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Once again he spent the winter in Dubai, but it was a more successful campaign than previously. He remained unbeaten in his three starts culminating with success in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint defeating a field that including the dual Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Stormy Liberal and Belvoir Bay, who would win that race in 2019.
Blue Point’s record-breaking Royal Ascot were his only two appearances in Europe last year and he was retired after his King’s Stand Stakes and Diamond Jubilee double.
Blue Point was bred to be quick and is a three-parts brother to the Group 2 Railway Stakes winner and Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes second Formosina (Footstepsinthesand).
They are the two best foals so far out of the Royal Applause mare Scarlett Rose, the dam of three winners from five runners.
She is a placed half-sister to Tumbleweed Ridge (Indian Ridge), winner of five
Group 3 contests – the Horris Hill Stakes, the Prix de la Porte Mailliot and three runnings of the Ballycorus Stakes. He
was also placed 26 times including in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2).
She is also a half-sister to Tumbleweed Pearl, a three-time winner by Aragon and the dam of Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes
and Listed Marygate Stakes winner Gilded (Redback). She, in turn, is the dam of Fort Del Oro, by Lope De Vega, another son of Shamardal and rated 103, and she won three Listed sprints.
Second dam Billie Blue (Ballad Rock) was placed at three and is the dam of seven winners. She is out of the Listed winner Blue Nose, who was also placed in the National Stakes at two, and produced four winners.
Fourth dam Hill Slipper was a winner at three and placed in the Park Stakes (G3). She is a half-sister to Lovely Kate, who won the Whitehall Stakes and was second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and to the Group 2 Pretty Polly Stakes second Tell Katty.
Shamardal had a year to savour in 2019 with three unbeaten juvenile colts and five Group 1 winners.
In the juvenile division he sired the thrilling champion two-year-old Pinatubo, who won the Group 1 National and Dewhurst Stakes, Earthlight was the winner of the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, and Victor Ludorum took the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.
His three-year-old daughter Castle Lady won the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Blue Point won his two Group 1 sprints.
It was a memorable year for the stallion sons of Shamardal’s sire Giant’s Causeway as
Advertise was rated 119 and is the
best by Showcasing, and indeed,
was rated higher than his sire
2,000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand sired Group 2 Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat and the runaway Goffs UK Yearling Sales Race winner Mum’s Tipple.
Shamardal’s sire Giant’s Causeway has sired over 40 Group/Graded winners out of mares from the Mr. Prospector line and Shamardal has the Group 1 winner and top-class sire Lope De Vega inbred 3x3 to Shamardal’s broodmare sire Machiavellian.
Shamardal also sired the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes winner Mukhadram, and he is out of Timber Country mare, while the multiple Group 3 winner French Navy is out of a
First Fleet (Woodman) mare. The Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Emotionless has a dam by Unbridled’s Song, as does Lope De Vega’s Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Zabeel Prince.
Shamardal’s 2019 Classic winner Castle Lady is out of an Elusive Quality mare and he is the sire of the Group 3 and Listed- winning full-siblings Ihtimaal and Winter Lightning. They are out of a daughter of Dubai Destination.
It would be supposed that Mr. Prospector line mares would suit Blue Point quite well. Galileo has seven Group 1 winners out of
Storm Cat mares and four of them are out
of full-sisters to Giant’s Causeway, while another, Ballydoyle, has Mr. Prospector as the sire of her second dam so it would appear logical that mares by Galileo and his sons would visit Blue Point.
Emphasising that point is Shamardal’s Group 1-winning juvenile Earthlight, who was the first Group 1 winner as a broodmare sire for New Approach.
Advertise
Showcasing – Furbelow (Pivotal)
The National Stud
£25,000
The best son so far of Showcasing retires to
the National Stud as the winner of Group 1 races at two and three. He is the best sprinter to retire to stud in Britain in 15 years.
Advertise announced himself as a colt of promise with an easy success in a 6f Newbury maiden on his debut in May of 2018. That he got to within a length of Calyx in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes on his second start showed that his potential was likely to be fulfilled.
And indeed 0n his very next run in the Group 2 July Stakes at Newmarket he ran out the comfortable winner.
He took on the Ballydoyle battalions in their own backyard in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and became the first British-trained winner of the race in 21 years when fending off the challenge of So Perfect.
Questions over his stamina surrounded him prior to the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and a fine second place to the season’s champion two-year-old colt didn’t answer them so he was pointed to Newmarket and the 2,000 Guineas.
There the questions of his ability to stay a mile were well and truly answered in the negative so connections returned him to a sprinting campaign.
The 6f of Royal Ascot’s Commonwealth Cup (G1) proved to be perfect and he was a decisive winner from Forever In Dreams, Hello Youmzain and Ten Sovereigns.
The last-named got the better of Advertise in the Group 1 July Cup when he finished second, though ahead of the Group 1 winners Fairyland, Pretty Pollyana, Brando, Dream Of Dreams and Limato.
The son of Showcasing demonstrated a battling attitude in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest when he had to withstand the challenge of the hardened campaigner Brando inside the final furlong of the six and a half furlong race.
One Master, Pretty Pollyana, Le Brivido and Invincible Army were amongst the vanquished at Deauville.
Advertise had one final start in the Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint but failed to show his true self on heavy ground at Ascot. He retired the winner of five of his ten starts with three further second place finishes.
Bred by Cheveley Park Stud, he is one
of two winners out of Furbelow, a Pivotal full-sister to the American Listed winner Red Diadem and winner of a 6f maiden at three.
She is also a three-parts sister to Adorn (Kyllachy), a winner at two, and the dam of Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner Saayerr (Acclamation) and the Group 2 King George third Ornate, a son of Bahamian Bounty.
Advertise’s second dam Red Tiara was
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