Marcel to stand the 2019 breeding season at Anngrove Stud

The 2015 Racing Post Trophy scorer Marcel will stand the 2019 breeding season at Anngrove Stud in County Laois at a £3,000 fee, in a deal brokered by Dermot Farrington.

The six-year-old son of Lawman stood his first two seasons at the National Stud in Newmarket, with his oldest crop now yearlings.

"Marcel is a smashing-looking individual with size and scope," said Alastair Pim, owner of Anngrove. "The foals I saw at the sales by him have inherited his good looks and athleticism and are all bay or brown foals. He certainly stamps his stock."

Bred by David Hyland of Oghill House Stud, Marcel was bought by agent Mick Flanagan for €50,000 as a Goffs November foal, before changing hands for 26,000gns when purchased by Troy Steve at Tattersalls Book 2 a year later.

belied his price-tag when winning two of his three juvenile starts including a Newcastle maiden by almost four lengths and the Racing Post Trophy (now the Vertem Futurity), in which he claimed the scalp of Johannes Vermeer and odds-on favourite Foundation.

His only start as a three-year-old was an out-of-sorts run in the 2,000 Guineas won by Galileo Gold.

Trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam and raced as a juvenile by Paul Hancock, Marcel was acquired by Paul Makin before his Guineas run, with Makin retaining an interest in the stallion.

Marcel is out of the Marju mare Mauresmo, an unraced full-sister to the Group 2 Diadem Stakes runner-up Munjiz, with top-flight scorers Annoconnor and At Talaq offspring of Marcel's third dam My Nord.

Anngrove's new arrival replaces another Group 1-winning juvenile on the roster, after Dewhurst hero Tobougg died just before Christmas due to a suspected case of laminitis at the age of 20.

Marcel will stand the upcoming breeding season alongside Aiken, Famous Name and Vendangeur.

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