JEREMY was crowned leading sire at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival. One of only two stallions to supply two winners at the meeting, he pipped Fame And Glory for the top honour when Scarlet And Dove finished a half-length third in the Grade 2 Paddy Power Mares’ Chase on the Friday.
Corach Rambler won the Grade 3 Ultima Handicap Chase on the opening day of the festival and the exciting Sir Gerhard extended his undefeated record over obstacles with a three-length score in the Grade 1 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle the following afternoon. Jeremy was a son of champion sire Danehill Dancer, a leading international flat stallion, and so he represented the powerful Danehill branch of Danzig (Northern Dancer).
This line has been one of the dominant forces in the global flat sector, but it is also the branch of Danzig that has made a considerable impact on National Hunt racing too.
Jeremy also supplied standouts such as Appreciate It, Jer’s Girl, Belfast Banter, Reserve Tank, Black Tears, Whisky Sour, Mister Fisher and the much-lamented Our Conor, the horse largely responsible for the stallion’s shift from the flat sector to National Hunt.
Jeremy began his career at the Irish National Stud and was in his second season at Garryrichard Stud at the time of his premature death. In addition to his outstanding results with jumpers, he got early success on the flat and two of his three Group 2 scorers are available as stallions to Irish breeders.
Group 1-placed Success Days retired directly to stud here and has yearlings, whereas Kool Kompany has been repatriated from Spain to stand at Clongiffen Stud.
The distinctively marked former Richard Hannon trainee is only 10 and looks sure to be very popular.
He was already a dual winner when adding a six-furlong listed contest at Naas at the start of June of his two-year-old season, and he won the Group 2 Railway Stakes and Group 2 Prix Robert Papin before finishing a half-length runner-up to Dick Whittington in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.
He won the Group 3 Craven Stakes first time out at three and later pipped Stormy Antarctic in the Listed Doncaster Mile.
Kool Kompany was a freshman sire last year and from just a handful of runners has had two winners, a son and a daughter.
There are plenty of stakes and pattern winners in the various branches of the first few generations of his pedigree, and his fourth dam has connections to the sprint Group 1 winners Awzaan, Bassenthwaite, and Keen Hunter.
However, it is a full-brother to Kool Kompany that better advertises his potential as a National Hunt sire because Prussian Eagle has multiple blacktype placings over obstacles, including third in the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown.
Their dam has a pair of hurdle-winning siblings and it’s only a matter of time before Kool Kompany has plenty of offspring who strike over hurdles and fences.
KOOL KOMPANY (IRE), Brown 2012. Won seven races, £311,974, from 5 furlongs to 1 mile, at 2 to 5 years including, GAIN Railway Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, Prix Robert Papin, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.2, Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Alfred Nobel Rochestown Stakes, Naas, L, Betway Doncaster Mile Stakes, Doncaster, L, also placed second in Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, Steve Brown Ben Marshall Stakes, Newmarket, L.
Retired to Stud in 2018, and sire of the winners of 2 races, and £17,642.
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