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RIP VAN WINKLE
Galileo - Looking Back (Stravinsky)
A hugely talented racehorse, Rip Van Winkle is the second highest-rated
horse by Galileo behind only the great Frankel. At stud he got off to the
best possible start with his first two-year-old runners. First came a 1-2 in
the Group 3 Grangecon Stud Stakes at the Curragh in June of 2014
followed by Group 1 and Group 2 successes for Dick Whittington in the
six-furlong Phoenix Stakes and the Railway Stakes. And during the 2015
season he’s had five new Group/Stakes performers.
He sires exceptionally good-looking and good-moving stock so it was no
surprise to see his first yearlings sell for up to 400,000 Guineas (to David
Redvers) and his second crop realise up to
€
350,000 (to Juddmonte
Farms) while at Tattersalls last December a colt foal sold to MV Magnier
for 320,000 Guineas.
already a proven
Group 1
sire
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SO YOU THINK
High Chaparral - Triassic (Tights)
JEAN CLAUDE-ROUGET
purchased three of his
yearlings at Arqana for
€120,000
€110,000
€100,000
STROUD/COLEMAN BLOODSTOCK
purchasers
of a
€140,000
colt at Tatts Book 1
10 Group 1’s - five in Australia and five in
europe - and ran RPR’s from 124-129 a
total of 17 times. That’s quite amazing.
BILL OPPENHEIM, TDN, 18/2/15
10
Group 1’s including the
Eclipse
(fromWorkforce)
and the
Irish Champion Stakes
(from Snow Fairy)
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