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Fastnet Rock and Kingman sire new stakes winners and Caravaggio and Ribchester add new first crop winners
176 for Fastnet Rock
Coolmore Australia’s reverse shuttler Fastnet Rock (Danehill) sired his 176th stakes winner on Sunday when the Coolmore Stud-bred Joie De Soir (3 f ex Highest Ever by Galileo) won the Grand Prix de Clairefontaine (Listed, 2400m) at Clairefontaine.
Trained by Andre Fabre for Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith, Joie De Soir stayed on well in the closing stages to score a three length victory over stablemate Timour (Gleneagles). Qaiser (Charm Spirit) was another length and a half back in third.
Joie De Soir is out of Highest Ever (Galileo) who was bought for €1 million by MV Magnier at the 2013 Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale. Her second dam is Group One winner Alpine Rose (Linamix) who is herself a sister to fellow Group One winner Fragrant Mix.
Fastnet Rock’s fee this spring is set at $165,000 (inc GST). He finished last season as the leading sire of stakes winners in Australia having sired 14 in the 2020 / 21 season headed by Personal.
38 for Kingman
Juddmonte Farm-based Kingman (Invincible Spirit) added another stakes winner over the weekend when the Kirsten Rausing-homebred Oriental Mystique (4 f ex Madame Chiang by Archipenko) won the Prix Luth Enchantee (Listed, 2400m) at Clairefontaine.
After siring stakes winner number 37 on Saturday when Save A Forest won the Chalice Stakes (Listed, 1m4f) at Newmarket, on Sunday the David Simcock-trained filly grabbed the lead in the closing stages to defeat Tres Valentine (Fastnet Rock) by a head.
Kingman will cover to southern hemisphere time again this season for a fee of £70,000 and his stakes winners are headed by four Group One winners in Palace Pier, Persian King, Domestic Spending and Schnell Meister.
Six for Ribchester
Haunui Farm shuttler Ribchester (Iffraaj) notched up his sixth first crop winner on Sunday when Verba Volant (2 f ex Sabinillas by Clodovil) broke her maiden at Tagliacozzo for trainer Peraino Antonio. The filly becomes the first winner for her dam who is a half-sister to Listed winner Tarakala (Dr Fong) who is the grandam of three-time Group One winner Tarnawa (Shamardal).
Ribchester will stand for an unchanged fee of NZ$15,000 (plus GST) this year.
13 for Caravaggio
Coolmore’s Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) sired his 13th first crop winner when the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained Silver Lining (2 f ex Full Of Beauty by Motivator) broke her maiden at Clairefontaine on Sunday.
Caravaggio’s first European-bred crop is headed by stakes winners Agartha and Dizzy Bizu and the stakes placed duo Andreas Vesalius and Orazio. He shuttled to Australia for just one season in 2018.
