DUAL bumper winner Dunskay, trained by Ben Pauling, is the latest potential star for the Foxwood Stud stallion Night Wish, and the recent Cheltenham success for Galopin Des Champs will also have gone down well with the stud’s owner, Donal White. Both successes bode well for his stallion Night Wish.
Dunskay, a €70,000 Derby Sale buy, is from the second crop of Night Wish (Sholokhov), and the first, numbering just 34 foals, contained Odiago, winner of the Listed Prix Fifrelet over hurdles at Auteuil as a three-year-old before meeting with a setback.
In March this year, Night Wish’s four-year-old son Losange Vert Bleu was runner-up in the Grade 3 Prix d’Indy Hurdle at Auteuil, and at the weekend he was placed again in a similar contest.
Bred in Germany by the world-famous Gestüt Etzean, Night Wish was a high-class and tough racehorse who ran until he was six and was very sound. He stands 16.3 hands, won over 10 and 11 furlongs, won the Group 3 Grand Prix de Vichy in France and was a listed winner in Germany. He was twice placed at the top level in Germany.
On the first of these occasions he finished third to Ivanhowe and Sea The Moon in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden, and he was only two lengths off the winner when third to Empoli and Earl Of Tinsdal in the Group 1 Preis von Europa.
Night Wish is a son of Sholokhov (Sadler’s Wells), sire of Grade 1 winners Don Cossack, Bob Olinger, Shishkin, Esmondo and Porticello and also grandsire of the immensely talented Galopin Des Champs (Timos). A Group 1 winner over a mile at two, Sholokhov was runner-up in both the Group 1 Irish Derby and the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes, and as a juvenile was placed in the Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh.
A full-brother to the Group 1 Preis der Diana-German Oaks and Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden winner Night Magic (Sholokhov), Night Wish is out of the stakes-placed Monsun (Konigsstuhl) mare Night Woman. She bred yet another group winner in the shape of Night Music (Sea The Stars), successful in both the Group 2 Gran Premio di Milano and the Group 2 Premio Federico Tesio. Night Wish’s third dam Novelle (Northfields) also won the German Oaks.
Night Wish was well supported during his first few seasons at Haras de Montaigu with the likes of Sarah Faulks, Pascal Noue, Neustrian Associates, Madame Patrick Papot, Catherine Coffier and Goldford Stud using him.
Race record
NIGHT WISH (GER), Bay 2010. Won five races, £140,656, from 1 mile 2 furlongs to 1 mile 3 furlongs, at 3 to 6 years including, Grand Prix de Vichy, Vichy, Gr.3, BET3000 Grand Prix-Aufgalopp, Cologne, L, also placed second in Gerling Preis, Cologne, Gr.2, Premio Ambrosiano, Milan, Gr.3, and third in Longines Grosser Preis von Baden, Baden-Baden, Gr.1, Preis von Europa, Cologne, Gr.1, La Coupe, Chantilly, Gr.3, Grosser Erdinger Weissbier-Bavaria Preis, Munich, L.
At stud
Retired to stud in 2017, and sire of 14 winners, of 25 races, and £538,059, including ODIAGO (FR) and Losange Vert Bleu (FR).
Information
Stands at: Foxwood Stud, Mohera, Castlelyons, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland.
Contact: Donal White
Telephone: +353 87 7913509
Email: donalwhite78@hotmail.com
Fee: €4,000