Chindit makes his mark at Ascot

BRED by Michael Fitzpatrick’s JC Bloodstock and Rory Mahon Bloodstock at Kilminfoyle House Stud, Chindit won his second start of 2020 when adding the Listed Pat Eddery Stakes at Ascot to a maiden success on his debut at Doncaster three weeks earlier.

He is a most exciting prospect for the Richard Hannon stable and owner Michael Pescod.

The first foal of Always A Dream (Oasis Dream), a winner over seven furlongs at Wolverhampton at three, Chindit is a son of Wootton Bassett (Ifraaj). He sold to Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock for 65,000gns as a yearling. His year younger yearling half-brother is a son of Awtaad (Cape Cross).

Always A Dream is the first foal and only winner so far for the unraced Always Remembered (Galileo), but she is unlikely to be the last. The mare has a three-year-old filly Goldie Hawk and two-year-old colt Anzac Cove, both by Golden Horn (Cape Cross), a yearling colt by Muhaarar (Oasis Dream) and a colt foal by Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit).

Anzac Cove was purchased last year by Stroud Coleman for 300,000gns.

Always Remembered is one of 11 foals out of the listed Goodwood winner Out West (Gone West). Seven of her foals won and two stand out. They are the full-brothers Motivator and Macarthur, both sons of Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells). Motivator won the 2005 Group 1 Derby, a year after he won the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy, and he went on to become a leading sire. Macarthur gained his biggest success in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes, was Group 1 placed, and four years ago, at the age of 12, won a pair of point-to-points.