Aclaim

ACCLAMATION is responsible for a sire line that is highly sought after and holds enormous commercial appeal. In Aclaim, a Group 1 winner over 7f and from a top-class family, The National Stud has a representative who combines class, speed and performance.

A winner over 6f on his only start at two, Aclaim developed into a classy performer as a three-year-old over 6f and 7f. He was successful in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes that year, but better was to come at four when he won the Group 2 Park Stakes and ended his career triumphantly with victory in the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt.

Aclaim began his stud career at an advertised fee of £12,500 and his first crop of foals averaged over twice that when offered for sale last winter. His average was 24,243gns for 38 foals sold (including vendor buy-backs) and the top price achieved was €120,000 (£107,609) for Ballintry Stud’s colt out of an unraced grand-daughter of Shadayid.

Amongst his first crop is the second foal out of the Australian Listed winner La Pieta, a Redoute’s Choice daughter of multiple Australian Group 1 winner Divine Madonna.

He also has a filly out of Linet, a winning full-sister to the Group 3 Jersey Stakes winner and Group 1-placed Rainfall. Another daughter with a pedigree full of speed and promise is his filly out of Loch Mirage, an unraced grand-daughter of the brilliant Loch Song.

His maternal family is top-class – Aclaim is the first foal out of the Listed-placed Aris, a Danroad three-quarters sister to Group 1 Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Again by Danehill Dancer.

They are out of Cumbres, an unraced Khayasi half-sister to the brilliant Montjeu, and to the second dam of Goldream, winner of the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1). It is also the family of 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner, and Aclaim’s fellow first-season sire, Galileo Gold.

Racing form

15 runs, seven wins, two places | Best Timeform Rating: 122 | Average winning distance: 6.86f

Stakes form

AT 3 Won Dubai 100 Challenge Stakes, Newmarket, G2, (7f. beating Lumiere (GB) and Jallota (GB)), Dubai Duty Free Cup Stakes, Newbury, L., (7f. beating Fannaan (USA) and Accession (IRE)), third in Bar One Racing Lacken Stakes, Naas, Gr.3, (to Only Mine (IRE)).

AT 4 Won Qatar Prix de la Forêt, Chantilly, Gr.1, (7f. beating So Beloved (GB) and Karar (GB)), Alan Wood Plumbing/Heating Park Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, (7f. beating Nathra (IRE) and Home of The Brave (IRE)), second in LARC - Prix Maurice de Gheest, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Brando (GB)).