Three-time Group 1 winner Dylan Mouth to stand at Worsall Grange

Three-time Group 1 winner Dylan Mouth will join the ever-growing roster at Worsall Grange Stud in North Yorkshire for the 2019 breeding season, with a fee to be announced at a later date.

The seven-year-old son of Dylan Thomas was initially trained in Italy by Stefano Botti for owner Scuderia Effevi, and won the 2014 Derby Italiano as well as three Group 1 races from ten to 12 furlongs. He also won a maiden over an extended mile in October of his two-year-old season.

“He’s a good, sound, correct horse with plenty of scope,” said Lucy Horner, stud manager at Worsall Grange. “He’ll be aimed at the National Hunt market and is an outcross for any Sadler’s Wells-line mares. He’s a Group 1 winner over a mile and half and was able to stay up to a mile and six.”

Dylan Mouth was switched to the yard of Botti’s brother Marco in Newmarket in April 2016, winning the Group 2 Premio di Milano on his first start for his new trainer. He also won the prestigious Old Newton Cup at Haydock last year and the Group 3 Silver Cup at York this season.

The Silver Cup form was franked with runner-up Dal Harraild finishing fourth to Stradivarius on his next start in the Group 1 Goodwood Cup.

That most recent Group 3 success also makes Dylan Mouth an eligible stallion for the TBA Elite Mares Scheme.

Dylan Mouth’s pedigree received a significant boost this year when his younger half-brother Henry Mouth, by Henrythenavigator, was second to Summer Festival in the Derby Italiano, while their five-year-old half-brother Per Un Dixir won a Listed race at Capannelle last year.

Stefano Botti also handled the career of that trio’s Group 3-winning dam Cottonmouth, a daughter of Noverre whose half-brother Jumbo Rio won the Grade 1 Champion Four-Year-Old Hurdle at Punchestown.

Breeders hoping to get a look at Worsall Grange’s newest recruit will get the opportunity at next year’s stallion shows at Goffs UK in Doncaster and Tattersalls in Newmarket.

Worsall Grange also welcomed Peace Envoy to its roster this year, with the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes scorer covering more than 80 mares in his first season. The stud’s first-crop sire Cannock Chase also had his first foals this year, and among the five destined for the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale is a Worsall Grange-consigned son of Super Faida, a Grade 1 hurdle winner on the continent.

“Anyone that has a foal by him loves them,” says Horner.

The Worsall Grange roster is completed by Millenary.

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