“Three weeks ago he was bouncing and his usual self, but within a short space of time it became apparent he had suffered a very acute brain injury, ” Hugh Suffern, principal of Tullyraine House Stud, told Racing Post. “He fought very hard for around three weeks, but eventually he succumbed in the middle of last week.”

A winner of the 2008 G1 St. Leger and GI Breeders’ Cup Turf for trainer Sir Michael Stoute, he was named the 2008 English Highweighted 3-year-old from 10 1/2-13 1/2 furlongs and 13 1/2 furlongs and up and the Eclipse Champion Grass Horse Stateside that year, too.

The chestnut returned as a 4-year-old and added Ascot’s G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S. and another edition of the Breeders’ Cup Turf to his resume and was awarded another championship in England, as the Highweighted Older Horse from 11-14 furlongs, while he was also third in the 2009 G1 Coral-Eclipse S.

Breeding rights in Conduit had been acquired by Big Red Farm prior to his second Breeders’ Cup win. Retired after a fourth-place finish in the G1 Japan Cup with a mark of 15-7-2-3 and $5,815,813 in earnings, Conduit served six seasons at Big Red Farm (2010-2015) before moving to Tullyraine House Stud in Ireland from 2016 onwards. At stud, he sired the GSP Daiichi Terminal (Jpn) and SP Kineo Pegasus (Jpn) in Japan, but his offspring have so far found more success in the jumping sphere.

Already responsible for G2 Great Voltigeur S. hero Hard Top (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), MSP Spray Gun (Ire) (Octagonal {NZ}) and the dams of G1 MacKinnon S. hero Glass Harmonium (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}), MGSW Arab Spring (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}), and G3 Tattersalls Musidora S. heroine Liber Nauticus (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}), as well as the granddam of English highweight, GI E. P. Taylor S. and G2 Middleton S. winner Blond Me (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}), Well Head produced Conduit as her final foal.

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The 15-year-old son of Dalakhani was the only Thoroughbred stallion in Northern Ireland at the time of his death, having moved to Tullyraine House Stud in 2016 after standing the first six seasons of his stallion career at Big Red Farm in Japan.

Conduit was a globetrotter for trainer Sir Michael Stoute and owner/breeder Ballymacoll Stud, but his two stops in the U.S. were both successful. Following a win in the 2008 English St. Leger Stakes, Conduit tested the 2008 Breeders' Cup Turf and won by a length and a half. The effort earned him the Eclipse Award as that year's champion turf male.

He picked up a win in the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes during the Royal Ascot meet the following year, and he ran fourth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, which propelled him into the 2009 Breeders' Cup Turf as a heavy favorite. Conduit ran down pacesetter Presious Passion to win by a half-length. The horse added one more stamp to his passport in his final career start, finishing fourth in the G1 Japan Cup.

In total, Conduit retired with seven wins in 15 starts for earnings of $5,815,813.

Conduit proved to be quite versatile with his Japanese-born runners, siring stakes-caliber runners on both the flat and over the jumps. He was used primarily as a National Hunt sire at Tullyraine House Stud.

Read more at Racing Post.

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