TRAINED in Ireland by Aidan O’Brien and bought for $1,100,000 as a yearling, Sergei Prokofiev was a group winner at Newmarket as a two-year-old in 2018, when Timeform assessed him among the top colts of the year in Europe.
This impressive Canadian-bred son of Scat Daddy also won a listed sprint in Ireland at three and he is now standing his first season as a stallion alongside Showcasing and Adaay at Whitsbury Manor Stud, close to Fordingbridge in Hampshire, at the very reasonable fee of £6,500.
Named after the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev was a spectacular winner as a two-year-old by seven and a half lengths in a maiden race at Navan in April, and then he added the Listed Rochestown Stakes at Naas by four lengths the following month.
Sent to Royal Ascot, he was a close third in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, only a length behind Calyx and Advertise, and he returned to winning form in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes over five furlongs at Newmarket, coming from last to first to score by more than a length, ahead of the triple winner Well Done Fox.
In 2019 Sergei Prokofiev started off in winning form in the Listed Cork Stakes over five and a half furlongs at Navan, finishing fast to defeat 14 others, and then he was a close fourth to Mabs Cross in the Group 3 Palace House Stakes at Newmarket.
Scat Daddy, the sire of Sergei Prokofiev, won the Grade 1 Florida Derby and the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes and he is a leading sire in the USA, with over 130 stakes winners to his credit.
They include Triple Crown star Justify and such European stars as No Nay Never (champion two-year-old colt in France and sire of Ten Sovereigns), Caravaggio (Group 1 Commonwealth Cup), Sioux Nation (Group 1 Phoenix Stakes) and Mendelssohn (Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf).
This is the male line of Storm Cat and so is a very good outcross for most Irish and British broodmares.
Sergei Prokofiev is the first foal of his dam Orchard Beach, a half-sister by Tapit to Necessary Evil, winner of the Hollywood Juvenile Championship in California. His grandam Song And Danz is half-sister to stakes winner Forest Danz.
This is the family of champion two-year-old filly Over All whose successes in the USA included the Grade 1 Matron Stakes and the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes.
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (CAN), Bay or Brown 2016. Won four races, £137,453, from 5 furlongs to 5½ furlongs, at 2 and 3 years including, Godolphin Cornwallis Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Coolmore War Command Rochestown Stakes, Naas, L, Cork Stakes, Navan, L, also placed third in Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2.
Retired to Stud in 2021.
Stands at: Whitsbury Manor Stud, Nr Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England.
Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper.
Telephone: +44 (0) 1725 518254.
Email: whitsburymanorstud@btopenworld.com
Web: www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk
Fee: £6,500