IF you search the Tattersalls website, trying to find the pedigree of the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes winner Rogue Millennium, you will not find her easily. That is because she had another name when she was part of the dispersal of stock from Shadwell Stud.
In December 2021 she was Hudud, and sold for 35,000gns as an unraced juvenile. Her credentials at the time were that she was a full-sister to a gelding who won seven times at the age of four, a daughter of the preeminent Dubawi (Dubai Millennium), and out of a Group 3 winner. At the time, it was probably a good price for her.
Renamed Rogue Millennium, and put in training with Tom Clover, she is the earner of some £200,000 in two seasons, winner of the Listed Oaks Trial at Lingfield last year, successful in a Royal Ascot Group 2 this year, and has run close in a number of group races in England and France. Should connections reoffer her for sale this autumn, they could well reap a bonanza.
Updates
There are more updates in the family. Rogue Millennium’s dam Hawaafez (Nayef), winner of the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot, is now responsible for three winners, two placed runners, the unraced two-year-old Kafiyah (Kingman), and a yearling colt by Masar (New Approach) who sold to Yeomanstown Stud last year for 110,000gns.
For the next blacktype in the family you have to go back to Rogue Millennium’s fourth dam, Wedding Bouquet (Kings Lake). She was a Group 3 and Grade 3 winner in Ireland and the USA, and placed in the Group 1 National Stakes and Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at two.
Her stakes-placed daughter Ventura (Spectrum) bred the six-time Group 1 winning sprinter Moonlight Cloud (Invincible Spirit).
New Bay’s hit
Jimi Hendrix led home a Chelsea Thoroughbreds one-two in the hugely-competitive Royal Hunt Cup, and what joy he has given connections.
Alex Elliott, who purchased him as a yearling, has had a lot to celebrate in recent times, especially his marriage to Gina Bryce.
A son of Ballylinch sire New Bay, and from his second crop, Jimi Hendrix is the first foal and winner for Planchart (Gio Ponti), a listed winner at Galway who was bought for 185,000gns by John O’Connor for Ballylinch.
Jimi Hendrix sold for 82,000gns as a yearling, his three-year-old half-brother Borletti (Kodiac) made 5,000gns more, and among the younger stock on the ground is a yearling full-brother to Jimi Hendrix.