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2021 Juddmonte Mating Plans Revealed

The 2021 mating plans for the Juddmonte broodmare band were announced by the nursery on Monday. Juddmonte will stand five stallions in 2021 led by Frankel.

The undefeated wunderkind and Group 1 sire Frankel became the fastest European stallion ever to reach 40 group winners and celebrated another Group 1 winner in 2020-Grenadier Guards (Jpn). An even two dozen Juddmonte mares are booked on his dance card, among them MG1SW Ventura (Chester House), the dam of Group 3 winner Fount (GB) (Frankel {GB}); G1SW Emulous (GB) (Dansili {GB}); Bird Flown (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), the dam of MG1SW and Classic hero Siskin (First Defence); and Group 1 winner Quadrilateral (GB) (Frankel {GB})'s dam Nimble Thimble (Mizzen Mast). His book is enhanced by Group 2 winners Soffia (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) and Modern Look (GB) (Zamindar), as well as Group 3 winners Big Break (GB) (Dansili {GB]), Dandhu (GB) (Dandy Man {Ire}) and Visit (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Other mares that will be covered by the 13-year-old are: the dam of Group 2 winner Threat (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}), Flare of Firelight (Birdstone); Ruscombe (GB) (Dansili {GB}), the dam of 'TDN Rising Star' Petricor (GB) (Frankel {GB}); a half-sister to Classic hero Logician (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in Sleep Walk (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}); Atone (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a full-sister to G1SW Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}); Tendu (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), herself a full-sister to Showcasing (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}); MGSW & G1SP Restiadargent (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr})'s full-sister Tiadargent (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}); Very Good News (Empire Maker), out of Juddmonte blue hen Hasili (Ire) (Kahyasi {Ire}) and who has already foaled the Classic-placed Weekender (GB) to Frankel; and two half-sisters to fellow Juddmonte sire Kingman in Panzanella (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and Present Tense (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}).

A total of 20 Juddmonte mares will be sent to Kingman (GB), led by dual G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) and Kind (GB) (Danehill), the dam of Frankel (GB). The sire of three Group 1 winners in 2020, Kingman will also welcome top-flight winners Capla Temptress (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), Passage of Time (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Romantica (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), Samba Inc (Arg) (Include), and Special Duty (GB) (Hennessy). There are also a pair of Group 2 winners visiting the high-class miler in Lucky Kristale (GB) (Lucky Story), herself a half-sister to the dual Classic heroine Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), and Riposte (GB) (Dansili {GB}); while Group 3 winners Hot Snap (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and Sun Maiden (GB) (Frankel {GB}); and Helleborine (GB) (Observatory), the dam of the brilliant Calyx (GB) are also booked. Rounding out Kingman's 2021 partners are Scuffle (GB) (Daylami {Ire}), the dam of G1 St Leger hero Logician (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and her daughter Battlement (GB) (Dansili {GB}).

The first foals of Group 1-winning miler Expert Eye (GB) are now yearlings and Juddmonte continues to support the GI Breeders' Cup Mile winner at stud. The Group 1-placed Principal Role (Empire Maker) and fellow listed winners Scottish Jig (Speightstown), and Swiss Range (GB) (Zamindar) will visit the bay son of Acclamation (GB). Kilo Alpha (GB) (King's Best), the dam of the GSW & G1SP Juliet Foxtrot (GB) (Dansili {GB}); Photographic (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), herself the dam of Group 3 winner Shutter Speed (GB) (Dansili {GB}); a full-sister to Showcasing (GB) in Palmette (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}); and Strelka (GB) (Kingman {GB}), a half-sister to Derby/Arc hero Workforce (GB) (King's Best); are also slated to be covered by Expert Eye.

The developing sire Bated Breath (GB) sired Group 1 winner Viadera (GB) last term and he also has His Highness The Aga Khan's homebred GSW and G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud placer Makaloun (Fr) to go to bat for him in 2021 as a leading G1 French Derby hope. Viadera's dam, Sacred Shield (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}), Group 1 winner Proportional (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}), Group 3 winner Tested (GB) (Selkirk) and listed winners Alocasia (GB) (Kingman {GB}), and Rostova (Arch) and the unraced Meridiana (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) will all be covered by Bated Breath this year. The last-named is out of Group 1 winner Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Oasis Dream (GB) has now sired 200 stakes performers and is becoming a broodmare sire of note with four Group 1 winners in 2020. Juddmonte is sending the winning pair of Bonne Idee (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and Its a Given (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}), as well as Occurrence (GB) (Frankel {GB}), an unraced daughter of Arrive (GB) (Kahyasi {Ire}), a full-sister to Hasili (GB) (Kahyasi {Ire}). Shared Account (GB) (Dansili {GB}) will also return to Oasis Dream and she has already produced the Group 2-placed Sand Share (GB) and Group 3-winning Pocket Square (GB) to the roster veteran.

Naturally, some of Juddmonte's blueblooded broodmares are also visiting outside stallions, with Enable's dam Concentric (GB) (Sadler's Wells) returning to her sire Nathaniel (Ire), while her half-sister, the GSP Entitle (GB) (Dansili {GB}), will consort with Sea The Stars (Ire). Group 1 winners African Rose (GB) (Observatory) goes to Dark Angel (Ire); Announce (GB) (Selkirk) will be covered by Pinatubo (Ire); and three mares will visit Coolmore stallions–Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) to No Nay Never, Promising Lead (GB) (Danehill) to Calyx (GB), and Proviso (GB) (Dansili {GB}) to Wootton Bassett (GB). A trio of mares will hold court with Dubawi (Ire)-Group 1 winner Quadrilateral (GB) (Frankel {GB}), Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa)'s daughter Goldika (Ire) (Intello {Ger}), and listed winner Franconia (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Night of Thunder (Ire) receives Timepiece (GB) (Zamindar), while Golden Horn (GB) will cover Winsili (GB) (Dansili {GB]). Three mares will also visit Siyouni (Fr) (Pivotal {GB}) in France-Group 2 winner Obligate (GB) (Frankel {GB}), Deliberate (GB) (King's Best)-the dam of MGSW Headman (GB) (Kingman {GB})-and black-type winner Mori (GB) (Frankel {GB}), a daughter of the aforementioned Midday.

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Big Books and Breaking Records

The setting of new sire records in the modern era tends more than not to be a direct consequence of ever-greater book sizes. But they must still be acknowledged as legitimate breeding benchmarks as they will inevitably feature some outstanding performances. Just look at Mehmas (Ire)‘s tally of first-crop 2-year-old winners this term. Currently on 56 winners, he is already 17 clear of Iffraaj’s old record and in normal circumstances we might be entitled to expect his record to stand for many years. It may well do, but his strike rate of 53% winners to runners, achieved by quite a few other freshman sires down the years, suggests that the big total of winners is just as much a function of a big crop of runners. So, we cannot rule out another Mehmas-like total in the near future.

We could say the same about black-type records. Larger numbers of runners tend to be the reason why these records fall, but it’s not always so. Take the case of Frankel (GB), the sire who has posted the highest number of stakes winners (56) and group winners (41) of any European sire in the first five years of his career. Frankel has already eclipsed the previous records set by Dubawi after his first five years, which stood at 53 stakes winners and 35 group winners. Dubawi, in turn, took the record away from Galileo (Ire), who had amassed 51 stakes winners and 30 group winners after his first five years.

No one could accuse Frankel of relying on sheer numbers of runners to outpace Dubawi and Galileo. In fact, he has set the new standards with fewer runners than either of his major rivals. Hence he has posted superior strike rates–14.2% stakes and 10.4% group winners–than Dubawi and Galileo had at the same point in their careers. But Frankel really did get a head start on all his rivals by covering Europe’s best mares from the outset of his career, unlike either Galileo or Dubawi. As many as 62% of the mares that have produced Frankel’s runners so far can be classed as elite, which is in stark contrast to the corresponding percentages for the early runners by Dubawi (30%) and Galileo (35%). What’s certain is that Frankel will need to have very long innings at his current strike rate to overhaul Dubawi’s current mark of 171 stakes winners and, by my calculations, another 20-plus years to reach his sire’s tally of 298. It’s a sure sign of the times that Frankel not only has more group winners than Galileo after five years but also has nearly double the number of his grandsire Sadler’s Wells and has over three times what the great Northern Dancer had in their first five years.

Remarkably, there is yet another sire that can boast an even higher number of group winners in his first five years. Shadai’s Deep Impact (Jpn), the very definition of a big fish in a small pond, sired 47 group winners in his first five years with runners. The lack of serious competition among Japan’s stallion ranks possibly casts a shadow over such an achievement, as does the fact that Deep Impact’s percentage of group winners (7.4%) is not quite as good as the percentages posted by Frankel, Galileo or Dubawi all of whom average above 10% group winners to runners. To counter that argument, though, it must also be recognized that Japan has far fewer group races per head of population than Europe does. So, 47 group winners in five years is still a formidable achievement.

Not surprisingly, North America’s records for stakes winners and graded winners at the end of five years have also fallen quite recently. The phenomenal Uncle Mo set new standards at the end of 2019 with his 48 stakes winners and 26 graded winners. It’s hard to believe that there are now 19 sires with more stakes winners in their first five years than the great Danzig, but none will ever get close to his 21% strike rate.

Among sires who stood exclusively in America, few would have guessed that it wasn’t Speightstown, nor Distorted Humor, nor Scat Daddy that held the record prior to Uncle Mo, but the one and only Kitten’s Joy, a sire that perhaps still struggles for due recognition.

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Elarqam, Yafta Retired to Haras de Saint Arnoult

MGSW Elarqam (GB) (Frankel {GB}-Attraction {GB}, by Efisio {GB}), who ran third in the G1 Juddmonte International in 2019 for Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell, has been retired and will stand at Haras de Saint Arnoult in partnership with Shadwell next year. The three-time group winner will command €6,000. The partnership to stand the dark bay son of Classic heroine Attraction was brokered by Richard Venn.

“We are extremely excited to be standing Elarqam in France from next season, in partnership with Haras de Saint Arnoult,” said Shadwell Stud Director Richard Lancaster. “He was a prolific racehorse having won or placed in group races at two, three, four, and five years old. In an industry that is centred around genetics, the quality of his pedigree speaks for itself.”

Bred by Floors Farming, the colt was snapped up by Shadwell for 1.6 million gns out of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and sent to the yard of Mark Johnston. A winner of his debut at York, he captured the G3 Somerville S. next out. At three, he added a group placing in the G2 York S., and went two better at four, taking the York S. outright, one start prior to his Group 1 placing in the Juddmonte International, as well as two listed stakes wins. Kept in training this term, from four starts he added the G3 Legacy Cup at Newbury in September and was a nose second in the G3 Brigadier Gerard S. earlier in the season. Rated at 120, he retires with a mark of 17-6-1-3 and $462,032 in earnings.

“We are absolutely delighted to be able to get such an exciting stallion,” added Haras de Saint Arnoult’s Larissa Kneip. “He’s got the looks, the pedigree, and he’s proven on the racetrack that he’s not just a “specialist” in a particular restricted field, but a proper racehorse, able to adapt to any distance, any tactics, at any age, and deliver top-class performances with great regularity.”

Elarqam’s dam struck four times at the highest level, including the G1 1000 Guineas and Irish equivalent, and has already thrown the MGSP Cushion (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and G3 Sapphire S. hero Fountain of Youth (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Elarqam will be joined at stud by GSW and fellow newcomer Yafta (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}-Swiss Dream {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) at €2,500. The former Shadwell runner was purchased from Shadwell through Richard Venn, with breeding rights available.

“Yafta has been bought from Shadwell through agent Richard Venn by an owner of mine who has been wanting to invest in a speed sire for a while now, but it was hard to find the right profile,” said Kneip. “It’s the type of stallion that was missing from our roster here at Haras de Saint Arnoult, and the type of sire that we are in desperate need of here in France.”

A £280,000 yearling from the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, the Lordship Stud-bred won the G3 Hackwood S. as a sophomore and was also placed another three times a group level for Richard Hannon and Shadwell. The 5-year-old’s record stands at $181,511 with four wins and eight placings from 18 starts. Yafta is out of three-time listed winner Swiss Dream, herself a half-sister to French MGSW Swiss Diva (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), Group 3 winner and sire Swiss Spirit (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and the MGSP Swiss Franc (GB) (Mr. Greeley). The quartet were produced by MSW and G2 Flying Childers S. runner-up Swiss Lake (Indian Ridge {Ire}).

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Juddmonte Reveals 2021 Fees

The five-strong Juddmonte 2021 stallion roster, led by Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire})-the youngest stallion to sire 40 group winners in history, was announced on Tuesday. The Juddmonte wunderkind is siring 11% group winners to runners and 15% black-type winners to runners, and he will stand for £175,000 in 2021. At the sales, his highest-priced filly brought 2 million gns, while he also had a colt knocked down for 1.1 million gns during the recent Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1.

Although his oldest foals are only four, Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) has already sired two Classic winners, striking with Fearless King (GB) in the G2 German 2000 Guineas this season, one of 14 black-type winners this term. He was also represented by Group 1 milers Persian King (Ire) and Palace Pier (GB). The 9-year-old sired a trio of seven-figure yearlings, with a 2.7 million gns colt, a 1.45 million gns filly and a €1.1 million colt. His stud fee is unchanged at £150,000.

Group 1 winner Expert Eye (GB) (Acclamation {GB}), whose oldest progeny will soon go under the hammer at the foal sales is priced at £12,500. The G2 Vintage S. victor has 22 set to be offered at Tattersalls and another 10 at Goffs.

Roster veteran Oasis Dream (GB) (Green Desert) reached several important milestones in 2020, siring his 200th black-type performer in the juvenile colt Erasmo (GB), while his fillies have produced over 100 black-type performers including G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Siskin (First Defence), G1 Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) G1 Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and Group 1 winner Tawkeel (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}). Oasis Dream will stand for £20,000 and boasts 10% black-type winners to runners.

Consistent sire Bated Breath (GB) (Dansili {GB}) has accumulated 18 black-type performers and four group winners in 2020, included French group winners Cairn Gorm (GB) and Makaloun (Fr) with the latter also Group 1 placed. He will stand for £12,500.

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