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Calyx
Kingman – Helleborine (Observatory)
Coolmore
€22,500
Calyx was a high-class juvenile full of potential, is a son of one of the most exciting young sires around in Kingman, and is from a Juddmonte family with Group 1 horses under the first four dams.
Trained by John Gosden for owner- breeder Juddmonte Farm, Calyx made an immediate impression on his debut winning a 6f novice race on Newmarket’s July course by 5l.
Just ten days later he announced himself as a potential superstar with an easy success in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes. A length behind him in second was Advertise who would go on to win three Group 1 races at two and three.
They were the only two starts Calyx made as a juvenile with injury curtailing his racing ambitions.
He allayed any fears that he was a one- season wonder with another procession to success in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes on his three-year-old debut.
Unfortunately, he suffered a pastern injury when meeting with his only defeat when second to subsequent Group 1 winner Hello Youmzain in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes and that would be the last time Calyx raced.
He received a Timeform rating 120p for his Coventry Stakes success and an official rating of 115 making him the third-best colt in Europe over 5f or 6f, despite not competing in a Group 1 contest.
He is from an excellent Juddmonte
family and is the first winner out of his dam Helleborine, a classy juvenile who won the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale and the Listed Prix Six Perfections, and finished second in the
Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.
By top-class miler Observatory, she is a full-sister to the Group 1 Sprint Cup heroine African Rose, who was also finished second in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.
African Rose is the dam of Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner and the Group 2 Lowther and Rockfel Stakes-placed Fair Eva (Frankel).
Second dam is the Listed-placed New Orchid, a daughter of Quest For Fame and
a half-sister to the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and National Stakes (G1) winner and sire Distant Music. Their half-sister Allegro Viva is the dam of Group 2 Prix Chaudenay winner Canticum (Beat Hollow).
Northern Dancer appears three times in the fifth generation of Calyx’s pedigree but he has no
Sadler’s Wells or Danehill blood
Third dam Musicanti was also placed at Listed level and is a Nijinsky half-sister to the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, Washington DC International Stakes and Suburban Handicap winner and sire Vanlandingham.
She is also a half-sister to the Listed winner and Grade 1 San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap second Jenkins Ferry and to the stakes winner Popular Tune,
who is the dam of Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby winner Top Hit and stakes winner Crafty Star.
Musicanti’s Northern Dancer three-parts sister Kamkova is the dam of Keeneland Turf Mile and Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner and sire Kirkwall (Selkirk), and is the second dam of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Termagant, a daughter of Powerscourt.
Kingman (Invincible Spirit) has started life as a stallion in spectacular fashion producing a Classic winner from his first crop and siring 17 stakes winners in his first two crops. In some ways he is almost replicating the feats of his paternal half-brother I Am Invincible,
a champion first-season sire in Australia, champion two-year-old sire and already twice runner-up in the general sires’ list.
A classy two-year-old, Kingman won the Group 3 Solario Stakes and went on to win four Group 1 races over a mile at three – the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Sussex Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois. He was beaten only once in eight races when he was second to Night Of Thunder in the 2,000 Guineas (G1).
His first two crops contain six Group winners and 27 stakes performers headed by the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Persian King.
The crop also included the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam and Prix Guillaume d’Ornano
winner Headman, Sagarius, who was last seen when winning the Group 3 Hampton Court Stakes, and Group 3 Musidora Stakes winner Nausha.
Kingman’s second crop contains
Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner and
Group 2 May Hill Stakes second Boomer and the Listed winners Alligator Alley, Alocasia and Summer Romance, all of whom were placed in Group 3 contests.
His two-year-olds of 2019 also included Group 2 Juvenile Stakes second Sinawann, Jazzique who was third in the Grade 3 Miss Grillo Stakes and Group 3 Prix Six Perfections third Divine Spirit.
Northern Dancer appears three times in the fifth generation of Calyx’s pedigree but he has no Sadler’s Wells or Danehill blood which makes him a lovely cross for all those mares descended from the two behemoths.
Kingman has already sired Nausha and the Listed winner Fox Chairman out of Galileo daughters, Boomer is out of a Singspiel mare and the Group 2-placed Jazzique is out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells.
Sending speedy mares to Galileo has produced numerous champions so sending Galileo mares to a fast and precocious horse such as Calyx should work – indeed Magna Grecia (Invincible Spirit) is out of a Galileo mare. Mares by High Chaparral and Montjeu should also suit Calyx.
Reinforcing Danzig in pedigrees seems
to have worked well for Kingman –Persian King’s dam is a daughter of Dylan Thomas and Danehill Dancer mares have produced two stakes performers for Kingman, so mares by sons and grandsons of Danehill should suit Calyx very well.
Strengthening that even further through inbreeding to Green Desert has already worked very well for Kingman with Cape Cross the broodmare sire of Alligator Alley, Listed winner Raakib Alhawa is out of a Sea The Stars mare and Sinawann is out of a daughter of Anabaa.
Magna Grecia
Invincible Spirit – Cabaret (Galileo)
Coolmore
€22,500
A first British Classic winner for the brilliant Invincible Spirit, Magna Grecia is also the first of his sons to win Group 1 races at two and three.
A 340,000gns foal purchase by MV Magnier from Norelands Stud, Magna Grecia made his debut late in his two-year- old season but quickly made his presence
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