Study Of Man retired to stand at Lanwades Stud in Newmarket

Last year's French Derby winner Study Of Man has been retired and is to stand at Lanwades Stud in Newmarket.

Bred and raced under the Niarchos family's Flaxman Stables banner, the Pascal Bary-trained colt also finished second to Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Waldgeist in this year's Prix Ganay, and was later runner-up to Zabeel Prince in the Prix d'Ispahan.

He is by the late Japanese super-sire Deep Impact out of a Storm Cat daughter of the legendary Miesque. Lanwades owner and general manager Kirsten Rausing is delighted to extend a long-standing partnership with the owners.

"We are thrilled to see French Derby winner Study Of Man join fellow Derby winners Sir Percy and Sea The Moon, as well as Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Bobby's Kitten, at Lanwades," she said.

"I am immensely grateful to Maria Niarchos Gouaze and the entire Niarchos family for letting us have Study Of Man at Lanwades. It's great to be able to continue a long-standing friendship and co-operation which goes back to the early 1980s.

"At that time Mr Stavros Niarchos was a shareholder in Lanwades' flagship sire, Niniski, from whom he bred Group 1 winners Louis Cyphre and French Derby winner Hernando."

She continued: "Hernando spent his entire stud career at Lanwades, siring Epsom Oaks winner Look Here and French Derby winner Holding Court, as well as champion and six-time Group 1 winner Sulamani (bred by the Niarchos family).

"I very much look forward to our new joint venture with Study Of Man, a really good-looking horse with exceptional presence, great racing performance and possessing a truly world-class pedigree.

"As a son and grandson of racing legends, he should make an outstanding addition to the worldwide breeding industry, contributing an outcross for many mares."

Study Of Man's 2020 nomination fee will, along with those of fellow Lanwades stallions Bobby's Kitten, Sea The Moon and Sir Percy, be announced in the near future.

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