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Wings Of Eagles colt sells to Australia as Brummitt bemoans lack of support
There was understandable excitement when 2017 Epsom Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) hero Wings Of Eagles (Pour Moi) was retired to stand at his birthplace, the Haras de Montaigu. A first Epsom winner to be bred in France since Sea-Bird (Dan Cupid) 52 years before him, Wings Of Eagles remained for just one season before... Read More
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Mehmas enters the record books with 38th European first-crop winner
Tally-Ho Stud stallion is also responsible for Group 1 hero Supremacy Mehmas (Acclamation) etched his name into the history books on Monday when the Tally-Ho Stud stallion became the most successful European first-season sire in history with 38 individual two-year-old winners. Fittingly it was Good Listener – trained by Richard Hannon, who also oversaw Mehmas’s... Read More
The Belles of Trentham continue to flourish
Haunui Farm as the venue to present the 2020 Eight Carat New Zealand Broodmare of the Year Award (sponsored by Arion Pedigrees) was highly appropriate. This year’s winner, Meleka Belle (Iffraaj), dam of Champion racemare Melody Belle (Commands), calls Haunui Farm home, at least when she is not tripping back and forth to Australia to... Read More
‘Coolmore’s Wootton Bassett coup an endorsement of Cambridge Stud sire’
Cambridge Stud yesterday welcomed news that international giant Coolmore had purchased Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj), France’s rising star stallion, in a high-priced deal that Henry Plumptre believes underlines the value of the sire line. Wootton Bassett, who has made a big impact at Haras d’Etreham despite starting from humble beginnings, is the sire of 2016 European... Read More
Coolmore pull off big coup as they buy rising stallion sensation Wootton Bassett
Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj), sire of 2016 European champion three-year-old Almanzor from his first crop, has been purchased by Coolmore from Haras d’Etreham. The news stacks up as a big deal in more ways than one – certainly, buying one of France’s top-tier stallions just as he is reaching his prime would not come cheap. “From... Read More
Godolphin to send mares to I Am Invincible
Godolphin will make the most of its champion stallions Lonhro (Octagonal) and Exceed And Excel (Danehill) by supporting the pair with as many of its high-class broodmares as possible while the aging sires are still capable of covering. Lonhro and Exceed And Excel, aged 22 and 20 respectively, continue to produce high-class racehorses and are... Read More