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Mattmu to Stand at Bearstone Stud For 2022

Group 2 winner Mattmu (GB) (Indesatchel {Ire}), who was born and raised at Bearstone Stud, will stand there for £2,500 (Oct. 1st SLF) in 2022. Successful in the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte and G3 Phoenix Sprint, the bay was also third in the G1 Nunthorpe S. at York. From a select first crop of foals, Mattmu has a pair of winners from five runners, and one of his winners, Favourite Child (GB), ran second at listed level in France.

Terry Holdcroft, owner of Bearstone Stud, commented, “Mattmu has impressed us with the quality of his stock and his

early results indicate that he is capable of upgrading his mares. We are delighted to welcome him back to the stud where he was born and believe he deserves the opportunity to cover a larger book of mares and build on his early success.”

He is joined by Group 1 winner and sire Dream Ahead and Washington DC (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}).

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Dream Ahead on the Move to Bearstone Stud

Dream Ahead (Diktat {GB}), the sire of Breeder' Cup heroine Glass Slippers (GB), will move to Bearstone Stud in 2022. The sire of 32 black-type winners worldwide will command £7,500 (Oct. 1 SLF).

A winner of five Group 1 races including the G1 July Cup and G1 Middle Park S., the 13-year-old first stood at Ballylinch Stud in Ireland in 2012 and later moved to Haras de Grandcamp in France in 2016. He also spent several seasons in Australia and has Group 2 winners Phobetor (Aus) and Shumookh (Aus) to his credit in that hemisphere. His 13 group winners are led by a quartet of Group 1 winners and besides his three-time Group 1 winner Glass Slippers, has dual Group 1 winner Dream of Dreams (Ire), and young sires Donjuan Triumphant (Ire) who won the G1 British Champions Sprint S. and G1 Prix Jacques Le Marois victor Al Wukair (Ire). From his Northern Hemisphere crops, the bay has sired the winners of 672 races who have earned more than £12.5 million.

Bred by Darley in Kentucky, Dream Ahead is out of Group 2 winner Land of Dreams (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) and will stand alongside Washington DC (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) at Bearstone.

Terry Holdcroft, owner of Bearstone Stud, said, “We are delighted to be working with Ballylinch Stud and extremely proud they have entrusted us with such a high-class stallion as Dream Ahead. His record as a sire of Group 1 sprinters speaks for itself and it will be a pleasure to have him at the stud alongside his daughter Glass Slippers who has given us so many treasured memories during the last few years. It is also particularly good news that a stallion of his quality will be available to British breeders, and we are confident he will prove extremely popular with our clients.”

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King George For Glass Slippers

Bearstone Stud's Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) is on track to make her first start since winning last year's GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint in Goodwood's G2 King George S. on July 30. The three-time Group 1 winner finished second in that race last year to Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), and is set to meet that champion sprinter again.

Trainer Kevin Ryan said of Glass Slippers, “She's great and is heading for Goodwood now. She'll start her season down there.”

A winner of the 2019 G3 Prix du Petit Couvert and G1 Prix de l'Abbaye in consecutive starts, Glass Slippers had been set to return in the G1 King's Stand S. at Royal Ascot, but was sent to the sidelines with a pulled muscle. She captured her second Group 1 in the Flying Five S. at The Curragh last September and the bay ran second in the 2020 l'Abbaye prior to her Breeders' Cup heroics.

“She just pulled a muscle and had to have a couple of days easy,” Ryan explained of the daughter of the Mind Games (GB) mare Night Gypsy (GB). “We weren't going to take any chances with her. She's fine now and we're looking forward to Goodwood.”

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Mattmu Has His First Winner At Redcar

Bearstone Stud's first-season sire Mattmu (GB) (by Indesatchel {Ire}) became the latest to get off the mark as Favourite Child (GB) captured Redcar's racingtv.com EBF Restricted Novice S. on Monday. Sent off at 8-1, the Karl Burke-trained filly who had been fourth on debut at Southwell Apr. 26 tracked the leaders early and after seizing the advantage with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining held on to score by a neck from Chief's Will (Ire) (Slade Power {Ire}).

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