blue diamond stud
A real Diamond
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T IS OCTOBER when I catch up with Blue Diamond Stud’s adviser Tony Nerses during the yearling sales at Newmarket. There has been much to talk about on the track for the operation in the past 12 months, including stakes successes for colourbearers Extra Elusive and Majestic Noor, and there is inevitably plenty of mulling over the implications of Covid-19 for the bloodstock industry,
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but the conversation repeatedly returns to the subject of 2021 and the excitement the new year holds. That’s because next season the stud, owned by Kuwaiti businessman Imad Al Sagar, gets to race the keenly anticipated first crop of two-year-olds by its homebred triple Group 1 winner Decorated Knight. Furthermore, the majority of the stud’s own runners by the brilliantly bred son of Galileo will be partnered by its newly retained jockey, Hollie Doyle.
