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Flag Of Honour
Galileo -Hawala (Warning)
The National Stud
£4,500
Flag Of Honour is an eye-catching dual- purpose stallion acquisition for The National Stud as a Classic-winning son of Galileo from a family of top-class performers.
Bred by Barronstown Stud out of the Warning mare Hawala, Flag Of Honour was trained by Aidan O’Brien for the Coolmore partners.
He won his maiden over 7f at two and then
went on to win the 1m1f Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes at Leopardstown on his final start that season.
At three, he finished third in the
Group 3 Prix Noailles over the Prix du Jockey Club course and distance.
Stepped up to the Leger trip of a 1m6f
for the Group 2 Curragh Cup he showed admirable qualities to win. He added another success at the distance in the Group 3 Irish St Leger Trial Stakes.
With two victories at the trip under his belt, Flag Of Honour was favourite to add
the main event to his list of honour and he provided breeders David and Diane Nagle with a weekend to remember winning the Irish St Leger 24 hours after Kew Gardens, also bred by the couple, won the St Leger at Doncaster.
Last year Flag Of Honour ran four times, finishing second behind the brilliant Magical in the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes and the Group 3 Alleged Stakes, all races at around 1m2f.
Flag Of Honour comes from an Aga Khan family and is a half-brother to four black-type horses including a trio of Danehill Dancer horses – the Group 3 Minstrel Stakes winner and Group 1 Phoenix Stakes second Air Chief Marshall, the Listed Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy and Free Handicap winner Misu Bond, and Foxtrot Romeo, who was second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas.
He is also a half-brother to the dual Listed winner and Group 3-placed Slip Dance, a daughter of Celtic Swing who is also the second dam of last season’s Grade 1 Beverley D Stakes second Awesometank.
A winner over a mile Hawala is the dam of 12 winners so far and is a Warning half-sister to the Group 3 winner Afaf (Spectrum), the Group 1-placed Listed winner Zack Hall (Mutathir) and the Group 3-placed Zack Dream (Dream Well).
They are out of the Dancing Brave mare Halawa, a winner at three and a half-sister to the Listed Trigo Stakes winner Hasainiya, who is the dam of dual Listed winner Hasanka.
They have a Alzao half-brother called Hanzanar, who was second in the Beresford Stakes.
A son of Galileo, who has 17 sons at stud who have sired at least one Group 1 winner, Flag Of Honour has plenty going for him.
He is inbred 4x5 to Northern Dancer through Galileo and Lyphard, is inbred
5x5 to Hail To Reason through his sons Bold Reason and Roberto, and 5x5 gender balanced inbreeding to Native Dancer through his son Mr. Prospector on his sire’s side and daughter Where You Lead on his dam’s side.
There is no Danzig blood in his pedigree and Northern Dancer would appear in the fifth generation of his foals.
Given Galileo’s affinity with Danzig-line sires, especially Danehill and his son Danehill Dancer, who works well with Flag Of Honour’s dam, mares by Danehill, Danehill Dancer and their sons, as well as the Green Desert sire-line should suit Flag Of Honour.
Flag Of Honour: bought by NH owner Trevor Hemmings, the son of Galileo is at the National Stud
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