ONE of the best performers over longer distances in recent years, Sans Frontieres was the champion older stayer in Ireland and England in 2010, rated on 120 in the world rankings. This well-bred son of champion sire Galileo stood his first stud season at The Beeches Stud in Co Waterford in 2013, so his first crop are now five-year-olds and they made a big impression at last year’s sales, with four of them fetching prices between €90,000 and €56,500, while another 11 sold for €15,000 or more.

He is already sire of winners, including Lomachenko, trained by Nicky Henderson and winner over hurdles at Leicester by six lengths.

Sans Frontieres was bought by John Warren on behalf of Sir Robert Ogden for 450,000gns at Newmarket as a yearling and was trained by Jeremy Noseda. In his only start as a two-year-old, he won a maiden race over seven furlongs at Lingfield. He began the following year with a second to Delegator in the Group 3 Craven Stakes at Newmarket, before finishing a very close third to Black Bear Island in the Group 2 Dante Stakes at York, travelling fastest of all at the finish, but he then suffered a setback which kept him off the racecourse for the remainder of that season.

Sans Frontieres ended his four-year-old campaign in 2010 as the champion older stayer, but his first two outings were over distances much too short for him and it was only when moved up to a mile and a half in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot that he started to show his true form, running fourth to Harbinger and Duncan. Going on to Newmarket for the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes, he won by two and a half lengths from Redwood and Spanish Moon.

That success earned Sans Frontieres a penalty for the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes over 13 furlongs at Newbury in August, but that proved no problem and he scored comfortably by two and a quarter lengths from Laheeb, with Golden Sword and Kite Wood behind them. He completed his hat trick by visiting The Curragh for the Group 1 The Irish Field Irish St Leger over a mile and three-quarters and winning easily.

Sans Frontieres is one of six winners produced by his dam, the winning Shirley Heights mare Llia who was also third in the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket. His half-sister Kootenay was a triple listed victress, including the Masaka Stakes at Kempton and the Princess Elizabeth Stakes at Epsom. Llia is a half-sister to the group winner Guest Connections and to Newmarket listed scorer Lady Of The Lake, both out of Llyn Gwynant, the champion older mare over a mile in Ireland in 1989, winning the Group 3 Desmond Stakes and the Group 3 Matron Stakes.

SANS FRONTIERES (IRE). Top rated older stayer in England & Ireland in 2010. Won four races, £251,504, from 7 furlongs to 1 mile 6 furlongs, 2 to 4 years including, The Irish Field Irish St Leger, Curragh, Gr.1, Princess of Wales’s Sportingbet Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, CGA Geoffrey Freer Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, also placed second in banshahousestables.com Craven Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, and third in totesport.com Dante Stakes, York, Gr.2.

Retired to Stud in 2013 and sire of the winners of 1 race, and £18,014 under N.H. Rules, and also the sire of 3 winners of point-to-points.

Stands at: The Beeches Stud, Lismore, Co Waterford, Ireland

Contact: Robert McCarthy or Peter Kenneally

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