Belardo Moves To Bearstone Stud

Dual Group 1 winner Belardo (Ire) will move to Bearstone Stud in Shropshire for the 2023 breeding season. A former Darley stallion, he will stand for £6,500 next year.

The son of Lope De Vega (Ire) already has eight stakes winners worldwide with six of them successful at group level. Isabella Giles (Ire) won the G2 Rockfel S. and G3 Prestige S., while both Bellabel (Ire) and Gold Phoenix (Ire) won graded races at Del Mar in California. The former was also second in the GI Del Mar Oaks and third in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. Lullaby Moon (GB), Elysium (Ire), and Verona (NZ) are his other group winners.

Terry Holdcroft, owner of Bearstone Stud, said, “We are delighted that Darley has entrusted us with a stallion who

has made such a promising start at stud and was bred to 215 mares in the last two years. We purchased breeding rights in Belardo when he retired and were rewarded with Lullaby Moon. As a son and grandson of two exceptional stallions and with a ratio of group winners to runners that compares favourably with many of the best stallions at stud today, we are confident Belardo will prove extremely popular with British breeders.”

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MG1SW Reliable Man Returns to Gestut Rottgen

MG1SW and Group 1 sire Reliable Man (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}-On Fair Stage {Ire}, by Sadler’s Wells) will return to Gestut Rottgen for the 2021 covering season, the German stud announced on Monday. The grey spent his first four years there, before standing for three years in France-a year at Haras du Thenney and two at Haras d’Annebault. A fee for the 12-year-old, who also shuttles to Westbury Stud in New Zealand, will be announced later.

A winner of the G1 Prix du Jockey Club and the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. in 2011 and 2013, respectively, the N. P. Bloodstock-bred has sired 13 black-type winners, seven at the group level, to date, including G1 VRC Oaks winner Miami Bound (NZ), G1 New Zealand Oaks heroine Miss Sentimental (NZ), and German group winners Akribie (Ger), Narella (Ire), and Erasmus (Ger).

“‘We look forward to welcoming Reliable Man back to Röttgen,” stud manager Frank Dorff commented. “We shall certainly continue to support him with some of our best mares. In his first three years here we bred three group winners and a listed winner from only 13 foals. He consistently produces good looking, correct horses and they are able to run at two and then compete in the best races from 2000m-2400m at three.”

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