Angel Bleu (Dark Angel x Cercle De La Vie) will become Sumbe's fifth stallion in 2024 and stand alongside Mishriff, Belbek, Golden Horde and De Treville, marking the partnership of Nurlan Bizakov and Marc Chan.
An exceptionally precocious and unusually tough dual Group 1 winner at two, Angel Bleu broke his maiden in April 2021 at Leicester before winning his next two races in a row. On the go from his debut until the end of October, he was the French champion and second highest rated juvenile in Europe in 2021.
Angel Bleu is the first horse this century to win both France's biggest 1,400-meter and 1,600-meter Group 1s for juveniles – a double achieved by breed-shapers Blushing Groom and Irish River.
An example of outstanding durability inherited from his maternal side, he ran twice in four days at two years old and won five out of his eight starts. He is Dark Angel's highest-rated Group 1-winning juvenile, rated superior to Dark Angel himself, and the only multiple Group 1 winner at two from 100 group winners descended from Acclamation.
Angel Bleu has proved he has trained on by winning the G2 Celebration mile at Goodwood in 2023 and that is why the owners have decided to supplement him for the G1 Queen Elizabeth II race at Ascot at the Champions Day.
His trainer Ralph Beckett said, “As well as being really talented, Angel Bleu is a very tough individual, whose race record shows he took his racing very well and kept coming back for more. To do it at two, three and four years old is a rare thing nowadays.”
Frankie Dettori commented, “One of the toughest and most consistent 2-year-olds I have ever ridden.”
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