THE world’s best three-year-old sprinter and a double champion in Australia, Sepoy is one of the best sons of the top American stallion Elusive Quality.

Bred in Australia by Sheikh Mohammed, Sepoy won 10 of his 12 starts in that country including four Group 1 events. He retired to Darley’s Kelvinside Stud in the Hunter Valley in 2012 and already has 24 individual winners in Australia to his credit.

His first European crop included 17 winners of 21 races in 2016, among them Kilmah, who won the Group 3 Prestige Stakes at Goodwood, and the Chantilly listed scorer Baileys Showgirl. Dabyah was third in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Chantilly and was rated among the eight best two-year-old fillies last season. Sepoy’s yearlings fetched prices up to €285,000 in 2016.

Sepoy scored first time out and then was an easy winner of the Blue Diamond Preview and the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude. In the valuable Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes, over six furlongs, he scored by four and a quarter lengths in the second fastest time ever and he went on to become the first since 1989 to complete the big two-year-old double in the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes. Sepoy was named the champion juvenile of 2010-11 in Australia and the best of that age in 35 years.

By the end of the 2011-12 season Sepoy was established as the best three-year-old sprinter in the world with a rating of 123, 5lbs clear of his closest rival. He won five consecutive starts that season, including the Group 1 Manikato Stakes and the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Ascot Vale Stakes in which he defeated the Group 1 winning sprinter Foxwedge.

Elusive Quality, the sire of Sepoy, was a top-class sprinter in the USA who set a new world record when winning the Grade 3 Poker Stakes at Belmont Park. He has been the champion sire in North America, with his star progeny including Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Raven’s Pass and the Kentucky Derby hero Smarty Jones.

Sepoy’s dam Watchful has also bred Mulaazem who won the Group 2 Autumn Stakes. She is an own-sister to Camarena, who won the Group 1 Queensland Derby and is the dam of Camarilla, successful in the Group 1 Sires’ Produce Stakes. The next dam Canny Miss is a half-sister to Group 1 stars Canny Lass and Canny Lad.

Champion 2yr old colt in Australia in 2010-11. Champion 3yr old colt in Australia in 2011-12. Won ten races, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, at 2 and 3 years viz., AAMI Golden Slipper Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.1, Coolmore Stud Ascot Vale Stakes, Flemington, Gr.1, Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.1, Sportingbet Manikato Stakes, Moonee Valley, Gr.1, Danehill Stakes, Flemington, Gr.2, Perri Cutten Caulfield Sprint, Caulfield, Gr.2, Blue Diamond Prelude (c&g), Caulfield, Gr.3, Maribyrnong Trial Stakes, Flemington, L, Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Preview (c&g), Caulfield, L, TPI Association Vain Stakes, Caulfield, L, also placed second in Jacob’s Creek Todman Slipper Trial, Rosehill, Gr.2.

Retired to stud in Australia in 2012 and Britain in 2013, and sire of the winners of 53 races, and over £1,000,000, including KILMAH (GB), BAILEYS SHOWGIRL (FR), Cortado (NZ), Executive Force (GB), She’s Positive (AUS), Dabyah (IRE), Chipanda (AUS), Unforgetable Filly (GB), Zarpoya (AUS), etc

Stands at: Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9HE, England.

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