ALTHOUGH a large number of sons of the great Danzig (by Northern Dancer) got at least one Group/Grade 1 winner at stud, only two have forged their own branch of his line: Green Desert and Danehill.
Kingston Hill represents the latter. An unbeaten Group 1 winner at two and a Derby-placed classic star at three, the first-crop son of multiple Group 1 ace Mastercraftsman (by Danehill Dancer) joins his sire at Coolmore Stud.
He is out of Group 3 Prix de Flore winner Audacieuse (by Rainbow Quest) and his half-sister Ile Deserte (by Green Desert) is the dam of the Group 2 Coventry Stakes third St Barths (by Cadeaux Genereux), one of several in the family with notable two-year-old form.
His grandam Sarah Georgina (by Persian Bold) won at two, and in addition to Audacieuse, her stakes-winning son Lord Jim (by Kahyasi) and his half-brother Group 3 Acomb Stakes winner and Group 2 Champagne Stakes third Waiter’s Dream (by Oasis Dream), she is also notable as being the grandam of Reduit (by Lion Cavern) who was runner-up in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.
Third dam Dance By Night (by Northfields), who won twice at the age of two, gave us the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas) and Group 1 Prix de la Foret heroine Danseuse Du Soir (by Thatching) and she is the grandam of the Group 1 Gran Criterium scorer Scintillo (by Fantastic Light), Italy’s top-rated juvenile of 2007.
Many will also remember Scintillo’s half-brother Jumbajukiba (by Barathea), the prolific gelding whose pattern wins included the Group 3 Gladness Stakes and two editions of the Group 3 Solonaway Stakes.
Sarah Georgina is also a half-sister to the dual listed scorer Dana Springs (by Aragon), to the Group 2-placed stakes winner Don Corleone (by Caerleon), to Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club (French Derby) third Circus Dance (by Sadler’s Wells) and to Danseuse Du Nord (by Kahyasi), the Group 2 Prix de Mallaret third whose blacktype descendants include the Grade 1-placed multiple US Grade 3 scorer Danzon (by Royal Academy).
In the fourth generation you will find the classic-placed Italian filly Aria Di Festa (by Orpen), her Group 2-placed dual stakes-winning daughter Mixed Intention (by Elusive City), and various other blacktype horses.
Kingston Hill’s St Leger victory showed that he stayed a bit further than might have been expected given the amount of precocity and seven to 10-furlong talent in his family.
His own two-year-old form, combined with being a Mastercraftsman half-brother to the dam of a Royal Ascot two-year-old, suggests that, with the right mares, he might even get juveniles that show more precocity than he did.
2nd top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2013. Champion 3yr old stayer in Europe in 2014. Won four races, £1,104,278, from 7 furlongs to 1 mile 6½ furlongs, at 2 and 3 years including, Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.1, Racing Post Trophy, Doncaster, Gr.1, Autumn Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, also placed second in Investec Derby Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.1. Retires to Stud in 2016
Stands at: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co Tipperary,
Ireland Contact: Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh
Telephone: +353 (0) 52 6131298
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