MULTIPLE group winner Racinger (Spectrum) relocates to Anshoon Stud in Co Kilkenny for the 2023 breeding season, where he will join Donal White’s two exciting young National Hunt sires, Night Wish and Saintgodrel.

The high-class miler, four of whose five victories were in group races, is a half-brother to the exciting young French jump sire Magneticjim. At the weekend Racinger sired the Willie Mullins-trained El Barra, victorious in the Grade 3 Paddy Power Feel Like A Favourite Novice Chase at Cork. In April the gelding won the Grade A Punchestown Novice Handicap Chase at the Festival, and finished third in the Galway Plate.

Donal White, who had the assistance of French agent Vincent Le Roy in acquiring Racinger, feels that the Group 2 winner’s speed over a mile will set him apart from other National Hunt sires. “I liked his race record and the fact that he won over a mile. I think he offers something different for the National Hunt market and complements my two other sires,” he said.

Racinger has spent his stud career to date in France and so far has sired a number of high-class performers, including Gigginstown House Stud’s Grade 2 hurdle and chase winner Farouk D’Alene, trained by Gordon Elliott, who was touched off in the Grade 1 Faugheen Novice Chase in Limerick at Christmas.

His best performers in France include the Auteuil listed winners Goas Mat and Celtior.

Racinger’s pedigree is packed with blacktype, and he is a half-brother to a pair of Group 1 winning full-brothers in the Prix Ganay scorer Corre Caminos and Group 1-winning two-year-old Recital, both sons of Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells). Another half-brother, Magneticjim (Galileo), was snapped up for stud duties by the renowned Haras du Montaigu. Their half-sister Dawn Dane (Danehill) is grandam of this year’s Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes winner Dalika (Pastorius).

The dam of Racinger, Dibenoise (Kendor) is a half-sister to Battani (Top Ville), the winning dam of Grade 1 Future Champions Finale Juvenile Hurdle winner Me Voici (Saint Des Saints) and grandam of L’Unique (Reefscape) who won the Grade 1 Anniversary Four-Year-Old Hurdle at Aintree.

Good outcross

“He is a son of Spectrum and out of a Kendor mare, so he is a good outcross for a lot of the mare population, particularly those with Sadler’s Wells blood,” White said. Spectrum is the sire of Grade 1 winning jumpers Glencove Marina, Spectroscope and Sunray.

Racinger has been a hit at the store sales from limited opportunities. This year he is sire of a gelding who made €100,000 to Hamish Macauley and Bryan Cooper at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale. At the Goffs Land Rover Sale Ballycrystal Stables bought a son of his for €70,000, while Highflyer Bloodstock went to €80,000, on behalf of Nicky Henderson, for a Racinger gelding.