Dream Ahead joins Terry Holdcroft's Bearstone Stud for 2022

Group 1 sire Dream Ahead is on the move from France to Bearstone Stud in Shropshire for 2022.

The son of Diktat, who won five top-level races including the July Cup and Middle Park Stakes, has a firm fan in Bearstone's owner Terry Holdcroft as he sired his own Group 1 sprinter Glass Slippers.

Dream Ahead is well-travelled, having begun his career at Ballylinch Stud in 2012, shuttled to Australia and spent the last four years at Haras de Grandcamp.

He is the sire of 32 stakes winners and 13 at Group level, most notably Dream Of Dreams (Diamond Jubilee Stakes and Haydock Sprint Cup), Donjuan Triumphant (British Champions Sprint) and Al Wukair (Prix Jacques le Marois)

His leading earner is Glass Slippers, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, the Flying Five and Prix de L’Abbaye.

Holdcroft said: "We are delighted to be working with Ballylinch Stud and extremely proud they have entrusted us with such a high-class stallion as Dream Ahead.

"His record as a sire of Group 1 sprinters speaks for itself and it will be a pleasure to have him at the stud alongside his daughter Glass Slippers who has given us so many treasured memories during the last few years.

"It is also particularly good news that a stallion of his quality will
be available to British breeders, and we are confident he will prove extremely popular with our clients.”

Dream Ahead will join Washington DC at Bearstone and his fee has been set at £7,500.

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