RETIRING to stud this spring at the Bridge House Stud in Co Westmeath is My Dream Boat, a Group 1 winner at Royal Ascot. Altogether, My Dream Boat won six races in his four seasons in training with first Donald McCain and then Clive Cox, with his Timeform rating rising to 124 in Racehorses of 2016.
Placed on all three of his starts as a two-year-old, My Dream Boat scored with more than two lengths to spare in handicaps at Doncaster and York the next season, before two successful visits to France, where he won first the Listed Prix du Ranelagh at Chantilly and then the Group 3 Prix Perth at Saint-Cloud, both over a mile.
My Dream Boat improved even more as a four-year-old, completing his hat-trick in the Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown Park in April, defeating the previous year’s winner Western Hymn, and then at Royal Ascot in June he won the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes over a mile and a quarter from the brilliant filly Found, whom he beat by a neck, with Western Hymn and The Grey Gatsby third and fourth more than three lengths away. However, in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park My Dream Boat had to be content with fifth place.
Though only fifth again to Almanzor and Found in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes in September, My Dream Boat finished ahead of Highland Reel and Harzand, then he was a fast finishing fourth to Almanzor, Found and Jack Hobbs in the Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot, ahead of The Grey Gatsby.
In 2017 My Dream Boat was second in the Group 3 Aston Park Stakes at Newbury, third to Ulysses in the Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes and fourth to Zarak in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.
My Dream Boat is the best winner sired by the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat hero Lord Shanakill, an American bred son of Speightstown. Betty Burke, the dam of My Dream Boat, is a winning daughter of Choisir and her dam is a half-sister to Optimistic Lass, who won the Group 2 Nassau Stakes and the Group 3 Musidora Stakes before breeding eight winners, including the European champion filly Golden Opinion, successful in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. Optimistic Lass is also the third dam of Alice Springs, who completed the Group 1 double of the Falmouth Stakes and the Sun Chariot Stakes, both at Newmarket, in 2016.
MY DREAM BOAT (IRE), Bay 2012. Won six races, £712,975, from 7 furlongs to 1 mile 2 furlongs, at 3 and 4 years including, Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Prix Perth, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, bet365 Gordon Richards Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, Prix du Ranelagh, Chantilly, L, also placed 2nd Al Rayyan Aston Park Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, and 3rd bet365 Gordon Richards Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3.
Retires to stud in 2018.
Stands at: Bridge House Stud, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, N91 EC81, Ireland
Contact: Micheal Orlandi
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