A PROVEN source of high-class National Hunt performers, Malinas is set to continue his stallion career at Coolagown Stud in Fermoy, Co Cork from next year, in a joint-venture with Rathbarry Stud. The son of leading sire Lomitas (Niniski) and the German champion three-year-old filly Majoritat (Konigsstuhl), a close relation to the influential Monsun (Konigsstuhl), was a Group 2 winner over 11 furlongs and multiple Group 1-placed on the track.

Malinas has sired Grade 2 winners Black Thunder, Medinas, Mister Malarky, Touch The Eden and Union Dues, as well as Scottish Grand National hero Mighty Thunder, Greatwood Handicap Hurdle scorer Harambe, and the Grade 1-placed hurdlers Baltazar D’Allier, Easter Day and Tile Tapper. His daughter Malina Jamila made all to win a listed mares’ bumper for Neil King at Huntingdon on Sunday and she will be an exciting recruit to hurdling in time.

Malinas moved to Rathbarry Stud in 2016 and has been well supported with strong and sizeable books of mares there, and so has lots of well-bred youngsters in the pipeline. His first crop of Irish-bred four-year-olds include Dark Raven, an 11-length winner of the Tattersalls Ireland George Mernagh Memorial Sales Bumper for Willie Mullins, and Merry Maker, who scored in a Tipperary point-to-point in impressive fashion for Pierce Power.

Highly-reliable

Coolagown Stud’s David Stack said: “Malinas has proven to be a highly-reliable sire of high-class National Hunt horses, whether in bumpers, over hurdles or in chases, and with such strong books of mares covered at Rathbarry Stud his best days are still ahead of him. He’s an imposing dark bay and a beautiful mover with a lovely walk. He was a high-class performer on the track and hails from one of the best German pedigrees, one that is a complete outcross to Sadler’s Wells.”

Malinas will stand at Coolagown Stud in 2022 alongside Way To Paris, Zambezi Sun, Shantaram and Carlotamix, with fees for all the horses to be announced at a later date.