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Royal Ascot review
Story by Aisling Crowe |Photography by Debbie Burt and PA Images | Stats from Global Stallions App
ROYAL WATCHERS were thrilled by the first appearance of Meghan Markle, the new Duchess of Sussex in the Royal procession preceding the opening day of Royal Ascot, but it was the kings of Juddmonte Farm who reigned supreme on Tuesday.
A black-type double for Frankel, including a Group 1 success in the St James’s Palace Stakes, complemented a first Group win as a sire for Kingman in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes while recently retired Dansili was the grandsire of the surprise Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes hero Accidental Agent.
Without Parole, a colt from Frankel’s second crop, completed a dream two months for owners John and Tanya Gunther as the Canadian father-daughter team not only bred and own Without Parole, they also bred Triple Crown hero Justify and the Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes winner Vino Rosso.
Bred at Newsells Park Stud, Without Parole is out of the Lemon Drop Kid mare Without You Babe, a half-sister to Grade 1 Travers Stakes and Cigar Mile Handicap winner Stay Thirsty by Bernardini.
She is also a half-sister to the Fusaichi Pegasus colts Stay Thirsty, who was second to Afleet Alex in the Belmont Stakes, and Superfly, third behind First Samurai and Henny Hughes in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes over a mile at Belmont Park.
Without You Babe is a grand-daughter of Kingmambo, who has clicked particularly well with Frankel.
All four runners bred on the Frankel-Kingmambo cross have won and a grand-daughter of Kingmambo has provided him with his fourth Group 1 winner.
Without Parole is the second Group / Grade 1 winner produced by Without You Babe, who is already the dam of 2016 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz. The son of Speightstown stands at Shadwell’s Kentucky farm and his first crop are foals of 2018.
The second dam Marozia provides some neat symmetry as she was trained to win a handicap by Without Parole’s trainer John Gosden for her owner Sheikh Mohammed.
By Storm Cat, she was purchased by John Gunther at the 2003 Keeneland Breeding Stock Sale for $50,000.
Her grandson Without Parole was unsold at 650,000gns during Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale of 2015. Without You Babe returned to Banstead Manor Stud for the two seasons after visiting Frankel and has a two-year-old filly by Kingman and a yearling Oasis Dream filly. She was covered by Dubawi in 2017 and gave birth to a colt foal this spring.
Goodwood’s Group 1 Sussex Stakes has been mooted as the potential next target for Without Parole.
Frankel’s second winner of the first afternoon was the Juddmonte homebred Monarchs Glen, who took the Listed Wolferton Stakes over 1m2f, and he brought up an opening day treble for trainer John Gosden and jockey Frankie Dettori.
Successful in a Group 3 at Newmarket last autumn, the four-year-old was subsequently gelded and settled much better than previously. He is the fifth foal of the Lear Fan mare Mirabilis, herself a Grade 3 winner over a mile.
Mirabilis is a half-sister to Prix de Diane and Prix du Moulin heroine Nebraska Tornado by Storm Cat and to the Diesis colt Burning Son, who won the Hampton Court Stakes for the late Sir Henry Cecil.
Interestingly, Mirabilis was sent outside of the Juddmonte stallion band and has a two-year-old colt by Dark Angel, who holds an entry in the 2019 Investec Derby.
Calyx living up to the hype
Dettori with Calyx
Calyx made quite the impression on his debut in a Newmarket maiden on June 9, providing his sire Kingman with his first winner, and on Tuesday he became Kingman’s first Group winner with victory in the Coventry Stakes (G2) for Gosden and Dettori.
The colt will be aimed at the Prix Morny (G1) and he is the epitome of Juddmonte breeding as three of his four grandparents were bred by Prince Khalid Abdullah’s operation and five of his eight greatgrandparents.
His dam Helleborine won the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale at Longchamp over a mile at two beating Immortal Verse and was second to Misty For Me in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1).
Helleborine is a daughter of Observatory and a full-sister to Sprint Cup (G1) heroine African Rose, who in turn is the dam of Fair Eva, a daughter of Frankel and winner of the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at two and fifth to Winter in last year’s 1,000 Guineas.
The full-sisters have the distinction of providing the Juddmonte sires Frankel and Kingsman with their first Group winners and their dam, New Orchid, is a half-sister to Juddmonte’s Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner Distant Music.
Helleborine was covered this year by champion sprinter Muhaarar, who also covered Roodle, the dam of Tuesday’s surprise Queen Anne Stakes victor Accidental Agent.
If Juddmonte, Godolphin and Willie Mullins represented Goliath in different forms, then Accidental Agent was a victory for the Davids of racing.
A first Royal Ascot winner for jockey Charles Bishop, trainer Eve Johnson- Houghton and owner-breeder Gaie Johnson- Houghton, Accidental Agent was an 8,000gns vendor buy-back in Book 2.
The four-year-old is from the first crop of his ill-fated sire Delegator, who stood at Overbury Stud for £4,000 and his victory gave the late stallion, a son of Dansili, his first at the highest level.
Accidental Agent is the first foal of his dam Roodle, a winner over 5f at two by Xaar and a half-sister to Prize Exhibit by Showcasing (a featured family in mare of the month in the January-February 2017 edition, Ed).
The five-year-old was a Grade 2 winner over six and a half furlongs and won over a mile at Grade 3 level and was purchased by Barronstown Stud for 775,000gns at Tattersalls last December.
It is a family with plenty of speed as Accidental Agent’s second dam Roodeye is a half-sister to Gimrack Stakes winner Quick Wit by Oasis Dream, and to Gallagher, a son of Bahamian Bounty, who was placed in both the Prix Morny and Dewhurst Stakes.
Delegator is no longer with us and Dansili was pensioned in April due to declining fertility, but the 20-year-old is ably represented by his sons Zoffany and Bated Breath. Both are available to breeders and their progeny were popular in the sale ring last year, while Flintshire represents Dansili in Kentucky at Hill ‘n’ Dale where he stood his second season this spring at $20,000.
Blue Point 20th G1 winner for Shamardal
The second Group 1 race on Tuesday was also won by a son of a stallion who is no longer available to breeders, but for different reasons – Blue Point became the 20th top-level winner for Shamardal, who is restricted to Maktoum family-owned mares at Kildangan Stud due to fertility problems.
Blue Point was bred at the Irish division of Oak Lodge Stud, which is managed by Reddy and Linda Coffey, and sold for 110,000gns at the 2014 Tattersalls December Foal Sale to Ebor Bloodstock.
John Ferguson purchased the colt on behalf of Godolphin for 200,000gns as a yearling and he went on to win the Gimcrack Stakes and finish in the top three in both the Middle Park and Dewhurst Stakes.
At three he was third to Caravaggio in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot and fourth in Haydock’s Sprint Cup (G1).
His King’s Stand success was only his second run over 5f, his first being in the Group 2 Meydan Sprint back in February for his Derby-winning trainer Charlie Appleby.
He is a three-parts brother to Formosino, a son of Footstepsinthesand, who won the Group 2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh in 2010 for Jeremy Noseda before his sale for 320,000gns at that year’s Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.
Their dam Scarlett Rose did all her racing over 6f and 7f and is a daughter of Royal Applause who beat Tumbleweed Ridge, an older half-brother to Scarlett Rose, in the 1995 Gimcrack Stakes.
Scarlett Rose has a yearling colt by Night Of Thunder and was covered by Invincible Spirit in 2017.
She comes from a family that seems to work well with Giant’s Causeway line sires – Scarlett Rose is a half-sister to Tumbleweed Pearl, who is the grand-dam of the Listedwinning sprinter Fort Del Oro by Shamardal’s leading sire son Lope De Vega.
Footsteps in on the act for Giant’s Causeway
Footstepsinthesand made it two winners for sons of the late Giant’s Causeway on the first day of Royal Ascot when his daughter Lagostovegas took the 2m4f Ascot Stakes leading home a 1-3-4-5 for trainer Willie Mullins.
The six-year-old has been mixing hurdling and the Flat for the majority of her career and was fifth in the County Hurdle at Cheltenham in March and third in Ireland’s richest handicap hurdle, the Guinness Galway Hurdle last summer.
Poet had the last Word in the PoW
POET’S WORD created Royal Ascot history with his victory in the Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes taking Sir Michael Stoute to 76 winners at the Royal meeting and making him the most successful trainer at Royal Ascot.
The five-year-old horse also provided his sire Poet’s Voice with his first winner at the highest level, the second time in the first two days that a recently deceased young stallion sired their first Group 1 winner following Delegator on Tuesday.
Bred by Woodcote Stud, Poet’s Word was purchased for 300,000gns at Book 2 of Tattersalls October Yearling Sale by Charlie Gordon-Watson.
Poet’s Word stepped up from winning a maiden and handicap at three to take the Glorious Stakes (G3) at Goodwood and finish runner-up in both the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) and the Champion Stakes (G1) last year. Poet’s Word also filled the same position behind Hawksbill in the Dubai Sheema Classic (G1) at Meydan earlier this year.
Owned and bred by Anthony Oppenheimer’s Hascombe and Valiant Studs, Poet’s Word’s second dam Inchyre was also bred and raced by the Oppenheimers. She is the dam of Irish St Leger Trial (G3) winner Ursa Major and Listed winner Inchiri.
Inchyre is out of Inchmurrin which makes her a half-sister to Inchinor, a son of Ahonoora who was a very promising sire when he died at the age of 13. Inchinor is the sire of Group 1 winner Notnowcato whose best son Redkirk Warrior is a dual Group 1 winner in Australia.
It is also the family of EP Taylor Stakes (G1) winner Miss Keller and the Classic-placed Venus De Milo.
Whirly Bird has a two-year-old filly by Kingman named Incharge who was purchased by Stroud Coleman on behalf of Brightwalton Stud for 200,000gns at Book 1. She is in training with Charlie Hills.
Poet’s Voice won the Champagne Stakes (G2) at two, but his best performance was his Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) victory as a three-year-old beating Group 1 winners Rip Van Winkle, Makfi and Beethoven.
Bred by Darley, he retired to the operation’s English base at Dalham Hall Stud to stand alongside his sire Dubawi, until his death earlier this year at the age of just 11.
Poet’s Word is the second Group winner produced by the Nashwan mare Whirly Bird, the first being her Raven’s Pass filly Malabar, victorious in a pair of Group 3 contests at Goodwood. Whirly Bird is the grand-dam of last season’s Railway Stakes (G2) winner and Group 1-placed colt Beckford.
Two more of Dubawi’s Group 1-winning sons – Night Of Thunder and Postponed – stand alongside their outstanding sire, New Bay, who is from the Juddmonte family that has produced Oasis Dream, Kingman, Beat Hollow, Martaline and Coastal Path, is another young son of Dubawi. while Time Test stands his first season at the National Stud.
Camacho in-form
Signora Cabello (centre)
Camacho’s excellent 2018 continued at Royal Ascot with the success of his daughter Signora Cabello in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2). The son of Danehill, who stands at Yeomanstown Stud, has already sired Poules d’Essais des Pouliches winner Teppal in 2018, a first Group 1 winner for Camacho.
Signora Cabello, already successful in York’s Listed Marygate Stakes, is just the second Group 2 winner, and fifth Group winner overall, for Camacho who was bred by Juddmonte Farms and is a half-brother to Showcasing (Oasis Dream), sire of Group 1 winner Quiet Reflection.
His Royal Ascot winner was bred by John Fleming and Damien Burns out of Journalist, a half-sister to Flying Childers (G2) winner Sheer Viking, by Danehill. Their dam Schlefalora is herself a half-sister to Las Meninas, who won the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1) for Tommy Stack. She is also a half-sister to the second dam of Golden Jubilee (G1) and Nunthorpe (G1) victor Kingsgate Native.
Journalist raced in the Godolphin blue, finishing second in the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) and producing six winners including La Presse, a Gone West filly who was fourth in the Cheveley Park (G1)
Signora Cabello was sold by the Burns family’s Lodge Park Stud, the renowned Kilkenny farm, at last year’s Tattersalls Book 3 Sale where she was purchased for 20,000gns by Richard Knight and Sean Quinn for trainer John Quinn.
Prior to her Royal Ascot victory, Phoenix Thoroughbreds bought a 75 per cent stake in the filly from Zen Racing who retained the remaining quarter.
Expert back to his best
Expert Eye regained much of the spark he displayed when romping to victory in the Vintage Stakes (G2) at last season’s Glorious Goodwood in his Jersey Stakes (G3) success on Wednesday.
The son of Acclamation was spoken of as a potential 2,000 Guineas winner after that stunning success but disappointed in the Dewhurst (G1) when ninth and he could only manage tenth place behind Saxon Warrior in this year’s first Classic.
Trained by Sir Michael for owner-breeder Juddmonte Farms, Expert Eye is the second foal and winner out of Divisionist, a winning half-sister to Special Duty, who was successful in the Cheveley Park Stakes and has the distinction of winning both the two 1,000 Guineas races in the stewards’ room.
Stradivarius plays the right tune
FRANKIE DETTORI and Stradivarius played the sweetest song of all in the Ascot Gold Cup (G1) to give the effervescent Italian his sixth win in the iconic race and sire Sea The Stars his first.
Their dam is a full-sister to seven-times Grade 1-winning mare Sightseek (Distant View) and a half-sister to Tates Creek whose two top level victories include the Yellow Ribbon Stakes (G1). Expert Eye is the product of four generations of Juddmonte breeding.
Stradivarius wins the Gold Cup
The diminutive chestnut showed heart and guts to repel Vazirabad and Torcedor at the end of 2m4f where he was keen to start with. Racing in the colours of his breeder Bjorn Nielsen, Stradivarius is the latest of eight individual Group 1 winners by his sire, the incomparable champion Sea The Stars.
Stradivarius’s victory in last season’s Goodwood Cup (G1) made him one of three new individual Group 1 winners during 2017 for Sea The Stars and contributed to his sire’s fee increasing to €135,000 for the 2018 season, his highest so far.
Standing at the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud, Sea The Stars has a highly impressive 15 per cent stakes winners to runners rate and is a half-brother to the phenomenon that is Galileo.
Stradivarius was bought back by Nielsen for 330,000gns when he went under the hammer at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2015. He is a half-brother to Persian Storm, a German Group 3 winner by Monsun, and is the last foal out of their dam Private Life, a Bering half-sister to the grand-dam of Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist.
She was bred by the Wildenstein family out of Poughkeepsie, a daughter of their brilliant mare Pawneese, who won the King George, Oaks and Prix de Diane in 1976. Private Life was sold on behalf of the Wildenstein family at the 2006 Tattersalls December Mare Sale where Blandford Bloodstock purchased her at 70,000gns for Nielsen.
Magic repays some of her purchase price
Magic Wand cast a spell on her rivals in the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) bringing further glory to her illustrious family and going someway towards repaying her €1.4m yearling sales price.
The daughter of Galileo, who previously won the Listed Cheshire Oaks before finishing fourth in the Epsom Oaks (G1), is the fourth yearling out of Prudenzia to make seven figures at auction. Magic Wand is the most expensive of the four selling for €1.4 million to Peter and Ross Doyle at Arqana’s August Yearling Sale in 2016.
She is also a three-parts sister to Irish Oaks (G1) winner Chicquita by Montjeu, who became the most expensive horse sold at public auction in Ireland when purchased by the Doyles on behalf of Coolmore for €6 million at the 2013 Goffs November Sale.
Prudenzia is a Listed-winning daughter of Dansili and a half-sister to Pacifique, a Group 3 winner by Montjeu. It is the family of last year’s Melbourne Cup (G1) hero Rekindling, dual Oaks winner Alexandrova and Magical Romance, successful in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1).
Bred by Ecurie Monceaux and Lady O’Reilly’s Skymarc Farm, Magic Wand will try for Classic glory in the Irish Oaks (G1) at The Curragh on July 21.
Her two-year-old full-sister cost €900,000 at Arqana last August and is in training with Aidan O’Brien, while her yearling half-brother by Muhaarar is due to be sold at Arqana in August.
Camelot hitting Ascot success
Hunting Horn is a fourth Group winner for Camelot, who is currently Europe’s leading first crop sire of three-year-olds. His victory was the first Group success as a sire in England or Ireland for Camelot whose three previous Group winners, all from his first crop, were in France and Italy.
Fighting Irish’s win in the Group 2 Criterium de Saint-Cloud was the sole Group win at two for Camelot’s first crop, who were expected to be better at three.
So it has proved with Wait Forever and Pollara adding two more Group race victories this year before Hunting Horn made the Royal Ascot breakthrough. Camelot stands at Coolmore’s Fethard farm for €30,000 and he was joined on the Royal Ascot winners list by Shanghai Bobby, a Coolmore America stallion who also has his first three-year-olds this year.
Shanghai Bobby gets first Group win
Shang Shang Shang (left)
Shang Shang Shang from the familiar and successful Wesley Ward stable provided her trainer with a winner at the 2018 Royal meeting when beating the colts in the Norfolk Stakes (G2).
Shanghai Bobby is a son of Harlan’s Holiday and was America’s champion twoyear-old colt of 2012 courtesy of victories in the Champagne Stakes (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1).
Harlan’s Holiday, three times successful at the highest level, is by Storm Cat and is the sire of Into Mischief.
June proved a particularly successful month for Shanghai Bobby as the eight-year-old had a Group 1 double in Brazil, where he spent the 2014 and 2015 southern hemisphere breeding seasons, on June 12 with two-year-old sons Habile Bobby and Inforcer providing him with his first top-level victories as a sire.
Masterful performance from Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri
ALPHA CENTAURI is the nearest star to our solar system and the brightest in racing’s galaxy after her record-breaking victory in the Coronation Stakes (G1). Jessica Harrington’s first Royal Ascot winner smashed the track record for the round mile as she burned brighter than the midday sun in a stunning 6l victory.
Her grand-dam is East Of The Moon, Miesque’s daughter by Private Account and a half-sister to Kingmambo. East Of The Moon was a top-class racemare winning the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Prix de Diane and emulating her mother with victory in the Prix Jacques Le Marois. Amongst her offspring are Group 2 winner Moon Driver and the unraced Rahy mare Alpha Lupi, dam of Royal Ascot’s luminous star.
Mastercraftsman has sired three new Group 1 winners this year on three continents with Saint Emilion winning in New Zealand, Alpha Centauri claiming the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes, and A Raving Beauty making the breakthrough at the highest level in the Just A Game Stakes (G1) on the Belmont Stakes card in June.
Alpha Centauri is one of three Group winners so far from Mastercraftsman’s three-year-old crop, bred at a fee of €35,000, which went up to that following Kingston Hill’s St Leger win in 2014. His two-year-olds of this year are his most expensively bred crop to date at €40,000, but he stood the 2018 season for €25,000.
Alpha Lupi has a two-year-old filly by So You Think, who was bought back by vendors Camas Park Stud for 58,000gns at Book 1 last year. She has a yearling filly by Sea The Stars and returned to Mastercraftsman in 2017.
Mastercraftsman had a double on Friday when another three-year-old daughter was successful. Agrotera followed her paternal half-sister into the winners’ enclosure after her victory in the Sandringham Handicap.
Old Persian another score for Miesque
Earlier in the afternoon another descendent of Pasadoble, through her daughter Massaraat, a full-sister to Miesque, won the King Edward VII Stakes – Old Persian, providing Dubawi with his 99th Group winner when toughing it out to win the Ascot Derby for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin.
Unraced, Massaraat was one of six foals Pasadoble produced with Nureyev who, like her, raced in the Niarchos famous navy and light blue silks.
She is the third dam of Old Persian, who is out of the Singspiel mare Indian Petal. She is a full-sister to Ribblesdale Stakes winner Silkwood and Silent Honor by Sunday Silence, who won the Cherry Hinton Stakes (G2). It is also the family of Architecture who was second in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks two years’ ago.
Indian Petal has a two-year-old filly by Poet’s Voice named Chapelli, unbeaten in her two starts before contesting the Windsor Castle Stakes and a yearling filly by Pivotal. She returned to Dubawi in 2017.
Both that foal and Old Persian are inbred 5 x 5 to the blue hen Sun Bittern, dam of High Hawk who in turn is the dam of In The Wings, sire of Singspiel. Sun Bittern is also the dam of High Tern, who is grand-dam of Zomaradah, the dam of Dubawi.
They are also inbred 4 x 4 to Mr Prospector through his grandson Dubai Milennium, sire of Dubawi, and son Woodman who is Indian Petal’s damsire.
Invincible victory in Commonwealth
Invincible Spirit could have another top-class son retiring to stud in the form of Commonwealth Stakes (G1) winner Eqtidaar. The Shadwell homebred became the 16th individual Group 1, and 52nd Group winner, for the Irish National Stud’s kingpin who stands at a fee of €120,000 again in 2018.
Eqtidaar is the third foal and third winner out of Madany, a daughter of Acclamation. Her first foal Massaat by Teofilo was second to Air Force Blue in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and filled the same position behind Galileo Gold in the 2,000 Guineas (G1) and won the 7f Hungerford Stakes (G2) and was third to Ribchester in the Prix du Moulin (G1) last year.
Madany was bred by Brendan and Anne Marie Hayes at Knocktoran Stud and is the second Group 1 winner in just over 12 months descended from their mare Belle de Cadix
Merchant travels in style from Down Under
MERCHANT NAVY was sent to Ballydoyle with one purpose – to win a Group 1 Royal Ascot sprint before retiring to stud at Coolmore Australia. As sure as night follows day, that is exactly what the son of Fastnet Rock did when sticking his neck out at the death to claim the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
A four-year-old on northern hemisphere terms but still only three in his native Australia, Merchant Navy is due to return home to begin his stallion career in August, his fee of A$55,000 has already been announced although he does hold an entry in the July Cup (G1).
A winner of a Listed handicap at two, Merchant Navy won the Coolmore Stud Stakes (G1) the same race in which Zoustar, who will stand next season at Tweenhills Stud, was successful.
He was third on both his starts in Australia this year, including to Redkirk Warrior in the Lexus Newmarket Handicap (G1) his final race on home soil before his move to Ballydoyle following Coolmore’s reported A$30million buyout.
Merchant Navy is one of four Group 1 winners from Fastnet Rock’s 2014-bred crop in Australia. Overall, Fastnet Rock is the sire of 35 individual Group 1 winners and
He combines two of the most potent sirelines in Australia with the mighty Snippets as his damsire. Snitzel, who will stand for A$220,000 in 2018 at Arrowfield Stud, is Australia’s reigning champion sire and is on course to retain his title. He is out of a daughter of Snippets.
Legally Bay is the Snippets’ daughter responsible for Merchant Navy and she has produced two Group winners so far, headed by the Royal Ascot winner and both by Fastnet Rock. Her daughter Jolie Bay won a Group 2 over 7f at three, while Zara Bay was Listed-placed as a four-year-old.
Third to Fastnet Rock in the Oakleigh Plate (G1), Legally Bay was also placed in the Australian Stakes (G1).
She is a half-sister to Bonaria (Exceed And Excel) who won the Group 1 Myer Classic. Her yearling full-brother to Merchant Navy was purchased by his former trainer Ciaron Maher for A$350,000 at this year’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and she is due a foal by All Too Hard, a champion three-year-old and half-brother to Black Caviar.
With that coveted Royal Ascot victory on his CV and unbeaten in both his starts for Aidan O’Brien, Merchant Navy has the potential to join his sire in reverse shuttling to Ireland.
Showcasing gets a Royal Ascot score
Showcasing’s most expensively bred crop to race so far are illustrating what the Whitsbury Manor Stud resident can do with better mares.
After Advertise was second in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes earlier in the week, Soldier’s Call went one better when taking the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes to give trainer Archie Watson and owner Clipper Logistics their first Royal winner.
Bred by Llety Farms, Soldier’s Call was purchased by Joe Foley for 85,000gns at last year’s Book 2 Sale.
He is the second foal of his dam Dijarvo, a Listed winner over 5f as a juvenile and placed in the Railbird Stakes (G3) at Hollywood Park. She is by Cheveley Park Stud’s Coventry Stakes winner Iceman, who passed away at just six years of age.
