Newsells Park Stud's famed producer and Group 1 winner Kinnaird dies aged 18
The 2005 Prix de l'Opera heroine later produced Berkshire
Kinnaird, winner of the 2005 Prix de l'Opera and an influential broodmare for Newsells Park Stud, has died at the age of 18 after suffering a bout of colic.
The rise and rise of Kinnaird is a genuine rags to riches tale, as she started out as an 8,000gns two-year-old but went on to claim Group 1 laurels and her progeny, who fetched over £1.5 million at the yearling sales, included six winners and three stakes horses, most notably Berkshire, and the dam of Ivawood.
She joined the burgeoning Newsells Park broodmare band at the conclusion of her four-year-old season, and Dollar remembers that the new addition provided something of a challenge for the team in her early days.
"She was quite a tough girl and she wasn't easy to manage initially," he said. "She couldn't get covered by her chosen stallion during her maiden year so she went to Red Ransom, which is when she produced Keenes Royale."
Kinnaird also produced Abdon, a Listed winner in Australia, and Ben Vrackie, a 450,000gns yearling who went on to finish second in the Group 3 March Stakes and the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes at Royal Ascot - beaten just a short head by Baghdad in the latter.
"She started off as quite a tough cookie but became a real sweetheart and everyone here absolutely loved her," continued Dollar. "She had terrible feet and was always prone to colic - she had three colic surgeries and a cecum bypass - so we had to manage her very carefully. And yet she still toughed it out and in the last couple of years she'd been looking fantastic.
"We've got a two-year-old by Oasis Dream who we didn't sell and, as we didn't know if she was going to have any more fillies, we decided to keep her Kingman yearling filly," said Dollar. "She'll go into training, although we're not sure who with yet."
Despite the heights she went on to scale, Kinnaird originally fetched just €10,000 when pinhooked as a yearling. Kinnaird was then reoffered through Willie Browne's Mocklershill at the Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale in 2003, where she was bought privately for a mere 8,000gns by her trainer.
Bred by Victor Stud, the daughter of Derby winner Dr Devious was out of the Be My Guest mare Ribot's Guest, making her a sibling to two winners, notably Chester Vase scorer Mickdaam.
Her second dam was Raysiya, granddam of the talented Salford Mill and great granddam of the mighty mare Laurens.
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