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Anybody the details of all the horses and mares that were purchased?
Also, is this for presence in America because they seem to be turning the corner with their young stallions?
The sheikh’s pockets seem to know no bounds..
I was going to direct you to the terrific Stonerside website, with interactive links for all their mares and comprehensive lists of horses-in-training, but I find that the website has been taken down (within the last 48 hours, I looked at it on Tuesday).
The McNairs are mostly keeping their stallions, so it seems to be all about the HITs and the mares. They have a fabulous broodmare band – Karen’s Caper, Argentina, Ajina, the dams of Raven’s Pass, Congaree and Bob And John….
The Darley influx into the States has been slowly growing for a while now, the aim seems to be to have a solid racing and breeding base in every major racing nation.
Dubai is a trading nation and has been before the oil. In a sense what the sheik is doing is that he has a hand in every major market. I bet you can ring up Dalham hall within reason from a major country in the world and they will have a stallion that they ahve shares in that resides in your counrty or one close too it.
"Perhaps John Magnier and his partners in Coolmore are taking the view that the Americans, in digging up their dirt tracks, are also moving the goalposts for commercial breeders. Sooner or later even the Kentucky Derby is going to be run on a safer, synthetic surface and all those priceless dirt bloodlines at Keeneland will become about as fashionable as plus-fours and tank tops.
As luck should have it, the best young stallions at Coolmore are likely to produce horses that last the course. They run in longer races, over longer careers. And if that makes sires like Galileo and Montjeu the most fashionable in the world, so much the better."
So much for buying up all the American dirt horses.Quite a lot (as you get an idea from the names I posted) of the HITs and broodmares actually have a relatively European feel about them – Karen’s Caper won over here, Argentina is by Sadler’s Wells, Raven’s Pass you know about, many of the sires they have used are ones with success on both sides of the Atlantic (Storm Cat, Seeking The Gold, Gone West, Elusive Quality).
Stonerside may be an American stud, but it is not packed with typical speedy US dirt types.
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