There is only one thoroughbred breeding operation in the world which has raced or bred the winners of the Derby, the Oaks, the 2000 Guineas, the St Leger, the Irish Derby, the Irish Oaks, the Irish 2000 Guineas, the Melbourne Cup, the Breeders’ Cup Turf, the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, the Hong Kong Derby and the Japan Cup all in the last 40 years.
Remarkably, it is not a global giant boasting hundreds of broodmares and horses in training. It is an impeccably run and uniquely successful breeding operation which extraordinarily has averaged annually only 28 mares in its rich 58 year history. It is, of course, Ballymacoll Stud.
