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Nando Parrrado Keeps Delivering for the McCartans

Paul and Marie McCartan know a thing or two about Nando Parrado (GB), having bought him as a foal, raced him, and retained part-ownership of the son of Kodiac (GB) since his retirement to the Irish National Stud. They were, therefore, pleased to be able to welcome the G2 Coventry S. winner's first foal on Saturday at their Ballyphilip Stud.

The filly foal is a daughter of Cafetiere (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}), who was herself a winning juvenile over five furlongs and is a half-sister to G3 Prix du Bois winner Percolator (GB) (Kheleyf). The mare has already produced the G2 Norfolk S.-placed Imperial Force (Ire) (Camacho {GB}).

Of the latest arrival at Ballyphilip, Paul McCartan said, “I'm delighted with her. We've had four mares foal already and they are all fillies but she is the best of them. She's a good size, with a strong gaskin and forearm, a very nice head, and she is very much the same shape as Nando Parrado himself. He was a very good-looking foal.”

Bred by Anita Wigan, Nando Parrado, who is out of the Argentinean Grade 3 winner Chibola (Arg) (Roy), was the pinhook that returned to Ballyphilip. McCartan, who is as noted as a foal buyer as he is as a breeder, bought him for 165,000gns as a weanling at Tattersalls and then bought the colt back at 200,000gns at the December Yearling Sale. It proved a shrewd move, as six months later Nando Parrado won the Coventry at Royal Ascot on his second start for Clive Cox. He was also runner-up in both the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere.

McCartan sent three mares to Nando Parrado in his first season at the Irish National Stud, where he is owned by a syndicate and covered 130 mares in total.

He added, “They all got in foal first pop. He's an extremely fertile horse. I've another mare due a foal by him on 10 February. I'm hoping to get some colts soon. The more fillies I have the more colts I'll be buying at the sales!”

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Lucky Vega To Stand For €15,000

Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), who stands his first Northern Hemisphere season next year at the Irish National Stud, will debut at €15,000. Raced by Yulong Investments, Lucky Vega won the G1 Phoenix S. at two and placed in this year's G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James's Palace S. before retiring to stand at Yulong's Australian headquarters.

Also new at the Irish National Stud for 2022 is last year's G2 Coventry S. winner and G1 Prix Morny and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere runner-up Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}). He will stand for €6,000.

Invincible Spirit (Ire) once again leads the Irish National Stud roster, and his standout performers in 2021 included Group 3 winner and Group 1 performer Pearls Galore (Fr) and G2 Rockfel S. scorer Hello You (Ire). Invincible Spirit, at the age of 24, is available for €60,000 next year, down from €80,000 in 2021.

G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain (Ire), whose first foals were born this year, will stand for €12,000 in 2022. National Defense (Ire), whose first-crop runners this year were highlighted by the GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint scorer Twilight Gleaming (Ire), will stand for €8,000.

The later-developing triple Group 1 winner Decorated Knight (GB) has supplied 10 first-crop winners this season, and he will stand for €7,500 in 2022. Free Eagle (Ire), whose high-class Dancing King (Ire) was one of the highlights of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale at 380,000gns, is available for €5,000.

Equiano (Fr), Elusive Pimpernel (Ire) and Dragon Pulse (Ire) will all stand for €2,000.

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Commonwealth Cup Goal For Supremacy

Last year's G1 Middle Park S. winner Supremacy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) has wintered well, according to trainer Clive Cox, and will stick to sprints for his 3-year-old campaign, with the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot his key early season target. Cox said the G3 Pavilion S. at Ascot on Apr. 28 and the G2 Sandy Lane S. at Haydock on May 22 are under consideration as starting points for the colt.

“Supremacy will stay at six furlongs, so we're looking at the Pavilion, the normal sprinting route–with possibly the Sandy Lane en route to Royal Ascot and the Commonwealth,” said Cox. “He's wintered really well and looks very strong. I'm very pleased with him indeed.”

Supremacy, who is three for four, was also the eye-catching four-length winner of the G2 Richmond S. last summer.

Cox will likewise hold a strong hand for both the colts and fillies Guineas, with Marie McCartan's G2 Norfolk S. winner Nando Parrado (GB) and Paul and Clare Rooney's G2 Rockfel S. and G3 Prestige S. winner Isabella Giles (Ire) (Belardo {Ire}) targeting the first weekend in May at Newmarket. Nando Parrado, at 150-1, was the longest shot to ever win a 2-year-old race at Royal Ascot, and he upheld his form by finishing second in the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. Isabella Giles wrapped up the season, in which she went six for four, with a ninth-place finish over the soft going in the G1 Fillies' Mile.

“We'll be looking at one of the trials for [Nando Parrado]–but I very much intend to run him in the Guineas, all being well,” Cox said. “He does handle soft ground but won at Ascot on a quicker surface. I'm pleased with how he has done physically.

“He was a very able 2-year-old who has done well over the winter so I see no reason why he can't maintain that performance at the top level at three.”

Cox said he expects Isabella Giles to bounce back from her Fillies' Mile performance, which came at the end of a busy campaign.

“The filly has done very well too–she's done some nice work and is making good progress,” he said. “I think she had a busy enough time in the autumn, and we probably ran her once too many by the time of the Fillies' Mile, and she'd just gone off the boil.

“I would be very pleased with her now. She's a Group 2 winner at two, and her work is pleasing me at the moment to suggest we can look forward to what she does at three.

“It's really nice to have the conversations we're having at this stage, and we're looking forward to more of them hopefully as the season progresses.”

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Nando Parrado Out Of Papin

Sunday’s G2 Prix Robert Papin was set to be a showdown between Royal Ascot winners Nando Parrado (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and The Lir Jet (Ire) (Prince Of Lir {Ire}), but that clash will have to wait with Nando Parrado having turned up lame on Friday morning.

“I’m afraid Nando pulled out a bit sore this morning,” trainer Clive Cox said of the 150-1 G2 Coventry S. winner. “It’s a huge disappointment, but we know we’ve got a serious horse on our hands and we just can’t take the risk. It’s just bad timing more than anything, but we can’t take him to France for a Group 2 when he’s just not 100%.”

Cox was non-committal with regards to next month’s G1 Prix Morny.

“We’ll see,” he said. “I don’t think it’s anything too major–I’m hopeful he’ll be alright in a few days. We think he’s a horse with a very bright future.”

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