THE breeding industry was dealt a blow when classic-placed dual Group 1 sprint star Mozart (by Danehill) died aged just four, but the nine stakes winners that his sole crop yielded include Dandy Man, a rising star among the sprint sires.
He was a listed scorer at two, took the Group 3 Palace House Stakes at three and was a Group 1-placed stakes winner at four, and from three crops of racing age he has already done something that many stallions never achieve – sire a son who is better than he was.
Peniaphobia, who represents his first crop, won the Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury as a juvenile, joined the Tony Cruz stable, and rounded off 2015 with victory in the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin, his third major win at the venue.
The gelding kicked off 2016 with a third place finish behind Aerovelocity in the Listed Centenary Sprint Cup (local Group 1 only) last month, also over six furlongs.
In September the Richard Hannon-trained juvenile Orvar took a valuable listed contest (local Group 3 only) over six furlongs at Veliefendi, and that was just days after the tragic death of the Olly Stevens-trained star Extortionist. Winner of the Group 3 Coral Charge and Listed Windsor Castle Stakes, the colt was narrowly beaten in the Group 3 Sapphire Stakes, in the Group 2 King George Stakes and when third to Sole Power and Stepper Point in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes.
Dandy Man has also sired the stakes-placed Abbakova, Thatsallimsaying and Squats, last year’s Doncaster Spring Mile winner Chatez, and Parbold, a first-crop son who was placed in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes and Group 2 Vintage Stakes.
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That he is a sprinter who gets mostly sprinters is no surprise as the grandson of Danehill (by Danzig) is out of Group 3 Anglesey Stakes and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes heroine Lady Alexander (by Night Shift).
That makes him a half-brother to the dam of Group 1-placed sprint pattern scorer Hamza (by Amadeus Wolf) and also to the flying filly Anthem Alexander (by Starspangledbanner), the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner and Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes runner-up who was third in the inaugural Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Ascot.
His grandam is the stakes-winning sprinter Sandhurst Goddess (by Sandhurst Prince), whose descendants include the Royal Ascot-placed juvenile stakes winner Patience Alexander (by Kodiac), and the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes scorer Sudirman (by Henrythenavigator) appears under a branch of the third generation of his family.
Jt top rated 3yr old sprinter in England in 2006. Top rated 3yr old sprinter in Ireland in 2006. Won six races, £285,835, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, 2 to 6 years including, Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Tipperary Stakes, Tipperary, L, King of Beer Stakes, Curragh, L, Woodlands Stakes, Naas, L, also placed second in King’s Stand Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Flying Five, Curragh, Gr.3, and third in Nunthorpe Stakes, York, Gr.1, King George Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, Dubai International Airport World Trophy, Newbury, Gr.3.
Retired to stud in 2010, and sire of the winners of 134 races, and £3,873,564 including PENIAPHOBIA (IRE), EXTORTIONIST (IRE), ORVAR (IRE), Parbold (IRE), Thatsallimsaying (IRE), Abbakova (IRE), Squats (IRE), CHICLET (IRE), GO DAN GO (IRE), CHATEZ (IRE), etc.
Stands at: Ballyhane Stud, Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow, Ireland
Contact: Joe Foley or Jane Foley
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