TALLY-HO Stud has a long history of producing notable stallions and the team has added two new recruits for 2018, one a leading sprinter. He is Cotai Glory who, like young Group 1 sires Excelebration and Helmet, is a son of the Australian sprint ace and champion sire Exceed And Excel (by Danehill).
His precocity and speed, combined with being a representative of the Danehill (by Danzig) line, make it likely that he will be among the busiest young Irish stallions.
He got off the mark with an odds-on success at Bath in July of his juvenile season, followed that by chasing home Limato in a listed contest at Newbury and then lifted the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood. He should have won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster but, having broken quickly, led the field from the start and gone clear over a furlong out, he was two lengths ahead of his closest pursuer when, just yards before the line, he swerved, the saddle slipped, and jockey George Baker was unshipped.
A few weeks later he was out of the frame in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp but only beaten about four lengths by the winner, Move In Time.
Over the next three seasons, he ran a further 24 times, adding a Group 3 success at Newbury, beating Kingsgate Native in a listed contest at Doncaster, failing by just a neck to beat Profitable in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, taking third to Marsha in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes, fourth to Mecca’s Angel in another edition of that famous race, and at the age of five, running second in a Grade 2 sprint at Woodbine.
A half-brother to last season’s 10-furlong listed scorer Permission (by Authorized), Cotai Glory is a full-brother to the stakes-placed juvenile Excel’s Beauty and they are the three winners out of Continua (by Elusive Quality), an unraced full-sister to Group 1 Middle Park Stakes third Huntdown.
Cotai Glory’s grandam Infinite Spirit (by Maria’s Mon) was listed placed over a mile at two and she is out of Eternal Reve (by Diesis), a Group 3 Matron Stakes winner who was runner-up in both the Group 1 Coronation Stakes and Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. That half-sister to Grade 1 Hollywood Derby scorer Eternity Star (by Majestic Light) was, in turn, out of Group 2 Lowther Stakes-placed juvenile stakes winner Northern Eternity (by Northern Dancer).
Cotai Glory looks likely to get smart juveniles plus talented sprinters and milers.
COTAI GLORY (GB), Chesnut 2012. Won four races, £315,811, over 5 furlongs, 2 to 4 years including, Dubai International Airport World Trophy, Newbury, Gr.3, bet365 Molecomb Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, J20 Spritz Scarbrough Stakes, Doncaster, L, also placed 2nd King’s Stand Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Nearctic Stakes, Woodbine, Gr.2, Dubai International Airport World Trophy Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, Apollobet Achilles Stakes, Haydock Park, L, Compton Estates Rose Bowl Stakes, Newbury, L, and 3rd Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes, York, Gr.1 and John Smith’s City Walls Stakes, York, L (twice).
Retires to stud in 2018.
Stands at: Tally-Ho Stud, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Ireland.
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