in May 2018 winning on his career debut over 7f and rounding the year off on his fourth start with success in a Group 3 over the same distance.
He ran 11 times in 2019, mainly over 7f and a mile, and while he did not trouble the judge at Group 1 level, he collected two Group 2 races in succession – Flemington’s mile Blamey Stakes and the 7f Ajax Stakes at Rosehill.
He finished mid-division on his next five starts before coming home in second in the Group 1 Cantala Stakes over a mile, beaten just a short-head.
The following February, after he finished second on that year’s debut, he made it two in a row in the Blamey Stakes and then collected his Group 1 when winning the Australia Cup at Flemington.
Spelled then through to the southernhemisphere spring season, he ran from October 2020 to September 2021 in nine Group 1s, four Group 2s, once in a Group 3 and once in a handicap without success, but with three runner-up results, including in the McKinnon Stakes (G1) behind Arcadia Queen and in the A D Hollindale Stakes (G2) to the talented British-bred Zaaki, who is now a multiple Group 1 winner.
A sound horse he was repatriated to Ireland to stand at Sunnyhill Stud as a jumps sire, the farm keen to capitalise on the fact that he is a half-brother to Whiskey Sour, winner of the Future Champions Novice Hurdle (G1) at Leopardstown.
His second dam Viz (Darshaan) was dam of Viztoria (Oratorio), a joint champion juvenile filly of 2012 in Ireland, while third dam For Example is dam of Forbearing, placed second in the Rose of Lancaster Stakes (G3), the Winter Hill Stakes (G3) and a three-time hurdle winner.
She is grand-dam of King Of Camelot, who was third in the Prix de Conde (G3).
The
first son of dual Derby winner Australia to retire to stud, Galileo Chrome’s first crop are four-year-olds of this year and he has been represented by his first runners over jumps and a winner in Italy.
Swizzle Stick is an unraced daughter of Sadler’s Wells so it does rule out mares by him or his immediate descendants.
His first crop numbered 43 and they averaged €11,520 at the sales with a top price hit of €26,000 at the Goffs December NH Sale for the first foal out of the Grade 2-winning hurdler Lady Breffni (Yeats). She was sold by Tinnakill House to Ballinaroone Stud.
One of the cohort has already run on the Flat with Aquasina making her debut at two for Stephanie Nigge in France.
Fifty Stars has 77 two-year-olds and they averaged €7,584 at the foal sales with one of their number selling as a yearling at Goffs Orby Book 2 for €27,000. The halfsister to Group 2-placed Stratum was sold by Tinnakill House to David Harry Kelly and features 3x3 inbreeding to both Urban Sea and Sadler’s Wells.
Australia-Curious Mind (Dansili)
Starfield Stud
£3,000
Year to stud: 2022
The first son of dual Derby winner Australia to retire to stud, Galileo Chrome’s first crop are five-year-olds of this year and he has been represented by his first runners over jumps and a winner in Italy.
As well as being Australia’s first stallion son, Galileo Chrome also has the distinction of being the first Group 1 winner by the impeccably bred sire who added a Derby winner to his resume last year with Lambourn.
Raced once at two, Galileo Chrome pieced together an unbeaten threeyear-old season starting with a maiden success over 1m2f at The Curragh where
the vanquished included the subsequent runaway Derby winner Serpentine.
His first attempt at stakes level gave him victory in the 1m5f Listed Yeats Stakes, an impressive performance which convinced connections to let him take his chance in the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster, a decision that was rewarded with a thrilling success over Berkshire Rocco and Pyledriver with Irish Derby winner Santiago in fourth.
Bred and raced by Mohamed Ali Meddeb, Galileo Chrome hails from the outstanding Lanwades Stud family founded by Alruccaba.
His dam Curious Mind is a Dansili half-sister to a pair of Listed Cocked Hat Stakes winners in Private Secretary and Michelangelo, who was also third in the St Leger.
They are out of the Listed-placed Intrigued, a Darshaan full-sister to the Listed Ballymacoll Stakes winner Approach, who is the dam of the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and Prix Jean Romanet winner Coronet (Dubawi) and Midas Touch (Galileo), who won the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and was second in the Irish Derby.
Intrigued’s Danehill half-brother Aussie Rules won the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile for Coolmore.
They are out of the Alzao mare Last Second, who won the Nassau Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes when they were both Group 2 contests.
Last Second is a half-sister to the Group 3 Doncaster Cup winner Alleluia (Caerleon), who is the dam of Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak winner Allegretto (Galileo), and she in turn is the dam of the Listed Aphrodite Stakes winner and Group 2 second Cabaletta.
She is also a half-sister to Listed Oyster Stakes winner Alouette, a daughter of Darshaan, who was also third in the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes at two and is the dam of the Group 1-winning Alzao full-sisters Albanova and Alborada, a dual winner of the Champion Stakes.
Another of Last Second’s half-sisters is Jude, a daughter of Darshaan who failed to win on the track but has made a lasting impact as a broodmare with no less than six daughters earning black-type.
They are headed by the Sadler’s Wells full-sisters Yesterday, winner of the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes winner Quartermoon, who was also placed in three Classics and is the dam of four black-type performers, including the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes winner Diamondsandrubies.
Quarter Moon is also the second dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed Eminent by Frankel.
It is the family of Arc heroine Alpinista and young National Hunt sire and the dual Group 1 winner Eldar Eldarov.
His first foals averaged €6,940 which dipped to an average of €5,571 for his second crop. The best price for a foal by Galileo Chrome remains the €22,000 achieved by Russellstown Stud’s half-brother to Hurricane Georgie at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale in 2022.
Riverside Stud bought the half-brother to the Midlands National winner.
The third crop of foals improved the sale average again, up to €8,000 in 2024.
Eddie O’Grady went to €25,000 for the half-brother to Al Riffa at the 2024 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.
None of his four fourth crop were offered for sale as foals in 2025.
His first crop of store horses sold last year for an average of €23,357 with the top price of €36,000 at the Goffs Arkle Sale.
That was for Rathmore Stud’s half-brother to the Grade 2-placed hurdler The Nutcracker and he was bought by Highflyer Bloodstock for Mel Rowley.
Frankel-Gale Force (Shirocco)
Grange Stud
€5,000
Year to stud: 2024
The three-time Group 1 winner Hurricane Lane has his first yearlings this year with his second crop foals making an appearance in studs this spring.
By the outstanding Frankel, and the Classic winner hails from a talented, middle-distance family.
He is out of Gale Force by Shirocco, himself a NH influence. She achieved a BHA rating as high as 96 after she put together a career that included three victories over 1m7f to two miles, the best of which came on her last start when she won the Listed Prix Denisy at Saint-Cloud.
She is a half-sister to Seal Of Approval (Authorized), winner of the 1m4f British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes (G1),
and to Instance (Invincible Spirit), third in the Group 3 7f Oak Tree Stakes and dam of Sound Angela, a winner over a mile in 2022 and runner-up in December over 1m1f in Deauville’s Prix Petite Etoile. She finished second five times at Listed level in races run over trips from a mile to 1m4f.
Hurricane Lane’s own siblings include Sweet William, a son of Sea The Stars who has twice won the Doncaster Cup (G2) and Henry II Stakes (G3) and been twice placed in the Goodwood Cup as well as finishing second in the Ascot Gold Cup (both G1)
His full-sister Frankel’s Storm achieved a BHA best of 95 wining over a mile and 1m4f, earning blacktype when second at Listed level in Germany.
Hurricane Lane was bought by Godolphin at the yearling sales for 200,000gns and won his two-year-old maiden in the autumn over a mile on heavy ground.
As a three-year-old he won his first two starts, including the 1m2f Dante Stakes (G2) and went to the Epsom Derby (G1) to finish a good third behind Adayar and Mojo Star despite losing both of his front shoes.
He went two places better at The Curragh beating Lone Eagle and followed up in France in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris where he beat the Aiden O’Brientrained Wordsworth and William Haggas’s subsequent Group 1 winner Alenquer.
The 1m6f St Leger was an obvious target and the son of Frankel made good that aim finishing ahead of Mojo Star by a comfortable two and a half lengths.
A return trip to France saw him run a fantastic race to take third in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe behind Torquator Tasso and Tarnawa and ahead of Adayar. He finished best of the threeyear-olds – despite racing freely he put in the second-fastest section of the race in the penultimate furlong.
He only ran twice at four with a best effort first time out when third to Broome in the Hardwicke Stakes (G2).
At five, he won the Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes over 1m4f and was retired after the Coronation Cup (G1) at Epsom.
In his first season at stud he covered a whopping 236 mares and has a reported 140 yearlings on the ground.
They averaged €16,125 as foals with two selling for figures in excess of €50,000.
Top price was at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale where Kevin Ross, on behalf of George Case, went to €68,000 for Yellowford and Drumlin’s grandson of multiple Grade 1 winner Asian Maze.
Knockacool Stables purchased Ballincurrig House Stud’s half-brother to multiple graded-winning hurdler Zanahiyr for €55,000 at the Goffs December NH Sale.
Adlerflug-Iota (Tiger Hill)
Beeches Stud
€3,000
Year to stud: 2022
The talented son of the influential Adlerflug has his first crop of stores this
In Swoop’s sire Adlerflug was sadly lost as a 17-year-old as he was starting to make a real mark, but In Swoop boasts a cracking German-produced pedigree
year, the age at which he himself began his racing career. In Swoop made his three-year-old debut a winning one over 1m3f in May at Lyon Parilly. He was sent off race favourite so had not been hiding his talent in his home work.
He was stepped up quickly to Group 2 company in the Prix Greffulhe over the same course and distance and finished just a length and a quarter behind the race winner, despite lacking a bit of room in the last furlong.
Connections maintained their ambitious approach and he ran in the Grade 1 Deutsches Derby, which he won by three-quarters of a length.
It is a race that with the benefit of hindsight that looks amazingly strong – in second was the subsequent 2021 Arc winner Torquator Tasso (also by Adlerflug), third (but disqualified) was Grocer Jack, the multiple Grade 1 and Grade 2 winner, who was sold for a sale-topping 700,000gns at 2021’s Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale.
In Swoop then finished second to Mogul in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1) and filled the same position, putting in his most memorable performance, when a neck runner-up to Sottsass in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
An Arc challenge was firmly on the cards as a four-year-old, and his early runs in 2021 looked as though he had retained all of his ability – he won the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville, the Grade 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly and then finished fourth in the Grade 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud. Sadly, that was to be the last race in the horse’s career as injury intervened.
In Swoop’s sire Adlerflug was sadly lost as a 17-year-old as he was starting to make a real mark, but his son boasts a cracking German-produced pedigree.
He is out of the Preis der Diana (G1)
winner Iota and is a full-brother to Ito, the German champion, winner of the Grosser Preis von Bayern (G1) and also a multiple Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed.
In addition to In Swoop, Adlerflug’s leading performers include the aforementioned Torquator Tasso and Ito, the multiple Group 1 winner Iquitos, successful in the Grosser Preis Von Baden (G1) and sire of Deutsches Derby runnerup Mr Hollywood in his first crop, the Grosser Dallmayr Preis-Bayerisches Zuchtrennen (G1) winner Mendocino, and the Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) winner Alenquer.
In Swoop is also a half-brother to the Group 3 winner Igraine (Galileo) and their second dam Iora (Konigsstuhl) is dam of the Group 3 winner Illo (Tertullian), Ioannina, a Listed winner and Group 1 third who is the dam of Auteuil Grade 3 winner Izzo, and to Iowa, dam of the Group 2 winner Itoba (Areion).
It is also the further family of Iran, the top-rated German miler of 2009, and Iberus, the third top-rated German twoyear-old of 2000.
There are 111 three-year-olds in In Swoop’s first crop and they averaged €11,119 at the sales. The most expensive of them was a colt out of the unraced Milan mare Castlevennon, from the family of Ballyadam.
He was sold by Daniel Doran to Sid Bloodstock for €28,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.
In Swoop’s second crop contains 116 two-year-olds and at the sales they averaged €9,700 with the top price of €30,000 for The Beeches Stud’s colt out of Regal Girl, a Yeats half-sister to Binocular, who was bought by Richard Rohan at Goffs December National Hunt Sale.
Numbers dropped in his third season at
stud and he has 24 yearlings registered. They averaged €8,500 at the foal sales with the highest price of €14,000 coming at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale, where Matt Coleman swooped for Walshtown Stables’ half-sister to Graded performers Kildisart, The Big Breakaway and Say Goodbye.
In Swoop has had a winner over 1m2f at Fontainebleu – Salitos who had finished second on his debut at Chantilly.
Galiway-Kendam (Kendargent)
Coolagown Stud
€3,000
Year to stud: 2024
Kenway is a complete Haras de CollevilleGuy Pariente homebred – the stallion by the breeder’s super sire Galiway, whom Pariente has produced so well mimicking his development of Kendargent, who retired to Colleville in 2010 when he stood
at a fee of just €1,000. He has scaled the heights as a sire and dam sire, and is in fact the sire of Kenway’s own dam, Kendam.
Galiway, sire of the Group 1 winners Sealiway and Sunway on the Flat, has bred the multiple Grade 1 jumps winners Gala Marceau and Vauban, as well as three Listed winners over hurdles in France. He now stands at a fee of €30,000 having started out at €3,000.
Kenway was trained by Philip Decouz and ran 38 times for six wins. He ran seven times as a juvenile gathering Listed and Group 3 success over 7f, and ran over the same trip and over a mile at three for a couple of Group 3 placings, but no win until the autumn when he won on the All-Weather at Deauville in October over 1m1f. He then rounded the year off with victory at Listed level over 7f.
His Listed success at four came in April
and he collected four more stakes placed results, including at Group 3 level over 1m2f.
He went onto run another ten times between February 2022 and March 2023, but failed to make much of an impression. He was a sound and consistent racehorse who acted on good and good to soft going.
In his first season at stud he received 71 mares and three of his first crop have made an appearance at the sales.
Free Eagle-Thermopylae (Tenby)
Lacken Stud
€2,000
Year to stud: 2022
Runner-up to Serpentine in the 2020 Derby, Khalifa Sat comes from a high-class staying family.
The son of Free Eagle is a threeparts brother to Unsung Heroine (High Chaparral), who won the Give Thanks Stakes (G3) and was second in the St Leger. He is also a half-brother to Ghostmilk (Golan), who was Listed-placed in Australia. They are out of Thermopylae, a Tenby full-sister to the Listed Singapore Gold Cup winner Carry The Flag and a half-sister to the Gran Premio di Milano (G1), the Hardwicke Stakes (G2), the Princess of Wales’s and John Porter Stakes (G3) winner Posidonas.
Thermopylae is also a half-sister to Nomothetis, the dam of Italian 2,000 Guineas winner Spirit Of Desert and second dam of the Minstrel Stakes and the Somerville Tattersalls Stakes winner Larchmont Lad.
Khalifa Sat’s second dam Tamassos is a half-sister to the Juddmonte International winner and Coronation Cup second Ile De Chypre and to the classy hurdler Halkopous, who won the Fighting Fifth, the Bula Hurdle and the West Yorkshire Hurdle for Venetia Williams.
Khalifa Sat was bred by Declan Phelan and the Irish National Stud and sold for €20,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale. As a yearling he made €40,000 at Goffs Orby to Andrew Balding, who trained him
for Ahmad Al Shaikh.
Khalifa Sat ran twice at two winning his maiden over 1m2f at Goodwood on his second start. At three he came out and won the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes on his seasonal reappearance before his Epsom second spot.
Khalifa Sat had one more run when behind Mogul in the Gordon Stakes (G3).
He is inbred 4S x 5S x 5D x 4D to Northern Dancer through Sadler’s Wells, Danzig, Nijinsky and the aforementioned Dance In Time and also has Mill Reef 6S x 5D.
His first crop are three-year-olds this year and there are 29 of them. At the foal sales they averaged €4,500 and the best price was achieved at the Goffs November Foal Sale where Pipe View Stud sold a colt out of the Daylami mare My Silver Bullet for €8,500 to Khalifa Sat’s racing owner Ahmad Al Shaikh.
A member of his second crop is the most expensive foal by Khalifa Sat; Lacken Stud sold a colt out of April’s Moon who is a winning half-sister to Black Up for €15,000 to Mossy Fen Stables at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.
The average price of his third crop of foals grew considerably increasing to €15,000 and there are 19 yearlings by him on the ground, with 14 two-year-olds.
Camelot-Attire (Danehill Dancer)
The Beeches Stud
€6,000
Year to stud: 2025
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, crowned champion sire in each of the last two NH seasons.
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 as a juvenile and then won the Beresford Stakes (G2).
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-yearold, Luxembourg extended his record of winning at the highest level in every season when successful in the Coronation Cup.
He retired 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. He saw 262 mares in his first covering season.
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 in 2024. Now a three-year-old, she is named Maldives and the unraced filly holds an entry in the Irish Oaks.
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. Attire is also a half-sister to the Midlands National winner Big Occasion by Sadler’s Wells.
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 Aquarelliste, the Grade 1 Clement L Hirsch and the Grade 1 Charles Whittington Memorial Handicap winner Artiste Royal and the Australian Listed winner Annenkov, all by Danehill.
New Approach-Halla Na Saoire (Teofilo) Anngrove Stud
Private
Year to stud: 2024
Mac Swiney’s early stud career has already been one of transition – the son of New Approach was initially retired to stand at the Irish National Stud, but just weeks later it was announced that he was on the move to Alistair Pim’s Anngrove Stud with his fee swapped to private from €8,000.
Mac Swiney also nearly had the unique distinction career of becoming the first Classic winner subsequently sold at a UK or Irish online auction when offered by Goffs in January 2023, but he was bought back then by his trainer Jim Bolger.
Bolger citing then he wanted the horse to stay in Ireland as he had a dozen mares he would like to send to him, and in this early second phase of Mac Swiney’s career the trainer has continued to say that he will support the stallion.
And Mac Swiney is Bolger-bred through
and through – he produced dam Halla Na Saoire, her sire Teofilo and Halla Na Saoire’s own dam Siamsa. New Approach himself was trained by the master of Glebe House racking up an unbeaten juvenile career record winning two Group 1s and then the Epsom Derby at three.
Mac Swiney raced six times at two years and improved on his debut fifth placing to record his first win in a Curragh maiden in July over 7f.
Pitched into stakes company next time out in Leopardstown’s Group 3 Tyros Stakes in a strong field that included Group 1 winners Van Gogh and State Of Rest. He reappeared that same month winning the Group 2 Futurity Stakes over 7f at The Curragh in August staying on strongly at the finish and exacting revenge on the unplaced Van Gogh.
His final two juvenile starts were both Group 1 races – the first of those was the National Stakes at The Curragh won by Thunder Moon with Mac Swiney hampered a furlong out and finished down the field.
The second was a victorious one when, sent to Doncaster for the Futurity Stakes over a mile, he kept on well beating Godolphin’s One Ruler with Baradar further back in third.
At three, Mac Swiney raced eight times, six times at Group 1 level, but he kicked off his season in Leopardstown’s Group 3 Derby trial finishing fourth to subsequent Epsom Derby favourite Bolshoi Ballet (Galileo).
Despite staying on over the 1m2f his trainer decided to drop him back to a mile for his next start in the Irish 2,000 Guineas.
He was rewarded handsomely as Mac Swiney made all and held off the fellow Bolger-bred and trained Poetic Flare, winner of the English equivalent and subsequent St James’s Palace Stakes (G1), the pair clear of Irish National Stud’s sire Lucky Vega who was 3l back in third.
Mac Swiney was then sent to Epsom for the Derby and ran a creditable race finishing fourth to Adayar before a sixth place behind Hurricane Lane in the Irish version.
His next two starts saw him unplaced in both the International at York and the Boomerang Mile, but he returned in good style on British Champions Day when third to Sealiway with Mishriff, Adayar, Addeybb and Al Aasy behind in the Champion Stakes (G1).
Mac Swiney raced three times as a fouryear-old and his best placing was fourth to Aikhal in the Group 3 International Stakes at The Curragh over 1m2f. He retired the winner of four races and £624,697.
Mac Swiney’s unraced dam Halla Na Saoire has produced one other winner –named Slaney Street who was trained by Bolger to win two races at two and three years.
Her dam Siamsa (Quest For Fame) also won two races for Glebe House and the best of her three winners was Light Heavy (Teofilo), who won three races at three years, including the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (G2), the 1m2f Ballysax Stakes (G3) and he was also third in the Irish Derby (G1).
Siamsa’s Montjeu daughter Halla Siamsa is dam of five winners the best of whom was the Bolger-trained Parish Hall (Teofilo), joint-third top rated twoyear-old colt in Europe in 2011, winner of £428,631 and six races, including the Dewhurst Stakes (G1).
Mac Swiney is in-bred to Galileo who is his grand-sire (as the sire of New Approach) and great grand-sire via Teofilo, the sire of Halla Na Saoire. This rules out such options for breeders.
However, there is no Danehill, Danzig, Green Desert, Kingmambo, Mr. Propsector or Pivotal in the bloodline, which opens up alternative plans for NH breeders with any mares from those lines.
His first crop are yearlings of 2026 and number 28. Two of them were offered for sale at Tattersalls Ireland last year with Sunnyhill Stud earning €7,000 for their colt out of Frankly’s Last, a Court Cave half-sister to the Graded-winning chasers Pairofbrowneyes and Master Of The Hall, at the November NH Sale, bought by Bay View Cottage. At the Sapphire Sale the Irish National Stud sold a filly out of the
winning Dream Ahead mare Twenty Times to Nicholas Duggan for €5,000.
Sea The Stars-Aiglonne (Silver Hawk) Knockmullen Stud
€2,500
Year to stud: 2019 (transferred to Ireland from France in 2023)
Having started his stud career under his owner’s banner at Haras de Bouquetot, the Group 1 winner Mekhtaal is in his fourth season at stud in Ireland at Knockmullen House Stud.
A €300,000 Arqana August yearling sold by joint-breeder Haras du Mezeray to Mandore International, the son of Sea The Stars has both the pedigree and race record to succeed and is an attractively-priced addition to Ireland’s young NH sires ranks.
Mekhtaal made a successful debut for trainer Jean-Claude Rouget when winning an early season 1m2f maiden at SaintCloud in March as a three-year-old.
Returned to the track a month later he placed second to Lascar in a MaisonsLaffitte conditions race over the same distance before heading to Deauville in May where he comfortably won the Prix Hocquart (G2), making all to land the 1m2f contest.
That run was good enough for him to take his place in the Jockey-Club but he was never put into the race and finished midfield behind champion Almanzor.
Kept busy by his trainer he contested another Group 1 in July when fourth to Helene Charisma in the Grand Prix de Paris having met trouble in running. He was to have one further run at three when second to Sky Kingdom in the Prix du Prince d’Orange (G3) back at Maisons-Laffitte.
Kept in training at four he kicked off his campaign with a fine second placing to Cloth Of Stars in the Group 2 Prix Harcourt prior to his career highlight next time out – dropping back to 1m1f he won the Prix d’Ispahan (G1) with sire-sensation Zarak down the field.
He failed to win through the remainder of the season but was transferred to the US
and trainer Graham Motion for two runs as a five-year-old, finishing runner-up on both occasions, in the Grade 2 Nijinsky Stakes at Woodbine then just missing out to Johnny Bear in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Stakes at the same track.
Mekhtaal is out of the 1997-born Silver Hawk mare Aiglonne. She won four races between 1m2f and 1m4f, including the Prix Fille De L’Air (G3), the Listed Prix Panacee and was also third in the Group 3 Orchid Handicap.
She is dam of 11 winners; in addition to Mekhtaal, her other black-type horses include the dual Group 3 winner Aigue Marine (Galileo), Normandy Bridge (Le Havre), winner of the Group 3 Prix Thomas Bryon, Prix Hocquart (G2) winner Democrat (Dalakhani) and Apophis (Rainbow Quest), who was third at Listed level.
Mekhtaal is from the family of White Muzzle, Fair Question and Elfaslah. His best performer to date is Francois
Nicolle’s four-year-old gelding Duc De Roche, who won a Listed chase at Auteuil in December, having been runner-up in a Grade 2 at the track on his previous start.
Frankel-Heat Haze (Green Desert)
Capital Stud
€3,500
Year to stud: 2022
Mirage Dancer hails from the amazing Juddmonte family of Hasili being out of her daughter, the dual US Grade 1 winner Heat Haze (Green Desert), a close sister to two-time Grade 1 winner Intercontinental, Cacique, also a dual Grade 1 winner, Champs Elysees, a three-time Grade 1 winner, who was developing into a NH sire until his untimely death, as well as the champion Banks Hill, the leading sire Dansili and the Grade 3 winner Delux. He is already off the mark and his first runner Nenette For Ever, who is out of a
mare by Saddler Maker, won first time out in a Fontainebleu maiden hurdle.
Mirage Dancer ran 40 times and was with Sir Michael Stoute in Europe for whom he won on his sole start as a juvenile. At three, he collected placed results in the 1m2f Hampton Court Stakes (G3) and the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes.
In the May of his four-year-old season, he won at Listed level over 1m4f at Goodwood before a good second to Best Solution in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes (G2) and then won the 1m4f Group 3 Glorious Stakes from Red Verdon.
As a five-year-old in 2019 he continued to run to placed efforts in Group company before the decision was made to send him Down Under for a Melbourne Cup tilt.
He kicked off with a third placing in the 1m4f Group 1 Caulfield Cup before finishing mid-division in the big Group 1 in November.
He remained in Australia, put in some good placed efforts over middledistance trips before gaining victory in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) in October 2020. He ran in 14 further Group and stakes races until his last start in October 2021.
His first crop of 88 achieved an average of €13,413 with the most expensive a filly out of Bonbonniere, a Martaline half-sister to Irish Grand National winner Burrows Saint.
She was bought by Kevin Ross from Mountain View Stud at Tattersalls Ireland.
His second crop of 113 foals averaged €14,684 at the sales headed by Ashwood Stud’s colt out of Pat’s Oscar, who changed hands for €44,000 at the Goffs December National Hunt Sale.
Mirage Dancer’s third crop is his smallest at 73 and they averaged €11,118 at the foal sales.
The Bleahen brothers purchased the most expensive member of that crop when spending €33,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale on Lacken Stud’s half-brother to the Grade 2-placed Destination Dubai.
Sea The Stars-Galley (Zamindar)
Whytemount Stud
€3,000
Yeat to stud: 2024
A member of the burgeoning Amo Racing stallion collection Mojo Star, a son of Sea The Stars from Juddmonte’s family of Rail Link, is in his third season at Whytemount Stud.
Mojo Star raced nine times across four seasons winning one race and finishing second five times.
The Richard Hannon-trained colt made one start at two years in an October Newbury maiden over a mile, losing out by just a nose at the line.
Back at Newbury in May he once again took second this time this time over 1m2f behind Manobar.
It was a slight surprise to see him line up for the Epsom Derby next time when he was sent off at 50/1, but the colt raised his game to a whole new level beating all bar Adayar at the line.
Held up in rear, he made good headway 3f out, went second over a furlong from home and stayed on in the final 100yds to finish 4l behind Adayar and with Hurricane Lane 3l back in third, and that was despite being struck into through the race.
Sent to The Curragh for the Irish Derby he finished fifth behind Hurricane Lane, never landing a blow.
Mojo Star broke his maiden next time out when, back at favoured Newbury in August, he was a comfortable winner over 1m4f.
Connections still believed they had a Classic horse and Mojo Star was allowed to take his chance in the St Leger.
Once again he ran with immense credit, staying on all the way to the line to be beaten just 2l by old adversary Hurricane Lane.
His last start in 2021 came in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe when tenth.
Mojo Star was kept in training at four and made just one start. And what a race it was – in a thrilling finish to the Ascot Gold Cup he narrowly lost out to Kyprios
with perennial champion Stradivarius in third.
Mojo Star is out of the Zamindar mare Galley, one of Juddmonte’s lesser-lights on the racecourse and placed three times at three years in France.
She has been, however, far much more successful in the breeding shed producing four winners.
In addition to Mojo Star, her other black-type horses are Cape Magic (Cape Cross) winner of a Listed race in Italy and Portage (Teofilo) who took a Listed race at The Curragh.
Galley’s placed Zoffany daughter Celeste de la Mere is the dam of the Group-placed Maritime Wings (Gleneagles) and Tio Mio (Teofilo), a Listed-placed hurdler.
His second dam Dockage bred 11 winners from 13 runners, including the July Stakes (G3) scorer Wharf, the Listed winner Mooring, and Docklands, who won five races in France.
She is better known as the dam of French champion three-year-old and Arc winner Rail Link.
Mojo Star has 43 yearlings in his first crop who averaged €4,167 as foals.
Dubawi-Indian Petal (Singspiel)
Glenview Stud POA
Year to stud: 2021
Old Persian is a Group 1-winning son of Dubawi from one of the greatest families to have raced over the past 40 years.
Old Persian’s dam-sire is Singspiel, a Group 1-winning son of In The Wings who is no stranger to NH breeders and those producing top-class middle-distance horses and stayers on the Flat.
In The Wings himself sired triple Grade 1 Stayers’ Hurdle hero Inglis Drever, while his son Winged Love produced the dual Tingle Creek winner Twist Magic. Singspiel is the sire of Irving, who won two renewals of the Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle, and the Grade 2 winners Junior and Prima Vista.
The In The Wings’ sire line has excelled in Germany where his son Soldier Hollow, sire of Grade 1-winning hurdlers Arctic Fire and Saldier, is the outstanding stallion.
His dominance was challenged by another son of In The Wings in the late
Adlerflug, who was German champion sire in 2020 with his son In Swoop claiming the Deutsches Derby and running Sottsass very close in the Arc. Torquator Tasso, who was second to In Swoop in the Deutsches Derby went on to win the 2021 Arc for Alderflug.
Old Persian’s female family traces back to Pasadoble, his fourth dam who was a Listed winner in France but excelled as a broodmare, foaling the champion racemare and broodmare Miesque to Nureyev.
At stud, Miesque produced the Group 1 winner and top-class sire Kingmambo, the triple Group 1 winner East Of The Moon.
Miesque is also the second dam of the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner and young sire Study Of Man (Deep Impact).
Now a ten-year-old, Old Persian is a Darley homebred who was third on debut at two and won his next two starts, both over mile, that season.
At three, he progressed from victory in a 1m2f handicap at Newmarket to winning the Listed Fairway Stakes over course and distance before emulating his relative Permian with victory in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot.
He added the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes in which he defeated Group 1 winners Kew Gardens and Cross Counter before finishing fifth in the St Leger itself.
Shipped to Dubai he began his four-year-old season with success in the Group 2 Dubai City Of Gold Stakes before making the breakthrough at Group 1 level in the Dubai Sheema Classic over the Japanese-trained Cheval Grand and Suave Richard with Hunting Horn and Magic Wand in fourth and fifth.
Back in Europe he was a narrow third in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin behind French King before Canadian success in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes over 1m4f. He made two starts at five in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud won by Way To Paris and the Group 2 Princess Of Wales’s Stakes.
Old Persian has 112 four-year-olds in his first crop with 101 three-year-olds, 75 two-year-olds and 49 yearlings.
His foals averaged €9,625 in 2022 with a top price at the Tattersalls November NH Sale of €47,000 given by Gerry Hogan Bloodstock for a colt sold by Ballincurrig House Stud out of a Westerner half-sister to The Big Bite and from the family of Cooldine.
Old Persian ’s average crept up to €10,071 in 2023 and, again, the best price was at Tattersalls Ireland. Kevin Ross Bloodstock paid €60,000 for an Old Persian half-brother to the Grade 1 Supreme Novices Hurdle winner Slade Steel consigned by Ballincurrig House Stud.
The foal sale average for his third crop was the lowest of the three, coming in at €7,750 but on the back of some good results at the store sales, his fourth crop foal sale average improved to €9,400.
His first stores made an average price of €24,173 and the best price came at the Goffs Arkle Sale where Paurick O’Connor purchased a gelding out of Dear Songbird from Rathbarry Stud for €88,000.
Already his first crop has returned a six-figure sale for a point-to-pointer as Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins spent £105,000 on Persian Palace at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale. The
gelding was third on debut at Knockanard for Paul Cashman.
Galileo-Another Storm (Gone West)
Castle Hyde Stud
€5,000
Year to stud: 2019
The first crop of the Ascot Gold Cup winner set sales rings ablaze from the start and that was repeated when Mighty Bandit, who won a juvenile hurdle at Punchestown to become his sire’s first winner over hurdles, made €420,000 at the Caldwell Construction Dispersal at Tattersalls Ireland last year.
The gelding is now running over fences and is on a run of three consecutive handicap chase wins from December 25 to February 26.
Tessa Greatrex of Highflyer was buying on behalf of owners Jim and Claire Bryce, and then, for the same connections, purchased the point-to-point winner Buckna for £350,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale reporting then (in a rainy winners’ enclosure at Cheltenham) that she liked what she was seeing of the stallion’s stock.
The most expensive of Order Of St George’s foals to sell so far has been Ballyreddin Stud’s half-brother to the Listed bumper winner Tetlami, who made €90,000 to Mags O’Toole on behalf of Aiden Murphy at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale 2020.
That colt was one of four by the sire to sell for more than €50,000 at the 2020 Tattersalls Ireland NH Foal Sale.
At the Tattersalls Ireland NH November Sale in 2021, his top price of €58,000 was given by Alan Harte Bloodstock for Ballyreddin Stud’s half-brother to Labaik.
The price was matched by Glenvale Stud, which bought the half-brother to Mister Blue Sky, while Henrietta Knight went to €52,000 for Limekiln Stud’s colt from the cracking family of Offshore Account, The Listener, Yorkhill and Gallant Oscar.
At Goffs December NH Sale in 2022, Cottage Bloodstock spent €58,000 on a colt out of the Astarabad mare Asta Belle at the Goffs December NH Sale.
Order Of St George’s most expensive filly foal in 2022 was the daughter of Colleen Donnoige (Beneficial) bought by Rathmore Stud for €40,000 at Goffs.
Order Of St George’s foals averaged €15,825 in 2022 which dipped to €14,194 while his three-year-olds averaged €29,599 at the 2023 store sales. That figure increased to €32,680 in 2024 but last year was back down to €26,310. His 2025 foal sale average was down to €14,000 from €17,912 in 2024.
His best performer so far is Paddy Twomey’s Grade 2 and Listed bumper winner Seo Linn, from the sire’s first crop. Now a six-year-old, and a winner on the Flat, she brought 260,000gns Western Harbour International at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale last year.
Over jumps, he is also the sire of The Blue Room, who was runner-up in the Grade 2 Winter Novices’ Hurdle at Sandown this season.
He has had two black-type performers this season, one of which is the Kempton Grade 3 winner Lookaway, and 32 winners at a 24 per cent strike-rate.
As well as large numbers of mares covered – in 2020, Order Of St George had 167 foals born, 137 in 2021, 200 in 2022, 172 in 2023, 136 in 2024 and 182 last yearthe sire has attracted high-class mares in his early seasons at stud.
As a racehorse, Order Of St George was from the top drawer – his second victory in the Irish St Leger was hailed on these pages as one of the greatest staying performances of modern times.
That was the third of his three Group 1 victories having won his first Irish St Leger by 11l and the Ascot Gold Cup by 3l.
Despite having the stamina to win and finish second in the 2m4f Ascot Gold Cup, he also had speed and played his part in the unprecedented clean sweep of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for his sire Galileo and trainer Aidan O’Brien, finishing third to Found and Highland Reel who were both Group winners over shorter trips.
He was also fourth to Enable the following year, ahead of the Group 1 winners including Brametot, Iquitos, Winter, Zarak, Seventh Heaven and Capri.
Order Of St George was a tough and sound horse who demonstrated remarkable consistency to only once finish outside the first four in 25 starts over four seasons.
His overall record reads 13 wins of which 11 came in stakes races, six seconds and a third.
His pedigree marks him out as
something special, coming from an excellent female line.
He is one of six foals out of Another Storm to earn black-type – the others include the Grade 3 winner Angel Terrace, Asperity, the winner of the Group 3 Prix Paul Moussac, and the Listed winner Sehoy.
Another Storm is daughter of Gone West and Storm Song, the US champion twoyear-old filly of 1996.
Poet’s Voice-Whirly Bird (Nashwan) Boardsmill Stud
€6,000
Year to stud: 2019 (2020 to Boardsmill)
Poet’s Word began his stallion career at Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud in Norfolk before his switch to the Flood family’s Boardsmill Stud in 2020 after just one season as a Flat stallion. The change from Flat to NH made a marked difference to his book size,
indicative of the disappointing shift away from high-class middle-distance horses on the Flat.
His first Irish-born crop of Boardsmill foals numbers 196 and they made an instant impact on the track, in the sales ring and on the point-to-point field. There are four black-type performers from 25 winners in that crop, headed by Oh My Word who was successful in the Listed Future Champions’ Bumper at Navan in December.
His first point-to-point winner Taurus Bay made £155,000 to Ben Pauling having won a four-year-old maiden on debut for Denis Murphy and, carrying the colours of Harry Redknapp, the gelding has won twice over hurdles before finishing second in the Grade 2 Classic Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham in January.
Poet’s Word offers a different sireline; he is a grandson of the brilliant Dubawi, who has worked to great effect with Galileo mares to produce top class racehorses, including the champion sire Night Of Thunder.
With all of these pedigree pointers, without even looking at his own female family and his race record, it’s easy to see why he attracted such large books of NH mares in Ireland.
That female family is top notch – he is out of the Nashwan mare Whirly Bird, who was third in the Listed Harvest Stakes and is also the dam of Malabar by Raven’s Pass, who won the Prestige Stakes and the Thoroughbred Stakes, both Group 3 contests at Goodwood, and was fourth in three Group 1 races, including the 1,000 Guineas.
She is also the second dam of Beckford, who won the Group 2 Railway Stakes at two and was second in the both the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and National Stakes (G1).
Whirly Bird is a half-sister to Ursa Major (Galileo), a Group 3 winner who was also fourth in the St Leger. Her Sadler’s Wells half-sister Inchiri won the Listed Galtres Stakes and is the dam of South African Group 3 winner Hawk’s Eye. Inchberry, a Barathea half-sister to Whirly Bird,
– he has had 42 NH winners from those crops
was fourth in the Oaks and is the dam of Australian Group 3 winner Divine Unicorn.
Second dam Inchyre is a half-sister to Inchinor, who was putting together a good stud career prior to his early death. Inchyre is also a half-sister to the Listed winners
Incheni and Ingozi, the latter is the dam of Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes winner Miss Keller and the second dam of Harbour Law.
Ingozi’s daughter Oshiponga is the dam of the Group 2 and 3 winners Hatta Fort, Spirit Of Appin and Blue Bayou and the second dam of Group 3 winners War Story and Agent Murphy, who was also second in the Group 1 Irish St Leger.
Poet’s Word is a son of Poet’s Voice, who was a classy miler and won the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over that trip at three. He also won the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at two and the Celebration Mile, also a Group 2, as a three-year-old.
At four, he was second in the 1m2f Group 2 Jebel Hatta and third in the Joel Stakes. He died at the age of 11 and Poet’s
Word is the best of his runners.
Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Poet’s Word had a profile typical of his trainer’s classy middle-distance horses.
Bought for €300,000 as a yearling, he ran once at two and moved up through the ranks at three. He ran five times during his three-year-old season, winning a 1m2f maiden and an 1m3f handicap as well as recording a second place finish in a 1m2f 0-105 handicap at Doncaster’s St Leger meeting, which earned him a rating of 104.
At four, he began with victory in another handicap before his first try at stakes level resulted in second to Deauville in the Group 3 Huxley Stakes.
Stepped up to 1m4f for the Group 3 Glorious Stakes, he made the breakthrough to win comfortably before an impressive brace of second places in his first two runs in Group 1 company behind Decorated Knight in the Irish Champion Stakes and Cracksman in the Champion.
He fulfilled that promise as a five-yearold becoming one of the best middledistance performers in Europe turning
tables on the Cracksman in the Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and defeating Crystal Ocean to win the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Poet’s Word also took second in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic and he ended his career with second in York’s Group 1 International Stakes.
His first foals were well received and averaged €19,201 in 2021, which remained just about the same for 2022 at €19,401. That dropped to €15,604 for his third crop with his fourth crop averaging €14,612.
Poet’s Word was very popular at the store sales in 2024 with an average price of €31,359.
He was the sire of two six-figure lots at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.
Tom Malone and Paul Nicholls purchased the most expensive store by Poet’s Word, Galbertstown Stables’ gelding out of Lady Knightess, for €120,000, while Milestone Bloodstock went to €100,000 for the gelding out of Dinaria Des Obeaux, consigned by Ballyreddin and Busherstown.
At the Goffs Arkle Sale Ballycrystal Stables and Monbeg teamed up to buy Boardsmill Stud’s half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Benefficient for €75,000.
Those figures were eclipsed at the point-to-point sales with the impressive performances of his runners earning bigmoney transfers to leading racing yards.
There were three six-figure transactions at the Goffs Aintree Sale with Largy Go changing hands for £305,000 to O’Neill Racing from Stuart Crawford, Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins went to £135,000 for In A Sonnet sold by Tom Lacey and Ben Pauling teamed up with Jerry McGrath to acquire Dig Deep for £120,000 from Liam Kenny.
Mullins and Kirk paid £300,000 for Poetisa, a debut bumper winner at the Goffs Spring Point-to-Point Sale. Those expensive buys sandwiched their purchase of The Irish Avatar for £200,000 from Colin Bowe at the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale.
With that momentum behind him, Poet’s Word recorded a store sale average
Pyledriver ran 20 times for trainer Willie Muir and, after his winning debut as a two-year-old in July over 7f at Salisbury, ran in Pattern races in every single subsequent race of his career
of €40,379 in 2025 with four six-figure transactions at the Derby Sale and up from €31,359. Last year’s foal sale average of €19,568 was his best yet.
Poet’s Word’s three-year-olds are his biggest crop to date at 223, he has 193 two-year-olds and 143 yearlings.
Harbour Watch-La Pyle (Le Havre)
Beeches Stud
€3,500
Year to stud: 2024
An interesting pedigree proposition, Pyledrive was a winner at two who went on to score a Group 1 double in the Coronation Cup and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Pyledriver ran 20 times for trainer Willie Muir and, after his winning debut as a two-year-old in July over 7f at Salisbury, ran in Pattern races in every single subsequent race of his career.
Muir is quoted as saying; “Pyledriver is the best horse I’ve ever had anything to do with and gave us so many fantastic days. From day one he never let us down; brilliant temperament, went on any ground, clean winded and super sound.”
The Harbour Watch horse’s race record bears testament to that.
A down-the-field run as a juvenile in August in the Listed Denford Stakes was followed with success in Haydock’s Ascendant Stakes (L) over a mile with
fellow new NH sire of 2024 Subjectivist back in fourth place.
On his final start at two he was again unplaced in the Group 2 Royal Lodge with Muir stating that the colt had lost some of its strength having grown throughout the summer.
Pyledriver kicked off his three-year-old season filling the runner-up position in Kempton’s Classic Trial before winning the first of his Group races when taking the King Edward VII Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot. That was followed by an unplaced effort behind Serpentine in one of the most bizarre Derbys ever witnessed. He put that defeat behind him winning the traditional St Leger trial the Great Voltigeur at York (G2) prior to finishing third to Galileo Chrome in the Classic itself.
Kept in training at four, Pyledriver ran four times in 2021 winning twice and placed second in the other two starts.
The first of those successes was in Epsom’s Group 1 Coronation Cup in which he beat a strong field which included Al Aasy, and the Galileo full-brothers Japan and Mogul and followed that success in November that year dropping back to 1m2f to win the Listed Churchill Stakes at Lingfield.
That victory put him cherry-ripe for his next race in December at Sha Tin’s Group 1 Hong Kong Vase when he finished a brave second, only losing out to Glory Vase in the last 100yds and picking up £415,486 for his effort in the process.
Pyledriver remained in training at five and once again raced four times that season.
He progressed with each race starting off with an unplaced effort in the Neom Cup at Riyadh, was fourth to Shahryar in the Group 1 Sheema Classic at Meydan before a fine second to Hukum in the Coronation Cup (G1) prior to his second Group 1 victory beating Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Torquator Tasso at Ascot in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Pyledriver did not race again that season but returned the following year in 2023 winning the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes
CHAMPION 3YO STAYER & DUAL CLASSIC WINNER
DUAL ST LEGER WINNER
Won Gr.1 Doncaster
St Leger
Won Gr.1 Irish St Leger
Won Gr.2 Queen’s Vase
BY DUBAWI
From the family of ALPINISTA , ALBORADA, ALBANOVA, etc.
Fee: £5,000
CHAMPION 4YO STAYER & DUAL GR.1 WINNER
FIRST FOALS IN 2026
WELL BRED & CONSISTENT STAKES WINNER
WON/PLACED IN 8 STAKES RACES
BY AUSTRALIA
Half-brother to 6 Stakes horses
FIRST 2YOS
57% winners to runners
Fee: £3,000
TIMEFORM RATING 130
Won Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak
Won Gr.1 Ascot Gold Cup
Won Gr.2 Dubai Gold Cup
BY TEOFILO
Half-brother to Gr.1
St Leger runner-up
SIR RON PRIESTLEY & Gr.2 juvenile ALBA ROSE
Fee: £3,500 1st Oct SLF 1st Oct SLF
NEW TO CHAPEL STUD IN 2026
SIRE OF GR.1 WINNERS ON THE FLAT & OVER JUMPS
SIRE OF CHAMPION
STAYER TRUESHAN & GR.1 CHASE WINNER
GRAN DIOSE
Tough, sound & versatile progeny
BY DANEHILL DANCER
Fee: £4,000 1st Oct FFR 1st Oct FFR
at Royal Ascot before a fifth-placed effort behind Hukum on his final start in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1).
Pyledriver achieved an official rating of 124. His deceased sire Harbour Watch had one additional Group 1 winner in Waikuku, who won three times at Sha Tin at the highest level including victories over Golden Sixty and Beauty Generation.
Pyledriver’s dam is the 2011 Le Havre mare La Pyle, twice a winner over 1m2f and 1m3f in France. She is herself dam of four winners with Pyledriver her sole black-type horse to date.
La Pyle is a half-sister to the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris victor Mont Ormel and to Normandel, winner of the Group 3 Park Express Stakes.
Her half-sister Lillebonne is the dam of the Listed winners Seisai, Thornbrook and Magnanimous.
La Pyle is out of a Lidanna, a half-sister to the Group 1 winner and sire Linngari.
Pyledriver’s first crop of 68 are yearlings and as foals they averaged €10,700 at the sales. Top price of €20,000 was achieved at Tattersalls Ireland for The Beeches Stud’s half-brother to Grade 2-winning chaser Minella Drama.
Dubawi-Polished Gem (Danehill)
Kedrah House Stud
On Application
Year to stud: 2022
It did not really happen for Rich History on the racecourse – in five starts in Ireland for owner-breeder Moyglare Stud he failed to finish better than sixth place.
Transferred to Qatar and ownership of owner Hamad Ahmed Hassan Al Malki Al Jehani, he won twice over 1m1f and 1m2f and picked up a handful of placed efforts.
Rich History is a son of Dubawi and gained a place at stud due to his wonderful pedigree, long nurtured by Moyglare. His dam Polished Gem won at two and she has gone on to produce seven black-type winners, headed by Search For A Song (Galileo), a joint-champion European
three-year-old of 2019 and three-year-old stayer in Ireland, the accolades given after her two Irish St Leger victories.
Her closely related brother is Free Eagle, a joint-champion older horse and winner of the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1). He started out as a Flat sire at the Irish National Stud, his best runner the Epsom Derby third-placed Khalifa Sat, who is out of a mare by Tenby. He is now getting some jumpers and Coltar out of a Red Ransom mare, and See The Eagle Fly, out of a Verglas mare, are heading that division to date. He is now at Anngrove Stud.
Polished Gem is also dam of the multiple Group 2 winner Custom Cut, top-rated older mile in Ireland for 2015, Sapphire, winner of the British Champions Fillies/ Mare Stakes (G2) and dam of the Group 2-placed Kiss For A Jewel (Kingman).
Falcon Eight, her 2015 gelding by Galileo, was a Listed winner and Group 3 Loughbrown Stakes-placed and has won over hurdles.
Polished Gem is out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Trusted Partner, the dam of Dress To Thrill, winner of the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes, and of Archive Footage (Sadler’s Wells), who won three times over hurdles, including a Grade 1 at Leopardstown. She is also dam of three further hurdle winners and the dam of Indian Pace, who won the Galway Hurdle (G1).
Rich History’s third dam is the US champion Talking Picture, dam of Easy To Copy (Affirmed), a champion older stayer in Ireland in 1985.
It is also the further family of Unaccompanied, winner of the December Hurdle (G1) and the Spring Juvenile Hurdle (G1), Plinth, a Grade 2 winner over hurdles and multiple Grade 1 placed, and Heaven Help Us, runner-up in the Future Champions Novice Hurdle (G1).
The farm offered a Rich History halfbrother to Grade 2 Kelso Novices Hurdle winner Mount Mews at the Tattersalls Ireland February National Hunt Sale in 2024 and he made €14,500 to Martin Cullinane.
That remains the top price for a Rich History foal and his oldest crop will make their store sales debut this summer.
Authorized–Wadyhatta (Cape Cross)
Castle Hyde Stud
€5,000
Year to stud: 2022
Santiago’s first foals in 2023 made quite the impression at the sales averaging €17,790 and earning their sire a slight fee increase to €5,000 for 2024, a fee at which he has remained for the last two seasons.
Top of the charts was Kilbarry Lodge Stud’s colt out of Alighting, a Listedplaced Kayf Tara half-sister to the multiple Grade 1 winning chaser Don Poli. He made €65,000 to Charles Shanahan and Glenview Stud at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.
The same buyers reunited at Fairyhouse last November to land the most expensive foal from Santiago’s third crop; Mountain View Stud’s colt out of Milanese Queen for €58,000.
Ian Ferguson went to €50,000 at that auction for a colt out of J’Espere, an Oscar half-sister to J’Y’Vole, who was consigned by The Hollow Farm.
His foal sale average in 2025 was €15,227 an increase from €13,379 in 2024.
The Irish Derby winner Santiago ran three times as a juvenile, finishing second in his first two maidens until breaking his duck on September over a mile at Listowel.
In the interrupted Covid year he made his three-year-old debut a winning one in Royal Ascot’s 1m6f Group 2 Queen’s Vase before heading to The Curragh for the Irish Classic which he won by a head.
A step up to two miles at Goodwood for the Cup saw him finish a two and a quarter lengths third to Stradivarius before he concluded the year with a fourth place finish in the St Leger.
At four, he collected a fourth placing in April’s Group 3 1m6f Vintage Crop Stakes, a second placing in the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup, was down the field in the Cup at Ascot before rounding things off with a
Silverwave progeny results
good fourth to Trueshan.
His sire Derby winner Authorized, a son of Montjeu, has become a significant NH sire, whose leading performers include the dual Aintree Grand National winner Tiger Roll, the Stayers’ Hurdle (G1) winner Nichols Canyon, the talented Goshen and Zamdy Man.
Montjeu is sire of the late Fame And Glory, whose progeny are performing so well, as well as the champion sire Walk In The Park. His best so far is the Grade 1 winner Douvan and his full-brother Jonbon.
Santiago’s Galileo brother won the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes in 2023 and his Frankel half-sister La Joconde was third in the Group 1 Prix Vermeille and the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks.
His Cape Cross dam Wadyhatta is a halfsister to Motamarris (Le Havre), third in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1), to the dam of Tantheem (New Approach), winner of the Prix de Cabourg (G3), to the Listed-placed Saraaba (New Approach) and to the dam of Glounthaune (Kodiac), a Group 3 winner of the Killavullan Stakes (G3) in 2021.
Under his third dam is the Prix Jean Prat and Prix Jacques Les Marois (G1) winner Tamayuz, the Group 3 winner Nuqoosh (Machiavellian), the Listed-placed Thamarat and the dam of the Muhaarar’s Group 1 winner Eshaada.
His fourth dam is the Group 3-winning mare Allez Les Trois (River Mist), dam of
Anabaa Blue, and a daughter of Allegretta and a half-sister to Urban Sea.
Santiago has 100 three-year-olds, 117 two-year-olds and 116 yearlings. His foal sale average dropped to €13,379 for his second crop, but improved to €15,227 for his third.
Silver Frost-Miss Bio
Burgage Stud
On application
Year to stud: 2020 (2026 to Ireland)
Following the sad loss of Jukebox Jury last year for Burgage Stud and the Connolly family, they have acquired the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) winner in the hope of picking up the baton from the Montjeu stallion who will still have an enormous say in the destination of top-class NH races for the next decade.
Already the signs are good for Silverwave, who has produced the AQPS Grade 1 winner Louisa Bambou from his first crop of 50 five-year-olds. He has had 27 runners and seven winners from that cohort, which also includes the Listed Prix Calabrais Handicap Hurdle second Silver Buckle, who is out of a Monsun mare.
Silverwave’s second crop, the four-yearolds of 2026, is headed by another AQPS filly in Meleagrine, who has been third in the Grade 3 Prix Yves d’Armaille (restricted to AQPS horses).
There are three winners from that crop including Moulin Labbe who has won a juvenile hurdle for champion trainer Willie Mullins and Gigginstown House Stud.
He has 49 three-year-olds, 45 twoyear-olds and 32 yearlings.
Silverwave offers an outcross to the overwhelming majority of NH mares as he is a grandson of Coventry Stakes winner Verglas (Highest Honor) and out of River Mist mare Miss Bio.
The 14-year-old is a Silver Frost threeparts brother to the Prix Jean Prat (G1) winner Stormy River, who was placed in three more Group 1 mile contests, including the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and St James’s Palace Stakes.
He is also a three-parts brother to the Listed-placed Mary D’Or, dam of South African Group 2 winner Frosted Gold.
His Slickly half-brother Saphir River was second in the Grand Prix d’Automne Hurdle (G1) at Auteuil, while another halfbrother, the Galileo gelding Line Drummer, was Group 3-placed twice.
Their unraced dam is a half-sister to the US Grade 3 winner Fantastic Filly and to River Valentine, dam of the Listed-winning chaser Like A Storm who produced Stormy Ireland, successful in the Grade 1 Annie Power Mares’ Champion Hurdle.
The Burgage Stud team weren’t the only ones to notice Silverwave’s profile in France; last year his store sale average more than doubled from €15,000 to €33,000 with the top price of €50,000.
That came at the Goffs Arkle Sale where the powerhouse Monbeg Stables bought the Bleahens’ half-brother to the Grade 1 winner Lagunak and the Listed winner La Bombonera who is the dam of Irish Grand National winner Burrows Saint.
Jeremy-Malaica (Roi Gironde)
Kilbarry Lodge Stud
€3,000
Year to stud: 2020
Jeremy’s son Success Days could be the one to carry on his sire’s good work from Kilbarry Lodge, where he is currently
standing his seventh season. From 16 first-crop (born 2021) runners, the grey has sired four individual winners and has impressed in the sales ring, too.
Success Days was a remarkably tough and sound racehorse, who ran 30 times during the course of his six-season career.
He announced himself as a Derby contender with victories in both of Ireland’s most successful trials – the Ballysax Stakes and the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial – both 1m2f Group 3 contests but he finished down the field in the Blue Riband itself. Given a break, he came back to run in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern but ran too keenly.
At four he was unlucky to come up against the Group 1-winning mares Zhukhova and Found in his first two starts, finishing second to the former in the Listed Alleged Stakes and the later in the Group 3 Mooresbridge Stakes.
He was third to Fascinating Rock and Found in the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and then turned the tables on Fascinating Rock with victory in the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes when the future Melbourne Cup winner Moonlight Magic was third.
He ran six times at five and won the Group 2 York Stakes from Mondialiste and was placed in the Group 3 Alleged Stakes and International Stakes. He travelled to Australia in early 2018 for the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and returned to Ireland where he was second in the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes and ended the season with third in the Listed Trigo Stakes.
Kept in training as a seven-year-old, he ran five times and his best result was when third to Forest Ranger in the Group 2 Huxley Stakes at Chester.
In total, he won six races during his career, including four stakes races, and finished second or third on 11 further occasions. After his 7f win at two, all of his other victories were at around 1m2f.
Success Days was bred by Robert Ng and Dermot Farrington out of the Roi Gironde mare Malaica and trained by Ken Condon. Malaica was a classy juvenile with podium positions in the Albany Stakes and the Prix Miesque and is a half-sister to the
Success Days’ book size doubled for his second season and he has 57 foals in his second crop and his third crop is by far his largest to date at 95. He has 35 registered two-year-olds and 30 yearlings
Fort Marcy Stakes (G3) winner Olympico. His second dam Carmel is an unraced Highest Honor mare, which is where he gets his grey colouring, and she is a halfsister to the Group 1 Prix Ganay winner Execute, who was twice runner-up in that race also. She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 Grand Prix d’Evry winner Tot Ou Tard and Ing Ing, who won the Group 3 Prix Quincey. Her unraced half-sister Sissysis is the dam of French Listedwinning hurdler Magneli.
His pedigree includes three lines of Northern Dancer through Danzig, Danseur Fabuleux, who is the dam of Jeremy’s broodmare sire Arazi, and Fairy King, the full-brother to Sadler’s Wells, who is the sire of Success Day’s damsire Roi Gironde.
He also has two lines of Sharpen Up, 4 x 5, through Mira Andonde, who is the dam of Danehill Dancer, and Sharpo.
Success Days has 39 five-year-olds, including a filly out of Dona Katharina who remains the highest-priced foal by Success Days. Her price tag of €70,000 was earned at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale, where she was bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock. She is named Dona Days.
The stallion’s filly out of Ittasal fetched €52,000 when sold as a yearling at the 2022 Goffs Sportsman’s Sale to KJ Condon and RPG Bloodstock, consigned
by Rossenarra Stud. She has been named Sirene Success.
Success Days’ book size doubled for his second season and he has 57 foals in his second crop and his third crop is by far his largest to date at 95. He has 35 registered two-year-olds and 30 yearlings.
His first crop foals averaged €22,357 but his second crop realised an average of €11,430 in 2022. His top-priced foal in 2022 was the colt out of Kilbarry Angel bought for €38,000 by Stroud Coleman at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale. He was sold by Kilbarry Lodge Stud and has been named Success Story.
In 2023, his average price was €7,365 with a top price of €23,000 for a halfbrother to Robinnia out of Dreams And Songs, a placed daughter of Karello Bay. He was sold by Mountain View Stud at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.
That foal sale average climbed back to €10,875 in 2024 and his first crop of stores achieved a healthy average of €25,938 with the aforementioned Kilbarry Angel dam of the best-priced Success Days store at the Derby Sale – a €42,000 gelding bought by Kevin Ross and Ben Case.
His second representatives at the store sales returned an average price of €19,813 and a top price of €70,000 at the Goffs Arkle Sale. Ballycrystal Stables paid that for Rathmore Stud’s gelding out of Love N’Peace from the family of Bensalem and Court In Motion.
Princess Day who was bought for €37,000 by Rob James at the Tattersalls Ireland May Store Sale made €170,000 to Tom Malone at Goffs Punchestown last year having made a winning debut in a four-year-old maiden at Fairyhouse.
Success Days recorded an improved foal sale average last year at €19,000.
Danehill Dancer-Alix Road (Linamix)
Boardsmill Stud
On application
Year to stud: 2019
Sumbal’s small first numbers made an impression last year and the grey has
Average €53,261 (+11%)
Median €43,000 (+13%)
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the right pedigree influences as he is by Danehill Dancer and out of a daughter of Linamix – enormous positives for his stud career.
Sumbal was bred by Aleyrion Bloodstock and, as befits a six-figure yearling, he is a handsome looker with an attractive profile.
He was bought by David Redvers at Arqana and was trained initially by Francis-Henri Graffard for Qatar Racing.
Unraced at two, he was unbeaten in his first three starts at three, victories that included the Group 2 Prix Greffuhle before finishing fifth to New Bay in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club on his next start. He was also second in the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange that season.
As a four-year-old he was second to Garlingari in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and the Group 3 Prix Exbury, both over 1m2f and he ran twice more in France before he was switched to England and the yard of David Simcock.
His best result in England was fourth place in the 1m4f Group 3 St Simon Stakes.
He is a half-brother to the Listed Grand Prix du Nord winner Lily Passion and Lavender Lane, who was third in the Group 2 Prix de la Nonette and Group 2 Prix de Malleret.
His dam Alix Road was a three-time winner and was also second in the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris and third in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary.
She is a half-sister to the Listed Prix du Courcelles winner Fils De Viane and to Princesse de Viane, dam of Group 3 Prix de la Nonette winner Viane Rose, who is the dam of two Listed winners in Japan.
Sumbal’s pedigree is an interesting mix and although there is plenty of Northern Dancer in there - he is 5x5 to him and 5x5 to his son Lyphard - he is free from all Sadler’s Wells blood. He is also inbred 4x5 to Caro through Lettre d’Amour, second dam of Danehill Dancer, and Miss Carina the dam of Linamix’s sire Menez.
Sumbal has nine six-year-olds from his first season in France with five of them running and three winning so far.
His second crop of 22 five-year-olds from his season at Anshoon Stud has
Sumbal’s pedigree is an interesting mix and although there is plenty of Northern Dancer
– he is 5x5 to him and 5x5 to his son Lyphard –he is free from all Sadler’s Wells blood
produced one winner from eight runners so far.
His first crop conceived at Boardsmill Stud are three-year-olds and he has 70 of them with 64 two-year-olds and 45 yearlings to follow.
His foal average improved from €6,917 in 2021 to €9,200 in 2022. His top price so far is €35,000 given by Mulryan Bloodstock at Tattersalls Ireland in 2022 for the Boardsmill Stud-offered filly out of Smart Talk (Hubbly Bubbly).
Also at Fairyhouse, Marys Choice’s colt was bought by Ralahine Stud for €32,000, while at this year’s Tattersalls Ireland February Sale Boardsmill Stud purchased the colt out of the Presenting mare Kenzie.
His foal average was €8,850 in 2023 with a top price of €32,000 at the Goffs December NH Sale – Aidan O’Ryan purchased Ashmore Farm’s colt out of Humble Glory for €32,000.
Sumbal had a store sale average of €12,000 in 2023 with his first Irish-crop returning a store sale average of €7,750 in 2024. His store sale average in 2025 was much higher at €21,107 with the highlight being the €80,000 sale at the Goffs Arkle Sale of a half-brother to Rapid Escape by Boardsmill Stud to Philip Dempsey. The colt out of Mary’s Choice mentioned above made €60,000 at the Derby Sale where he was bought by Sam Curling from Peter Nolan.
That improved trade carried on to the foal sales with an average of €16,257.
Champs Elysees-Grey Way (Cozzene) Coolagown Stud
€3,500
Year to stud: 2021
The Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner offers breeders a proven outcross for the Galileo line as he is a son of the Group 1 winner Champs Elysees by Danehill.
His sire proved enormously popular with NH breeders when he moved to Coolmore’s Castle Hyde Stud from breeder Juddmonte Farms’ Banstead Manor Stud and he covered over 400 mares in the two seasons he stood there before his premature death at the age 16 in 2019.
Way To Paris was a tough, sound, cleanwinded horse, who made 35 starts over six seasons and mixed in the best company. Once-raced at two, he won a pair of Listed races at three. He ran seven times at four finishing second in the Gran Premio di Milano and the Premio Federico Tesio and third in the Gran Premio del Jockey Club, all Group events from 1m2f to 1m4f.
He was also third in the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville behind Tiberian and subsequent Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Talismanic.
He started his five-year-old season with seconds in the Group 3 Prix Exbury and when behind Waldgeist in the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville.
Way To Paris was third to Waldgeist and the Group 1 winner Dschingis Secret in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly, defeating Tiberian and Cloth Of Stars.
He was also fourth to Waldgeist, Talismanic and Cloth Of Stars in the Group 2 Prix Foy at Longchamp.
As a six-year-old he won the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Neuil at ParisLongchamp from a field that included Marmelo and Call The Wind. He was also second again to Waldgeist in the Group 2 Prix Foy and was runner-up in the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier and Group 3 Prix de Barbeville.
He started off as a seven-year-old with a narrow defeat to Shaman in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and then went down by a head to subsequent Arc winner Sottsass in
the Group 1 Prix Ganay before making the breakthrough at Group 1 level next time in the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud (G1).
Way To Paris is a half-brother to the dual Group 1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica winner Distant Way (Distant View) and the Group 3 Premio Ambrosiano winner Cima de Pluie (Singspiel).
Their dam is the Group 2 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Grey Way (Cozzene), who was champion sire in North America in 1996 and is a son of Caro.
Way To Paris has 59 four-year-olds, 61 three-year-olds and his two-year-olds are his biggest crop to date, numbering 76.
His first foals averaged €12,000 in 2022, while his second crop foal sale average was €9,000 and it dropped again for his third crop, to €7,550.
The top-priced foal from his first two crops is out of the Group 2 Golden Cygnet Novice Hurdle winner and Grade 1 Spa Novices Hurdle second Liskennett, a daughter the Listed winner and the Grade 1-placed Generosa.
Her filly made €25,000 from Coolagown Stud to Gerry Hogan at the Goffs December NH Sale in 2022, while her colt fetched
€23,000 bought by Galbertstown Stables. The highest-priced foal from his third crop was Bayview Stud’s half-brother to Home By The Lee, who was bought for €23,000 Islandavanna Bloodstock at Goffs in December.
At the store sales last year the best price fetched by progeny of the grey was at Part 2 of the Derby Sale with Jimmy Kelly going to €33,000 for Clenagh Castle Stud’s gelding out of the placed hurdler Commander Lady.
Kingman – Waldlerche (Monsun)
Knockhouse Stud
€1,500
Year to stud: 2023
As a Kingman Group 3-winning halfbrother to Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Waldgeist and from the immediate family of Masked Marvel, Waldkonig offers NH breeders an intriguing option.
Owned and bred by Newsells Park and Ammerland it was not until December of his juvenile season that he reached a racecourse when 9l successful on his debut
at Wolverhampton in a novice stakes over eight and a half furlongs.
As a three-year-old he didn’t run until June and was pitched straight into Listed company in the Newmarket Stakes, just losing second place on the line to Volkan Star, the race won by the multiple Group 1 winner and new sire for 2023 Mishriff.
Waldkonig only ran twice in 2020 and he wasn’t seen again until the following April where he comfortably won a 1m2f handicap at Pontefract.
His final racecourse appearance was also a winning one two weeks later at Sandown when he landed the Group 3 1m2f Gordon Richards Stakes beating Desert Encounter and Baaeed’s brother Hukum.
Waldkonig won or placed in his five career starts and earned an official rating of 114. His dam Waldlerche won two races at two and three in France, including the Prix Penelope at Saint-Cloud (G3) and was placed twice, one of which was at Listed level in the Honda Nereide-Rennen at Munich.
Her star son Waldgeist (Galileo) won nine times, four at Group 1 level and £4,298,560 in earnings. He began his stallion career at Ballylinch Stud before switiching to Gestuet Lunzen in Germany.
Waldlerche is also dam of Waldlied (New Approach), who won twice in France with one Group 2 success in the Prix de Malleret. Waldlied’s Kingman colt Equitize was second in a Listed contest at Aqueduct.
His second dam Waldmark was a winner at two and a subsequent runner up in the Falmouth Stakes (G2). She is the dam of Masked Marvel, winner of the St Leger and the champion European three-year-old stayer of 2011. A rising force at Haras de la Tuilere, Masked Marvel is the sire of fivetime Grade 1 winner Teahupoo and Grand Steeplechase de Paris victor Sel Jem.
One of Waldmark’s seven winners is Gifted Icon and her Hurricane Run daughter Waldfest is dam of multiple Grade 1-winning hurdler Vauban, who also landed the Group 2 Lonsdale Cup at Doncaster for Willie Mullins.
Waldkonig has 11 two-year-olds and four yearlings registered.
Stallions with two or more horses sold as NH three and four-year-olds at the major NH store sales in 2025 in Britain, Ireland and France. In Euros, compiled by Weatherbys
STALLION Sold
Affinisea (IRE) 66 1,611,750 24,420 82,000
Almanzor (FR) 2 54,000 27,000 30,000
Arrigo (GER) 3 72,500 24,167 62,000
Authorized (IRE) 2 67,000 33,500 40,000
Bande (IRE) 11 222,200 20,200 58,000
Bathyrhon (GER) 7 247,740 35,391 65,340
Beaumec de Houelle (FR) 10 362,250 36,225 105,000
Berkshire (IRE) 8 118,310 14,789 25,000
Blue Bresil (FR) 71 2,269,630 31,967 235,000
Brave Mansonnien (FR) 3
Buck’s Boum (FR) 7
Capri (IRE) 10
Choeur du Nord (FR) 8 242,610 30,326 60,000
Cloth of Stars (IRE) 4
Clovis du Berlais (FR) 2 101,940
Cokoriko (FR) 13 835,650 64,281 165,000
Court Cave (IRE) 6 65,000 10,833 27,000
Crystal Ocean (GB) 101 4,632,790
Curtain Time (IRE) 2 27,000 13,500 16,000
Dartmouth (GB) 6 28,710 4,785 12,000
Dink (FR) 2 13,000 6,500
Pastorius (GER) 2
Pillar Coral (GB) 6 41,500 6,917 20,000
Planteur (IRE) 12 178,030 14,836 33,880 Poet’s Word (IRE) 86
Tunis was the leading NH sire by store horse average price in 2025 with five sold for an average price of €93,690 and this was his highest-priced lot, the three-year-old gelding sold by Moanmore Stables to Tom Malone and Gavin Cromwell for €260,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale (Lot 370)
Table showing the covering statistics of the major Flat, NH and dual-purpose sires standing in Britain or Ireland in 2025, 15 or more mares covered. Black-type results include both NH and Flat NH*: pull-out tables NH and dual-purpose stallions only. Data from Weatherbys
NH* stallions by nos BT-winning mares
STALLION Nos
Walk In The Park (IRE) 49
Golden Horn (GB) 39
Nathaniel (IRE) 22
Poet’s Word (IRE) 20
Jukebox Jury (IRE) 18
Jeu St Eloi (FR) 16
Postponed (IRE) 16
Harzand (IRE) 14
Blue Bresil (FR) 14
Luxembourg (IRE) 11
Maxios (GB) 11
Authorized (IRE) 10
Logician (GB) 9
Hurricane Lane (IRE) 8
Cracksman (GB) 7
Crystal Ocean (GB) 6
Affinisea (IRE) 5
Stradivarius (IRE) 5
Jack Hobbs (GB) 5
Order of St George (IRE) 4
Bay, 2006, Giant’s Causeway - Helsinki (Machiavellian)
Full brother to Shamardal, sire of 25 Gr.1 winners including Casamento, Able Friend, Mukhadram and Lope De Vega
Out of an own sister to Street Cry, sire of 23 Gr.1 winners (including Winx and Zenyatta) and now Gr.1 producing sons
LIBBERTY HUNTER
Gr.1, Gr.2 and Gr.3 placed, rated 158 ONEMOREFORTHEROAD
LR winner, Gr.2 and Gr.3 placed FORTUNES MELODY
LR winner, Gr.2 and Gr.3 placed
ASLUKGOES LR winner
TIMEFORATUNE LR winner
LUCKY ZEBO LR winner
AND IN 2026...
COOLER THAN ME 2 Hurdle wins
RUBBER BALL Hurdle winner
LARGY TRAIN Chase winner
ROBYN O FAOLAIN debut P2P winner
LIBBERTY HUNTER ran a cracking race to finish second in the Gr.1 Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival
PUNCHING ABOVE HIS WEIGHT WITH SPECTACULAR RESULTS FROM SMALL CROPS
Enquiries:
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Clare Lloyd: +44 (0)7875 673260
Roger Brookhouse: +44 (0)7831 689001
Email: richard@mickleystud.co.uk www.mickleystud.co.uk
THE FIRST Turf winner of the year in Ireland was Ruler’s Control (yellow), who took of the 5f Topgear At Capital Stud Irish EBF Maiden run at The Curragh on March 15.
The two-year-old, trained by rookie trainer Jack Foley, is a son of Territories and is owned by the leading pointto-point handler Donnachadh Doyle of Monbeg Stables, Foley training from the yard.
This colt was bought at the Goffs November Sale as a foal from Galbertstown Stables by CC Bloodstock for €30,000. He is out of the unraced Dansili mare Reinette, a daughter of Etoile Montante (Miswaki), winner of the Prix de la Foret (G1) and runner-up in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1), the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1) and the Matriarch Stakes (G1). She also finished third in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1).
Territories and Dansili is a cross that has worked successfully before – Group 1 winner Regional is by the former Darley Stud sire and out of Favulusa, a daughter of Dansili.
Amo Racing’s Force Noir finished second by a head. He was the first runner for the Amo Racing-owned first-sesaon sire Persian Force, the July Stakes-winning son of Mehmas who stands at Tally-Ho Stud at a fee for 2026 of €10,000. Weatherbys currently lists 32 named two-year-olds by Perisan Force and in training yards.
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