Now his juveniles have had another excellent year in 2013, with 17 winners of 23 races in Europe and almost €500,000 in prize money. Altogether, he has sired some 190 individual winners of over 485 races, who have earned more than €7,000,000 in prize money, among them 13 different blacktype scorers. There should be plenty more winners to come, as he covered 98 mares in 2013.
Clodovil’s star performer has been Nahoodh, who defeated Fleeting Spirit in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at York and trained on to score in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.
There are also three Group 2 winners to Clodovil’s credit, notably the grey Gregorian, who took the Hungerford Stakes at Newbury and the Diomed Stakes at Epsom, besides being placed twice in Group 1 races at Royal Ascot, the Queen Anne Stakes and the St James’s Palace Stakes. Moriarty was a dual Group 2 star in Australia, winning the Brisbane Cup, while Laugh Out Loud scored in the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham at Chantilly and was third in the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes.
Another good son of Clodovil is Beacon Lodge, who won the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes at Newbury as a two-year-old and went on to add the Group 3 Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord at Chantilly.
Rock My Soul, out of a mare by Cadeaux Genereux who is also the maternal grandsire of Gregorian, has scored four times in listed events in Germany, while Tuttipaesi won two listed races in Italy before her second in the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland.
Bred and raced by the late Jean-Luc Lagardere, Clodovil won his first five starts, scoring at Saint-Cloud in both his outings as a juvenile over 4.5 furlongs and 6 furlongs. His next three successes were all over a mile at Longchamp, as he reappeared at three years in the Prix Machado, to which he soon added the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau, coming from last to first, with the Irish raider Tomahawk only fourth.
Three weeks later, Clodovil made it five wins from five starts in the Group 1 Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the French 2000 Guineas, going ahead at the furlong marker to beat Catcher In The Rye by a length, with Elusive City further back.
Clodovil made a bold show in each of his other three races, all Group 1 events, running fifth to Zafeen in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot with Statue Of Liberty behind him, eighth of 12 to Six Perfections and Domedriver in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville, and finally fifth in the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp, in which he defeated Where Or When, Domedriver and Refuse To Bend.
In the International Classifications, Clodovil was assessed as the champion three-year-old colt over a mile trained in France in 2003.
Clodovil has inherited his grey colour from his maternal grandsire Linamix, through his dam Clodora, a real outcross whose three wins in France included the Group 2 Prix de l’Opera at the Arc Meeting and the listed Prix de la Calonne at Deauville. She has produced five other winners, among them Azamour’s son Colombian, who scored in the Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown Park and ran third in the Grade 1 Arlington Million.
The next dam Cloche D’Or, a daughter of Good Times, was a speedy two-year-old who scored in the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot and ran third in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at York. The female line traces to Argentina, half-sister to the dam of Coronation Cup winner Oncidium, a leading sire in Australia.
CLODOVIL (IRE)
Race record: Winner of 5 races in France, £186,220, from only 8 starts, at 2 and 3 years, 4.5-8 furlongs, inc. Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Longchamp, Gr.1, and Prix de Fontainebleau, Longchamp, Gr.3.
Stud record: Retired to stud in 2004. Sire of over 190 winners of more than 485 races and €7,000,000 inc. Nahoodh (Falmouth Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Lowther Stakes, York, Gr.2; 2nd Matron Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1), Gregorian (Hungerford Stakes, Newbury, Gr.2, Diomed Stakes, Epsom, Gr.3), Moriarty (Brisbane Cup, Gr.2), Laugh Out Loud (Prix de Sandringham, Chantilly, Gr.2), Beacon Lodge (Horris Hill Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord, Chantilly, Gr.3), Rock My Soul (4 listed races in Germany), Miss Lahar, Coupe de Ville, etc.
Stands at:
Rathasker Stud, Kilcullen Road, Naas, Co Kildare.
Contact: Maurice Burns on 045 876940, or (mobile) 086 2500687
Email: info@rathasker.iol.ie.
Website: www.rathaskerstud.com
Fee: €12,000 (October 1st).
RATHASKER STUD
There are four stallions covering in 2014 at Rathasker Stud and the grey Clodovil, a son of Danehill who carried off the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, has made a great start, with Group 1-winning filly Nahoodh and 12 other blacktype winners to his credit.
Standing at Rathasker with him are Dansili’s group-winning son Thousand Words, whose first crop includes the high-class miler Top Notch Tonto, the talented juvenile Fast Company, who has his first 2-year-olds running in 2014, and Born To Sea, a half-brother to Galileo and Sea The Stars who was second to Camelot in the Irish Derby and is expecting his first foals.
Extending to 300 acres in Kilcullen Road at Naas in Co Kildare, with 125 boxes, Rathasker Stud is also a major vendor at many of the major European sales, offering mares, foals and yearlings.
The owner and manager of Rathasker Stud is Maurice Burns, who comes from a family which has been in the thoroughbred business for more than three generations. Since Paddy Burns purchased Rathasker in 1985, they have owned and bred many champion racehorses and have broken European sales records for both foals and yearlings.