CLASSIC-placed Group 1 sprint star Green Desert forged one of two powerful branches of the Danzig (by Northern Dancer) sire line and the sprint champion Oasis Dream is among his most notable sons.
The Banstead Manor Stud ace has more than 100 stakes winners to his name and, among them, a growing number of sons who are carrying on his line at stud. Last year, for example, his son Showcasing broke through at Group 1 level thanks to his Commonwealth Cup and Sprint Cup star Quiet Reflection, while freshman sire Power had four stakes winners in the European half of his global first crop.
This early success augurs well for those Oasis Dream horses still in the formative stages of their stallion careers and that list includes the Irish National Stud’s Gale Force Ten, whose first foals made up to €52,000 last year.
The three-time winner Gale Force Ten was runner-up in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and third in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes as a juvenile, and went on to take the Group 3 Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot shortly after chasing home Magician in the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh.
Clearly he inherited more of his sire’s speed than his dam’s stamina, although being out of a Listed Warwickshire Oaks winner suggests that, with the right mares, he has the potential to sire some smart middle-distance horses, in addition to the likely more frequent juveniles, sprinters and milers.
His dam Ronaldsay’s (by Kirkwall) siblings include Crackle (by Anshan), dam of the dual US Grade 3 winner Pickle (by Piccolo), a high-class miler whose speedy and prolific stakes-winning son Gusto (by Oasis Dream), closely related to Gale Force Ten, has gone to stud in India. This family’s talent for producing milers and sprinters is further evident in the third and fourth generations of the pedigree.
Crackling (by Electric), the grandam of Gale Force Ten, is a half-sister to champion and Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Bianca Nera (by Salse) and also to Hotelgenie Dot Com (by Selkirk), who was twice Group 1-placed at two.
Bianca Nera is the grandam of champion and prolific middle-distance Group 1 star Postponed (by Dubawi), while Hotelgenie Dot Com is the dam of classic-placed dual Group 1 mile star Simply Perfect (by Danehill).
Others who descend from those two good mares include Robin Hoods Bay (by Motivator), Bondi Beach (by Galileo) and Mekong River (by Galileo), and the notable performers in the fourth generation include Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes winner and Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes runner-up Great Deeds (by Forzando).
Won three races, £209,794, from 6 furlongs to 7 furlongs, at 2 and 3 years including, Jersey Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Elusive Pimpernel Patton Stakes, Dundalk, L, also placed second in Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, Norfolk Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, and third in vision.ae Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1.
Retired to stud in 2015, first crop now yearlings.
Stands at: Irish National Stud, Tully, Kildare, Co Kildare, Ireland
Contact: John Osborne, Sinead Hyland, Gary Swift or Helen Boyce
Telephone: +353 (0)45 521251
Email: stud@irishnationalstud.ie
Web: www.irishnationalstud.ie
Fee: €5,000