His first few include the Group 1 scorers Aqlaam and Naaqoos, both of whom made a promising start with their first runners in 2013, and the list of those still awaiting their first runners includes Approve, Frozen Power, Power, Showcasing, Sri Putra, and Derrinstown Stud’s juvenile Group 1 star Arcano.
His first crop will be in action this year, and if how they were received in the auction ring is anything to go by, he will be among the leading freshman sires of 2014.
Five of his initial batch of yearlings fetched six-figured sums, with a top price of 300,000gns for a colt out of Cefira (by Distant View) that has now been named Musharrif. He also had 120,000gns and 100,000gns colts at Newmarket in addition to a €115,000 colt in Goffs and a €110,000 son at Deauville.
This popularity is hardly a surprise, for not only does he represent a major sire and influential sire line, but he won both the Group 1 Prix Morny and the Group 3 July Stakes as a two-year-old. Speed and precocity are highly valued traits.
He also has the attraction of being a grandson of the talented filly Tarwiya (by Dominion) and of coming from the family of not only a recent Group 1 sprint star, but several others who were big-race winners as juveniles.
Tarwiya won the Group 3 CL Weld Park Stakes at that age and she was runner-up in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, beaten just half a length by Twafeaj. The following spring she chased home Marling and Market Booster in the Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas.
Her grandson Big Audio (by Oratorio) won both the Listed Chesham Stakes and the Listed Stonehenge Stakes, over seven and eight furlongs respectively, as a juvenile, and another grandson, Godfrey Street (by Compton Place), won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes over five furlongs.
Her half-brother Blue Dakota (by Namid), who died young, won the Group 3 Norfolk Stakes over five furlongs at Ascot as a two-year-old, and that colt’s full-brother Namaya was third in the Group 2 Railway Stakes.
Arcano’s three-year-old campaign was restricted to just two outings, the first of which was a third place finish behind Dick Turpin in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes over seven furlongs at Newbury, but his grandam was classic placed, and his dam’s half-sister Tahara is the dam of the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp heroine Gilt Edge Girl (by Monsieur Bond) who, like Arcano, represents the broad Danzig (by Northern Dancer) sire line.
As a young sire who has so much speed in his pedigree, we may have, in Arcano, a source from which future sprint champions could emerge.
With his own sire getting horses who stay a wide variety of distances, and the presence of both Tarwiya and Daylami (by Doyoun) close up in his pedigree, he may also be capable of getting some top notch performers who stay a mile.
ARCANO (IRE)
Race record: Winner of 3 races, over 6 furlongs, at 2-3 years inc Prix Morny, Gr.1, July Stakes, Gr.2, 3rd Greenham Stakes, Gr.3, etc.
Stud record: Retired to stud in 2011. First crop are 2yo. Yearlings made 300,000gns, 120,000gns, 100,000gns, €115,000, €110,000, etc in 2013. Foals made 55,000gns, €62,000gns, €52,000, etc in 2013.
Stands at: Derrinstown Stud, Maynooth, Co Kildare. Contact Stephen Collins, Jimmy Lenehan, Enda Stanley, Rosie Byrne or Kay Skehan on +353 1 6286228.
Email: info@derrinstown-stud.ie
Website: www.derrinstown.com
Fee: €6,000 1st January SLF
DERRINSTOWN STUD
Derrinstown Stud, situated near the university town of Maynooth in Co Kildare, has expanded considerably over the past three decades, going from a single 375 acre farm to a group of 11 farms that encompass a total of more than 2000 acres.
There are currently five stallions on Derrinstown’s roster. The ace miler Intikhab (by Red Ransom), sire of the prolific international Group/Grade 1 star Snow Fairy, heads the line-up along with the fellow veteran Elnadim (by Danzig), the sprint champion who has sired the New Zealand Group 1 scorer Culminate and a string of European pattern scorers.
The other three horses are in the early years of their careers at stud.
The Group 1-winning miler Tamayuz (by Nayef) has caught the eye with his first two crops, getting the pattern winning juvenile sprinters Sir Prancealot and Brown Sugar in addition to three other stakes winners and various black type placed horses.
Early representatives for the high-class sprinter Haatef (by Danzig) include the Group 3 Acomb Stakes winner Treaty Of Paris and the five furlong listed scorer Sacred Aspect, while the team’s junior member is the Group 1 Prix Morny hero Arcano (by Oasis Dream) whose first crop will be at the races in 2014.