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Son of Redoute’s wins second Group 1.

Dual Group 1 winner King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice) will retire to Coolmore at the end of his racing career, the breeding powerhouse announced on Saturday, following the colt’s impressive victory in the Champagne Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick. 

The stallion deal was reached during the week after the colt’s high-class win in the Inglis Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) and Coolmore’s faith in the horse was repaid handsomely as he stayed on stoutly to beat Glenfiddich (Fastnet Rock) in an exciting finish. 

Tom Magnier said he was looking forward to the son of Redoute's Choice (Danehill) joining the stud at the end of his racing career. 

"We are so thankful to James Harron and his racing partners for giving us the opportunity to become involved in King's Legacy," said Magnier. 

"They are a wonderful group of owners who will give him great support at stud when he retires to Coolmore when he is finished racing."

Coolmore Stud were the underbidders on the colt at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in 2019, with the gavel falling in James Harron's favour to bid of $1.4 million. 

"King's Legacy is a particularly good looking horse with great pedigree and is now the only Redoute's Choice to win multiple Group 1s as a two-year-old, so he is a very exciting proposition for us."

King’s Legacy - who becomes the first dual Group 1-winning juvenile for Arrowfield Stud’s late breed shaping stallion Redoute’s Choice - undoubtedly possesses a sire’s pedigree, being a three-quarter brother to the now pensioned Not A Single Doubt - a family that stretches back to the breed-shaping stallion Snippets (Lunchtime). 

Harron told Racing & Sports Bloodstock there had been plenty of interest in the colt following his victory in the Sires' Produce Stakes and he was delighted he would be joining the Coolmore Stud roster in the future.  

"After the Sires' win we fielded a lot of calls on the horse and there were a lot of farms who were interested in investing in him and Coolmore were very adamant they wanted to have him and it is a great result," said Harron. 

"Tom and MV [Magnier] actually loved him as a yearling and they were underbidder on him at the sale, so they have been watching the horse very closely. When it came round to it they felt it was a horse they just had to have. 

"We felt he was very special and it is great he has come up trumps again. He is a very rarefied prospect as he is now the only ever Redoute's Choice two-year-old to win two Group 1s as a juvenile - so he is quite unique."

Harron said a lot of thought went into naming the colt 'King's Legacy' and was happy to see his high opinion of him come to fruition. 

"We named the horse 'King's Legacy' with great faith after we paid a lot money for him because we felt he was the best physical we had seen by the sire and was certainly the best bred that had been offered by the stallion, so we were able to get a very special name in King's Legacy," said Harron. "It is rare something like that comes off - so it's great. 

"To be a three-quarter brother to Not A Single Doubt, who is now pensioned off and a son of Redoute's - who is sadly no longer with us - and to have a family that goes back to Snippets who is incredibly potent here in Australia. He is an amazing addition for Coolmore Stud on the stallion roster when the time comes."

However, not wanting to rest on his laurels, Harron is already mapping out the path for the colt's three-year-old season and is confident the best might be yet to come for King's Legacy, with the Golden Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) set to be his likely early target. 

"I think we have something really special, he has won three Group races from 1200 metres up to 1600 metres, including two Group 1s and I think we have to sit down and map out what we do next," said Harron. 

"I would think the most likely thing is to go to the Golden Rose and potentially the Caulfield Guineas. He is from a very fast, good looking family and he brings a lot of class to that speed and precocity, so we are pretty excited about it. 

"He really does look like he will be a great three-year-old. He is a great type, he's got amazing quality and got a lovely depth of girth and got a massive big hip on him."

Harron also said he believed the colt had the right temperament to make a stallion and has shown that star quality from day one. 

"Everything he has done so far has been pure natural ability - he has not been pushed," said Harron. "Everytime he goes out and trials we don't take him out of his comfort zone, but he has a great raceday mindset and seems to know where the line is. He just seems like a horse who has a very intuitive idea of how to race. 

"All the feedback we have had about him is that this is just the beginning and it is quite incredible what he is doing. He is a very strong forward type and his race sense will carry him a long way. He doesn't need a lot of racing and he is very clean-winded. 

"He is very straightforward, he doesn't need any headgear. We took the winkers off him and just let him relax. Peter [Snowden] said he is one of the most genuine horses he has ever had and that is certainly something to be very excited about. He was an incredibly relaxed customer from day one.

"He went to the breaker in Queensland that we use - Peter and Michelle McMahon at Kolora Lodge - and he broke in quite a lot of horses that year and really liked him from day one and told me he thought he was my best horse. 

"It really is lovely to see all the opinions from start to finish get justified and see him do what he has done."