Decorated Knight
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TOUGH and tenacious performer who only improved with age, Decorated Knight comes from a stallion-making family – he is a son of Pearling, a Storm Cat full-sister to Giant’s Causeway and to Group 2 Cherry Hinton winner You’resothrilling, dam of one of 2019’s leading first-season sires Gleneagles. Decorated Knight is one of three Group 1 winners and five Group 1 performers so far produced by her, all of them by Galileo. As well as sharing his maternal family with Gleneagles, Decorated Knight shares his sire with him meaning that the blood that pumps through his veins is remarkably similar to that of Gleneagles, although their racing careers took different trajectories. Second over a mile on his only start at two, Decorated Knight was purchased in-utero by Tony Nerses on behalf of Blue Diamond Stud at the 2011 Tattersalls December Mare Sale. Despite Pearling’s modest track career, as a full-sister to Giant’s Causeway and in-foal to Galileo she cost 1.3m guineas. At three, Decorated Knight won twice over a mile and, at his first try
in Group company, finished second in the Group 2 Joel Stakes. Giant’s Causeway’s stock tend to improve with maturity and further trips than the majority of progeny by Storm Cat’s stallion sons, and Decorated Knight had that in common with his “uncle’s” offspring. As a four-year-old, he won both his first start over 1m2f and his first Group race, the Group 3 Meld Stakes at Leopardstown on Irish Champions Weekend. It was as a five-year-old that Decorated Knight realised his potential, and the Winter Derby Trial was used as a the springboard to success in the Group 1 Jebel Hatta at Meydan and the Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh. He then finished second to Highland Reel in Royal Ascot’s Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes and returned to Leopardstown for the track’s show-piece event on Irish Champions Weekend, the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) in which he defeated Group 1 winners Churchill, Poet’s Word, The Grey Gatsby and Zhukhova. As Galileo closes in on 20 sons at stud who have sired Group 1
Decorated Knight foal sales: descending price order (gns) Horse b,c. ex Princess Noor (IRE) (Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)) (8th February 2019) b,c. ex Nazli (IRE) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) (18th January 2019) ch,f. ex Aniarnota (IRE) (Dalakhani (IRE)) (2nd March 2019) ch,c. ex Belova (IRE) (Soviet Star (USA)) (10th April 2019) b,f. ex Fol O’Yasmine (GB) (Dubawi (IRE)) (5th February 2019) b,c. ex Desert Lily (IRE) (Redoute’s Choice (AUS)) (21st April 2019) ch,c. ex Samite (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) (15th March 2019) b,f. ex Delira (IRE) (Namid (GB)) (14th April 2019)
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Price Consignor 190,000 56,627 42,900 25,740 24,023 20,592 19,733 5,148
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