A DOUBLE Group 1 star, including the Eclipse Stakes, Hawkbill was a multiple winner in each of his four seasons in training, amassing earnings of £3,549,473 from his 10 victories. This talented son of top American sire Kitten’s Joy is now standing his first stud season at Dalham Hall Stud at Newmarket at the very reasonable fee of £7,500.

Kitten’s Joy also won two Grade 1 events, at Belmont Park and Arlington, and he was champion sire in the USA in 2013. He now has 89 blacktype winners to his credit, including world champion Roaring Lion among whose successes in 2018 were the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes and Group 1 Juddmonte International, Breeders’ Cup Sprint hero Bobby’s Kitten, Belmont Derby star Oscar Performance and nine other Grade 1 scorers.

Hawkbill was purchased by Godolphin for $350,000 as a yearling and he is a half-brother to Free Drop Billy, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland in 2017. Their dam Trensa, by Giant’s Causeway, was a graded-placed winner of three races and she is out of Serape, successful in the Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga.

Trained by Charlie Appleby, Hawkbill won his last three starts as a two-year-old and then added his first three outings the next season, starting with the Listed Newmarket Stakes at the Guineas meeting, before scoring in the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot. Two weeks later he was sent to Sandown Park, where he defeated The Gurkha by half a length in the Group 1 Coral Eclipse Stakes, for which he had been supplemented. Hawkbill ended that season with a third in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern at Munich and was rated on 125 by Timeform.

After beating My Dream Boat by two lengths early in 2017 in the Group 3 Aston Park Stakes at Newbury, Hawkbill was third to Highland Reel in the Group 1 Coronation Cup at Epsom. He returned to winning form in the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket in July, beating his stablemate Frontiersman, before running second in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin and the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes at Woodbine in Canada, just a head behind the winner.

Hawkbill went to Dubai for the winter and he began his final season in great style by winning the Group 2 Dubai City of Gold Stakes early in March 2018, again beating Frontiersman and breaking the track record. He had much stronger opposition three weeks later for the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic over a mile and a half, and he led all the way and won again by three lengths from Poet’s Word and Cloth of Stars. However, Poet’s Word took his revenge when Hawkbill was third in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot and Hawkbill then ended a brilliant racing career with fourth to Roaring Lion and Saxon Warrior in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes, after making most of the running.

HAWKBILL (USA). Won ten races, £3,549,473, from 7 furlongs to 1½ miles, 2 to 5 years including, Coral Eclipse Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.1, Longines Dubai Sheema Classic, Meydan, Gr.1, Arqana Princess of Wales’s Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, SkyCargo Dubai City of Gold Stakes, Meydan, Gr.2, Al Rayyan Aston Park Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, Tercentenary Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Havana Gold Newmarket Stakes, Newmarket, L, also placed second in Longines Grosser Preis von Berlin, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.1, Northern Dancer Turf Stakes, Woodbine, Gr.1, and third in Investec Coronation Cup, Epsom Downs, Gr.1, Pastorius Grosser Preis von Bayern, Munich, Gr.1, Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1.

Retires to Stud in 2019.

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

Contact: Dawn, David, Franziska, Antonin, Claudia or Lucie

Telephone: +44 1638 730070

Email: hello@darley.co.uk

Web: www.darleystallions.com

Fee: £7,500