LAST year the first juveniles by undefeated Timeform 147-rated superstar Frankel (by Galileo) took the world by storm, a double-digit tally that featured Group 1 star and unbeaten Japanese champion Soul Stirring (dam by Monsun), Group 2 winner Queen Kindly (Rahy), pattern scorers Fair Eva (Observatory), Frankuus (Linamix), Mi Suerte (Pulpit) and Toulifaut (Darshaan), and multiple stakes-placed Cunco (Danehill Dancer).
His fee for 2017 is £125,000, but for just €5,000 you can breed your mare to his multiple winning half-brother Morpheus (by Oasis Dream) at Tally-Ho Stud.
The first foals of this capable miler made up to €46,000 in Goffs at the November Sale and he looks sure to be popular at the yearling sales, especially if both halves of his pedigree continue to excel. The Oasis Dream (by Green Desert) blacktype sires include Showcasing, Approve, Captain Gerard and last year’s leading freshman Power, who was featured here last week.
Every good winner for Frankel is another reminder of his stallion siblings: Group 3 winner Bullet Train (by Sadler’s Wells), who got a stakes winner as a freshman in 2016; Morpheus and triple Group 1 star Noble Mission (by Galileo), who have yearlings; and the newly retired Proconsul (by Galileo).
They are five of the six foals out of pattern-placed and speedy dual stakes winner Kind (by Danehill) and their other sibling is Joyeuse, a high-class full-sister to Morpheus. She won the Listed Dick Poole Stakes as a two-year-old, added the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes at three, was runner-up in both the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes and Group 3 Summer Stakes, and her first foal is a Shamardal (by Giant’s Causeway) filly born last year.
The speed that Kind showed came from her sire, Danehill (by Danzig). This we can say with some degree of certainty because of the dominant trend for middle-distance stamina that runs all through her distaff line. Morpheus and Joyeuse, who are inbred 3x3 to Danzig (by Northern Dancer), clearly got it too, as did Frankel.
Kind is out of Group 3 Lancashire Oaks winner Rainbow Lake (by Rainbow Quest) and is a half-sister to dual 10-furlong Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and Arlington Million Stakes star Powerscourt (by Sadler’s Wells), a horse who was Group 1-placed at eight (as a two-year-old), 10, 12 and 14 furlongs and runner-up in the Racing Post Trophy and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.
Their half-brother Last Train (by Rail Link) won the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville and was runner-up in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris, while half-sister Riposte (by Dansili) won the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes before going on to add a pair of Grade 2s at Belmont Park in the USA. Their dam Rainbow Lake (by Rainbow Quest) won the Group 3 Lancashire Oaks and the Listed Ballymacoll Stud Stud.
Third dam Rockfest (by Stage Door Johnny) was a dual two-year-old winner and runner-up in the Group 3 Oaks Trial Stakes at Lingfield.
Won three races, £22,241, over 1 mile, at 3 years.
Retired to stud in 2015, first crop now yearlings.
Stands at: Tally-Ho Stud, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Ireland
Contact: Tony O’Callaghan, Roger O’Callaghan, Henry O’Callaghan
Telephone: +353 (0)44 9348450
Email: info@tallyhostud.com
Web: www.tallyhostud.com
Fee: €5,000