'It's a real honour' - Juddmonte to offer mares at Inglis Chairman’s Sale

Juddmonte will give buyers in the southern hemisphere a rare opportunity to invest in some of their most influential bloodlines when they offer three mares at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on May 6.

Offered as part of Olly Tait’s Twin Hills Stud draft, the exciting trio is headed by Invincible Spirit mare Escapement, who will be offered in foal to Juddmonte’s champion Frankel, while unbeaten two-year-old Lucid Dreamer will also go under the hammer in foal to the son of Galileo.

The trio is completed by Ludisia, a daughter of Frankel, and she will go under the hammer in foal to Kingman, who stands alongside Frankel at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket.

Juddmonte’s UK stud director Simon Mockridge said the Inglis sale presented a unique opportunity to showcase the stud’s best known families.

“The development of the Inglis Chairman’s Sale over the past few years has been noteworthy, making it an obvious choice for Juddmonte to showcase a select group of mares from some of our most established families,’’ Mockridge said.

Escapement and Lucid Dreamer will be offered in foal to champion sire FrankelCredit: Edward Whitaker

“The mares to be consigned under Olly Tait’s Twin Hills banner represent a unique opportunity for the Australian market to appraise and invest into deep Juddmonte pedigrees honed over generations and carrying to two elite international sires.

“Over the years, Juddmonte families have enjoyed great success in Australia/New Zealand through the likes of Group 1 winners Makybe Diva, Mr Baritone, Leicester, Kings Will Dream, Royal Performer and Queen Supreme and these results have been further buoyed by the emergence of Frankel and Kingman as sires of significant importance to the market.

“From relatively limited opportunities, Frankel has made a sensational start in Australia with a staggering 30 per cent black-type performers-to-runners and a world class 13 per cent Group winners-to-runners, including the likes of multiple Group 1 winners Converge and Hungry Heart.’’

Australian buyers are rarely afforded the chance to buy stock by Frankel and, given his success in the country, the two mares carrying foals by the stallion will no doubt render a whole host of admirers when they are offered at Riverside Stables.

Frankel’s ability to sire top-class performers all over the world was advertised once again in Australia last weekend, when his son Converge landed the Randwick Guineas for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable.

The stallion’s statistics in the country make for impressive reading, with 54 starters having yielded 34 winners, firing at a strike rate of 67.3 per cent, while those winners are headed by nine stakes scorers, which represents an extraordinary strike rate of 15.2 per cent.

The trio of mares on offer are from some of the best known families in the stud book, once again highlighting the extraordinary influence the Juddmonte brand has within the industry.

Escapement is out of winning Zamindar mare and she is a sister to Group 1 winner Timepiece and is also a half-sister to Group 1 scorer Passage Of Time, the dam of Group 2 winner and now Little Avondale Stud shuttler Time Test.

Further afield the mare hails from the same family as multiple Group 1-winning champion Twice Over.

Ludisia is a full-sister to Group 3 winner Fair EvaCredit: Mark Cranham

Meanwhile, the unraced Ludisia is out of the Group 1-winning sprinter African Rose, making her a sister Group 3 scorer Fair Eva. African Rose is also a sister to Group 3 winner Helleborine, who in turn produced Group 2 winner and now Coolmore Stud shuttler Calyx. The mare will be offered in foal to Kingman, meaning the resulting foal will be a three-quarter sibling to the 2018 Coventry Stakes winner.

Dual winner Lucid Dreamer will also be offered at the boutique sale later on this year. A winner of both of starts as a two-year-old, she is a daughter of three time-winning Oasis Dream mare Sleep Walk and she is herself a three-quarters siter to Tarentaise, the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed sprinter Equilateral.

Lucid Dreamer will be offered in Frankel, meaning she is carrying a three-quarter sibling to Sleep Walk’s half-brother, 2019 St Leger winner Logician, as well as Listed scorer Collide.

Further back this is the same family as Listed winner Tantina, the dam of Group 1 winner Cityscape and Group 2 winner Bated Breath, who now stands at Banstead Manor.

Tait said they were looking forward to offering the mares at the Sydney sale.

“We are naturally delighted to be presenting these mares at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on behalf of Juddmonte,” he said.

“The mares represent some of Juddmonte’s finest families, that have been carefully developed over decades and they would be worthy of a place in any broodmare band in the world."

Senior bloodstock consultant and Inglis’ European representative Harry Bailey said each of the three mares would be highly sought after.

“This is a significant coup for the Chairman’s Sale and an unprecedented opportunity for Australasian breeders’’ he said.

“The Juddmonte breeding operation is arguably the best in the world, so to have the opportunity to offer for sale mares they have specifically identified and managed with the Australian market in mind is a real honour.

“The catalogue is coming together beautifully and with entries closing soon, I encourage anyone with a mare that they think suitable, to contact a member of our bloodstock team to discuss arrangements.”

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