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I thought these snippets would go better under a dedicated heading, rather than trying to slide them into 'Departures', since although that topic does cover horses leaving racing to enter a stud career, these chaps are already well ensconced in the business. Just for interest, then:

CORMORANT, sire of 1994 Kentucky Derby winner GO FOR GIN, died of natural causes at Dr Jerry Bilinski's Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, New York, at the grand age of 33. The son of HIS MAJESTY sired 47 stakes winners, including 13 Graded stakes winners.

STORM BOOT, Crestwood Farm's 18 y.o. stallion, has been pts due to complications from chronic degenerative laminitis and tendonitis. He sired 44 North American stakes winners, more than any other stallion son of STORM CAT (who is still alive and servicing some 90+ mares at the age of 24 at Overbrook Farm).

FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND will shuttle to South America this summer, to join fellow Coolmore stallion PEINTRE CELEBRE at La Mission in Argentina.

KING'S BEST is another off to Argentina for the forthcoming southern hemisphere breeding season. This son of KINGMAMBO will stand at Haras Vacacion.

IFFRAAJ will shuttle to Haunui Stud, New Zealand for the southern hemisphere breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of NZ$12,000. This son of ZAFONIC is currently standing his first northern hemisphere season at Darley's Kildangan Stud, where he is serving a book of 150 mares. (I think he ought to take a crate or six of Guinness with him, he'll be exhausted!)

ALKHAADHEM has been bought to stand as a dual-purpose stallion at Ballycurragh Stud, Co. Carlow. He won the Jebel Hatta (G2) at Nad al-Sheba and the Select Stakes (G3) at Goodwood.

(All info courtesy of Pacemaker magazine, June 2007 issue.)
 
Thanks - good idea for a new 'comprehensive' thread, of interest to us all
 
I guess quite a lot of forumites have access to Owner & Breeder magazine, but for those who don't, and who might be interested, I may as well put up a few more recent stallion manoeuvres (April, May, June):

AP MAGIC: $2.3m yearling purchase is bought by Arrowpoint Stud for stallion duty in South Africa.

NEW SOUTH WALES: ex-John Oxx and Godolphin stayer is retired to stand at John Lynch's Windmill View Farm, Co. Galway.

AQUILEGIA: Died age 18, US Grade 2 winner and producer of BERTOLINI who resided in Middlebrook Farm, Kentucky.

SAHM: died age 13, G2 winner and sire of 64 winners, based at Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell Farm.

SUPER IMPOSE: died age 22, former Australian champion who resided at Queensland's Glenlogan Park Stud.

RORY'S JESTER: died age 25; Swettenham Stud's 1985 Golden Slipper winner and prolific sire, including G1 winners ISCA, ARAGEN and CHORTLE.

MAT-BOY: died age 28; former Argentine Horse of the Year and record-setting US Grade 1 winner at Gulfstream Park.

ROI NORMAND: died age 24, G1 winner and sire of US Eclipse Award winner RIBOLETTA.

JOHAR: Breeder's Cup Turf dead-heater will not be making his usual southern hemisphere trip from Mill Ridge Farm, Kentucky, this year.

METEOR STORM: Group 1 winner on turf in the US will stand at Haras Figeuira do Lago Stud in Brazil.

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT: Europe's leading first-season sire in 2006 will remain at the Irish National Stud rather than shuttle to Australia, as he has done since 2002.

SULAMANI: Darley's six-time Group 1 winner will shuttle to Haras Calunga, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

APTITUDE: Juddmonte's 2006 leading US second-season sire will stand at Haras Vacacion in Argentina for the southern hemisphere season.

INDESATCHEL: Classic-placed son of DANEHILL DANCER serving his first season at Bearstone Stud will stand at Riverdene Stud, Australia, this year.

They're not fools, these boys, are they? Off to Oz, South Africa, Argentina - not a lot have asked to be based in Norway, have they? :brows:
 
GRAND CENTRAL, once a strong fancy for the 2005 Derby, has been retired from racing and will take up stud duties at Summerhill Stud in South Africa
 
Oooh, lovely, thanks for that news, Gal! The darling horse deserves to be on studly duties, bless him.
 
Commander in Chief has died in Japan within the last few days; he was put down following a paddock accident in which he fractured a leg. :(
 
ROBELLINO, sire of the 2,000 Guineas winner Mister Baileys, was put down on Wednesday at Littleton Stud, Hampshire, due to the infirmities of old age. The 29-year-old son of Roberto had been retired from breeding duties last year.

Trained by Ian Balding, Robellino became a leading fancy for the 1981 Classics following wins in the Group 3 Seaton Delaval and Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes. He ended his juvenile year with a dismal showing in the William Hill Futurity, but put that behind him when a neck second in the Listed Blue Riband Trial on his seasonal reappearance as a three-year-old.

Although he won a conditions race at Newcastle, his three-year-old season proved to be an anticlimax as he was beaten out of sight in Shergar's Derby before suffering a hairline fracture to his off-fore cannonbone, which forced his retirement.

Balding said on Friday: “Robellino was just the most lovely horse to train. He had a marvellous temperament and I enjoyed training his offspring because he stamped them all – they all had his attitude and bone.

“He had already proven to be a good broodmare sire and we still have Spurned , who has been a brilliant mare for us.”

Syndicated to stand at Derry Meeting Farm in Pennsylvania for $15,000, Robellino attracted a small book of mares and stood his second season at Windfields Farm in Maryland for a significantly reduced $5,000.

Despite a moderate first crop of 14, he got off to a flying start as the sire of Group 3 Greenham Stakes winner Faustus.

The Henry Cecil-trained colt, who was the most expensive Robellino yearling sold at $70,000, was one of four runners for his sire to make an impact in Britain, prompting his transfer to Littleton Stud in 1988.

As a valuable outcross for most mares, Robellino was supported by a wide spectrum of breeders and quickly became renowned for producing high-class, tough runners. Among his best performers was the 2,000 Guineas winner of 1994, Mister Baileys, who also emulated his sire by taking the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes, aswell as the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Classic Park, the enigmatic dual Gold Cup winner Royal Rebel, and other Group 1 winners such as Rebelline and Robertico.

Several of Robellino's sons were retired to stud, including Mister Baileys, who, following a life-threatening attack of grass sickness, was sold to stand at Vinery Farm in Kentucky. He returned to Whitsbury Manor Stud for the 2001 season, where he became a useful sire before infertility ensured his early retirement from the breeding shed in 2003.

Robellino's daughters have also proved to be effective producers, breeding the likes of Derby runner-up Walk In The Park and Group 2 winners Passing Glance, El Maimoun and Miss Of Wales.

The best produce out of the Pronto mare Isobelline, Robellino traced to Knight's Daughter, who found fame as the dam of Round Table. She later became the ancestress of Pulpit, Johannesburg, Minardi and Tale Of The Cat.
 
Thanks for this!

Robellino was a real old favorite; I really hope we will see his name for some generations to come.

Funny enough had never heard of a sire called "Storm Boot" before last week, when he had a runner in Royal Ascot .
 
What a good age he reached. I was privileged to go to Littleton when Reid Coulter was in charge and was shown ROBELLINO when, I think, he was about 21 or 22. He was in magnificent nick and has always been a stallion I liked. A very decent broodmare sire as described above.
 
PRESS RELEASE
RAINBOW QUEST

Rainbow Quest, the most successful British sire in the history of the European Pattern and twice champion sire of broodmares, had to be put down on July 7, as a result of unresolvable complications following emergency surgery for colic. The 26-year-old son of Blushing Groom had been based at Banstead Manor Stud for the last 19 years, following his first two seasons standing at Juddmonte Farms, Wargrave.


Rainbow Quest had been recruited to the Juddmonte team of Prince Khalid Abdulla as a yearling in 1982, when his price of $950,000 placed him among the top 20 yearling colts at the American sales. With such a price tag, Rainbow Quest was always the subject of considerable expectations and he didn’t disappoint. Sent into training with Jeremy Tree, he showed a high level of ability from the very start, despite having a May 15 birthday. Rainbow Quest had clearly inherited plenty of the speed and precocity that had made his sire Blushing Groom the two-year-old sensation of 1976.


Tree had Rainbow Quest ready to make his debut in a 7-furlong maiden race at Newmarket in August, and the youngster defeated his 29 opponents in style. Another big field faced Rainbow Quest at Newbury the following month, when he started a hot favourite for the Haynes, Hanson and Clark Stakes over a mile, and he produced another very promising display to win.


Rainbow Quest’s victories were so impressive that he started second favourite behind another unbeaten colt, El Gran Senor, in the Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes. The betting proved accurate, with Rainbow Quest proving the only one capable of extending the Irish raider and he reduced El Gran Senor’s winning distance to half a length. The compilers of the International Classifications had no hesitation in ranking El Gran Senor and Rainbow Quest first and second among the juveniles, separated by 1lb. Timeform was similarly impressed, rating him 130.


Rainbow Quest confirmed his standing as one of the best of his generation at three, when he won the Gr.2 Great Voltigeur Stakes most impressively. He had started his three-year-old campaign by running Lear Fan to a short head in the Gr.3 Craven Stakes over a mile and then contested three classics. He found a mile too sharp by that stage when fourth in the 2,000 Guineas but he then finished a fine third, beaten two lengths by Darshaan and half a length by Sadler’s Wells, in an unusually competitive Prix du Jockey-Club. Sent to Ireland for the Irish Derby, he again proved to be the only one capable of giving the brilliant El Gran Senor a race, running him to a length.


With his late foaling date no longer a disadvantage at the age of four, Rainbow Quest translated his new-found maturity into even more impressive form. After cantering over the opposition in the Clive Graham Stakes over 1¼ miles at Goodwood, he handed out the same treatment to his six rivals in the Gr.1 Coronation Cup, winning hard held from the Derby Italiano winner Old Country. He then ran well to finish second to Pebbles in the Eclipse Stakes and a close third in the King George but saved his best effort for the Arc. Although he crossed the line a neck behind Sagace (an impressive winner of the previous year’s Arc), the head-on camera revealed that Sagace had twice bumped heavily into Rainbow Quest. The stewards promoted Rainbow Quest to first place.


Timeform rated Rainbow Quest 134 and his International Classification rating of 133 made him the joint-top older horse in Europe. It is a measure of his tremendous ability that he achieved a Timeform rating of at least 130 at the ages of two, three and four, he was the first horse since Mill Reef and Brigadier Gerard to achieve this feat.


His International Classification rating of 133 meant that Rainbow Quest was officially recognised as the best of Blushing Groom’s many European-raced offspring. This was quite an accolade, as Blushing Groom sired 18 per cent stakes winners, including such as Nashwan, Arazi, Groom Dancer, Rahy and Crystal Glitters.


Rainbow Quest’s powerful bloodlines also included an exceptional female line. His dam, I Will Follow, became the third consecutive generation of this famous line to become a Group winner when she defeated Amazer (future winner of the Yellow Ribbon Stakes) in the Gr.3 Prix de Minerve. I Will Follow was a daughter of the Oaks runner-up Where You Lead, who in turn was out of Noblesse, who established herself as one of the best-ever winners of the Oaks when she eased home ten lengths clear in 1963


I Will Lead was one of two very good daughters of Where You Lead, the other being the Oaks runner-up Slightly Dangerous. This exceptional broodmare produced Warning, the champion of his generation at two and three; Commander In Chief, winner of the Derby and Irish Derby; Dushyantor, runner-up in the Derby and St Leger; Deploy, runner-up in the Irish Derby; Yashmak, a Gr.1 winner who was also second in the Irish Oaks and fourth in the Oaks; and Jibe, runner-up in the Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile.


Is it any wonder, in view of the immense talent shown by his family, that Rainbow Quest proved so effective as a stallion?


When his daughter Fashion Statement won the Oaks d’Italia a month before Rainbow Quest’s death, she became no less than his 95th stakes winner. If his outstanding Japanese son Sakura Laurel, a winner of the Arima Kinen and Tenno Sho, is included, Rainbow Quest has no fewer than 18 Gr.1 winners to his credit and his total of Group winners stands at 58. These 58 represent nearly 6 per cent of the 986 foals in his first 18 crops. Very few stallions ever come close to this type of strike rate.


It took Rainbow Quest only two seasons at stud to come up with the winners of the Derby, Irish Oaks, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Grand Prix de Paris, Hollywood Turf Cup and Prix du Cadran. Since then he has added many more top prizes to his collection, such as the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Oaks d’Italia, St Leger (twice), Prix Royal-Oak (twice), Eclipse Stakes, Dubai Champion Stakes, Coronation Cup, Prix Lupin and Prix d’Ispahan. Four of his offspring have become Gr.1 winners at the age of two.


More recently, Rainbow Quest has earned recognition as an outstanding sire of broodmares. The major winners out of Rainbow Quest’s daughters include the classic winners North Light (Derby), Kris Kin (Derby), Footstepsinthesand (2,000 Guineas) and Rakti (Derby Italiano), plus Gr.1 winners of the calibre of Powerscourt (Arlington Million), Polish Summer (Sheema Classic), Meteor Storm, Marotta and Rebelline. As the latest Derby winner, Authorized, is out of a grand-daughter of Rainbow Quest, this grand stallion appears in the pedigree of three of the last five winners of the Epsom classic.


Rainbow Quest already figures as the broodmare sire of six Group winners in 2007 and his daughters have produced Group winners to more than 30 different stallions. The chances are, then, that his daughters are going to prove his richest legacy – the pot of gold to be found at the end of the rainbow.

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By one of those strange coincidences, Juddmonte’s veteran broodmare Aryenne died at the age of 30 on July 9, two days after Rainbow Quest’s demise. It was this classic-winning daughter of Green Dancer who provided Rainbow Quest with his first classic winner, when their son Quest For Fame took the 1990 Derby.
Aryenne was also the dam of the very smart Dancing Brave filly Yenda, who produced the Gr.3 winner Notable Guest.


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Date: 09 July 2007
 
Whats the big buzz first season sire in the States this year Powerscourt...you know more about the American scene than most on here.
 
1982 Kentucky Derby winner Gato Del Sol has been destroyed as a result of the exigencies of old age. He was 28.
 
Still a bit early as there are so many big two year old race to be run. There are also a lot of unraced two year olds as many trainers like to wait as long as possible with the better ones. The leading 5 at the moment are as follows

1 POSSE (2000, Silver Deputy), Vinery, KY $12,500 59 25/13 5/5 $61,847 Kodiak Kowboy, $204,825 $669,236

2 VAN NISTELROOY (2000, Storm Cat), Ashford Stud, KY $7,500 116 30/10 3/4 $36,921 Strike the Deal, $109,142 $446,621

3 HARLAN'S HOLIDAY (1999, Harlan), Airdrie Stud, KY $17,500 80 22/7 2/2 $102,289 Tasha's Miracle, $126,800 $401,346

4 PROUD CITIZEN (1999, Gone West), Airdrie Stud, KY $12,500 80 22/6 0/2 $57,972 Dreabons Legacy, $52,292 $278,196

5 VINDICATION (2000, Seattle Slew), Hill 'n' Dale Farms, KY $60,000 102 18/5 0/1 $335,178

With major group races to be run in the next three months I would expect the above list to change dramatically.
 
Cheers thanks for that, finding the American scene (perhaps due to the greater Arab presence) very interesting these days.
 
It was the filly Set Play in the Debutante at Del Mar.

Not sure what happened in the race, but three of them were pulled up.
 
Darley now has Teofilo, Any Given Saturday, Curlin and Street Sense all retiring to Kildangan/Jonabell/Dalham Hall etc. for next year.

Makes for one hell of a line up :)
 
Doubtful they all will but surely that's the same attitude as taken by Coolmore with the yearling sales except they're probably spending more on fewer horses - but those they know are top class runners.

Would say if SS and Authorized are both top 5 in the sire lists either side of the Atlantic in 5 years time it would be a success.

Also bought part of New Approach.
 
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