BLUE Point needs very little introduction – his race and early stud record says it all. The champion freshman sire of 2023, he registered a remarkable 51 individual winners last year, another benchmark for the first sire since Sadler’s Wells to produce two Group-winning juveniles in his first crop.

His two standouts are part of a first crop that was deep in quality, containing as it does five stakes winners and four other stakes-placed horses. His first Australian crop also includes a couple of stakes performers. The highlights of his first crop came thanks to Rosallion’s record-breaking victory in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagadere and Big Evs’ win in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Success for Big Evs at Santa Anita was no surprise, given that his three victories in England came in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot, the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood, and the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster.

Blue Point’s fee for 2024 has almost doubled for his fifth season at stud, but given that he went to stud at €45,000, and has done what he did last year, the €60,000 fee this year could look to be value in time. After all, he was among the most brilliant European sprinters of recent decades, undefeated in a glittering final season, and he was also among the leaders of his generation at two.

He won his first two juvenile starts over six furlongs, trouncing his rivals by 11 lengths and more on the second occasion. He failed by a neck to beat Mehmas in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes, but bounced back to win the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes and make the frame in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes. The latter was his only try at seven furlongs.

Blue Point beat Harry Angel in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at Ascot first time out at three, but the placings were reversed in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup when the pair were second and third to Caravaggio. Victory in Ascot’s Group 3 Bengough Stakes rounded off the season and, when Blue Point returned to the venue the following June, he put up a brilliant performance, beating Battaash by almost two lengths to win the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes on only his second run over five furlongs.

At five, Blue Point ran away with a five-furlong Group 2 and six-furlong Group 3 before beating Belvoir Bay in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint, all on good ground. He then made it back-to-back King’s Stand Stakes wins against Battaash at Ascot just four days before his career finale, beating Dream Of Dreams in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes at the same festival.

Blue Point is among over 150 stakes winners by Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway). His siblings feature the Group 2 Railway Stakes victor Formosina (Footstepsinthesand).

Blue Point’s dam is a half-sister to the prolific Group 3-scorer Tumbleweed Ridge (Indian Ridge) and to notable broodmare Tumbleweed Pearl (Aragon), dam of the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner Gilded (Redback).

BLUE POINT (IRE), Bay horse, 2014. Jt 4th top rated 2yr old colt in England in 2016. Top rated older sprinter in U.A.E. in 2019. Won 11 races, value £2,629,693, at 2 to 5, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, King’s Stand Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1 (twice), Azizi Al Quoz Sprint, Meydan, Gr.1, Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2, Gulf News Meydan Sprint, Meydan, Gr.2, Pavilion Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Bengough Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint, Meydan, Gr.3, also placed second in Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Richmond Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, District One Meydan Sprint, Meydan, Gr.2 and third in Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Commonwealth Cup, Ascot, Gr.1 and Nunthorpe Stakes, York, Gr.1.

Retired to stud in 2020, and sire of 59 winners, of 85 races, and £2,357,992, including BIG EVS (IRE), ROSALLION (IRE), WALDFRIEDA (GER), SHADY LADY (FR), ACTION POINT (IRE), Dazzling Star (GB), Les Bleus (GB), Blue Stratum (AUS), Reasonable Point (AUS), Gushing Gold (IRE), and Storm Miami (IRE).

Stands at: Kildangan Stud, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare, W34 HR98, Ireland

Contact: Eamon Moloney, Anthony O’Donnell or Tom Fogarty

Telephone: +353 45 527600

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Fee: €60,000