October 28th, 2008
Happy Hippy has got her sire Shamardal off
the mark in the best possible way. Lining up at Taree, Happy Hippy is
out of the Soviet Lad mare Springburn, who is a half-sister to Group 1 Salinger
Stakes winner Notoire. She cost
$32,000 as a yearling when purchased from the Inglis Winter Mixed Sale, and made
her victorious debut over a 1000m on Monday. Happy Hippy races
for Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm and is trained by Jason Coyle.
Shamardal's yearlings
have sold very well in both hemisphere and he returns to Darley Australia
this spring where his fee is listed at $44,000 (inc gst).
September 21st, 2008
Shamardal, whose first yearlings are selling this autumn, topped the SGA sale in Milan courtesy of a colt out of Rentless (Zafonic), who was knocked down for €280,000 (A$487,000) – the second highest price ever realised at the Italian sale.
Prior to the SGA sale, 15 yearlings by Shamardal had been offered in Europe and America, with 11 selling for an average of £87,271 (A$192,750) and a top price of £257,352 (A$568,400).
January 23rd, 2007
News from Darley Stud that Shamardal’s first foal
has arrived - and it's a boy!
Out of Mohammed Al-Qatami’s Night Shift mare, Ellway Star, the chestnut colt was born at Kilshannig Stud in County Cork.
Described by the proud stud owner and bloodstock agent Hugo Merry as “an attractive, good-sized foal – we are very happy with him.”
Ellway Star, a dual winner who was also third in the Listed Lansdown Fillies Stakes, is a half-sister to Irish 2000 Guineas runner-up Fa-Eq and another Stakes winner in Corinium. The producer of two winners to date, she also has a two-year-old filly by Red Ransom.
Shamardal was crowned Champion two-year-old in Europe, following his dominating victory in the Group One Darley Dewhurst Stakes. He went on to win three further Group One contests as a three-year-old, winning both the French Guineas and French Derby before running away with the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. During his first season at Kildangan Stud last year, he covered an exceptional book of mares that included more mares that have produced Group winners than Galileo, Selkirk or Indian Ridge; and seven individual G1 winners.
His fee in the northern hemisphere for 2007 is €40,000 October 1st Special live foal.
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