ONE of the speediest sons of Dansili, Bated Breath won the Group 2 Temple Stakes in a new course record time and was second in four Group 1 sprints. A half-brother to champion miler Cityscape, this very handsome bay has made an excellent start to his stud career. At Royal Ascot in 2019 he sired three individual winners. A Bated Breath foal fetched 185,000gns at Newmarket last December.

His daughter Daahyeh added the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes to her Albany Stakes success and she was then second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. Space Traveller won the Group 2 Solonaway Stakes at Leopardstown as well as the Jersey Stakes, while Biometric’s Ascot win was in the Britannia Stakes.

Two more Group 2 stars for Bated Breath are Worth Waiting (Dahlia Stakes) and Beckford in the Railway Stakes, as well as seconds in two Group 1 events, and altogether Bated Breath has sired 29 stakes winners.

Unraced as a two-year-old, Bated Breath won his first three starts in 2010.

The next year he won two of his first three races, the Listed Leisure Stakes at Windsor and a victory over Society Rock at Haydock.

He was a close second to champion Dream Ahead in the July Cup at Newmarket and the Sprint Cup at Haydock, both Group 1 events, before a trip to Woodbine in Canada to finish second in the Grade 1 Nearctic Stakes. Timeform rated him on 125 that season.

On his reappearance as a five-year-old, Bated Breath broke the Haydock record for five furlongs when winning the Group 2 Temple Stakes in 56.39 seconds. At Royal Ascot he was a close second in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, and on his final appearance he was third in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock.

Bated Breath is a half-brother to champion miler Cityscape whose wins included the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Stakes at Meydan. Their dam Tantina, a daughter of Distant View, scored in the Listed Oak Tree Stakes and Sceptre Stakes, and she is out of Didina who won the Grade 2 Dahlia Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Monroe, the fourth dam of Bated Breath, was dam of dual European champion Xaar; she was also a half-sister to the dam of El Gran Senor and Try My Best.

BATED BREATH (GB), Bay 2007. Won six races, £419,945, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, 3 to 5 years including, betfred.com Temple Stakes, Haydock Park, Gr.2, sportingbet.com Leisure Stakes, Windsor, L, also placed second in Betfred Sprint Cup, Haydock Park, Gr.1, Darley July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, King’s Stand Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Nearctic Stakes, Woodbine, Gr.1, and third in Betfred Sprint Cup, Haydock Park, Gr.1.

Retired to Stud in 2013, and sire of the winners of 400 races, and £6,301,073, including DAAHYEH (GB), SPACE TRAVELLER (GB), WORTH WAITING (GB), BECKFORD (GB), BREATHTAKING LOOK (GB), MAID IN INDIA (IRE), SIMPLY BREATHLESS (GB), FACCIO IO (GB), FEEL GLORIOUS (GB), LES HOGUES (IRE), VIADERA (GB), VIK THE BILLY (GB), JACK AND NOAH (FR), JASIKAN (IRE), AL JOHRAH (GB), EKHTIYAAR (GB), MOMKIN (IRE), GAVOTA (GB), LANDSHARK (GB), TAKE A DEEP BREATH (GB), MASCHIO ITALIANO (GB), UNABATED (IRE), COULD BE KING (GB), HOLD TRUE (GB), PUDS (GB), BREATH OF AIR (GB), MISTRESS OF VENICE (GB), SIBILANCE (GB)

Stands at: Banstead Manor Stud, Cheveley, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9RD, England.

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