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Donjuan Triumphant
Dream Ahead – Mathuna (Tagula)
Haras de la Barbottiére
€4,000
The Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint winner Donjuan Triumphant is one of two newcomers at Haras de la Barbottiére for 2020.
A tough, sound and talented horse who raced at a high level for five seasons, Donjuan Triumphant brings pace to France as a son of a European champion sprinter Dream Ahead, a son of Diktat.
Bred by Pat and Brid Cosgrove at Kilcarn Park Stud from the first crop of the five-time Group 1 winner Dream Ahead, Donjuan Triumphant was a breeze-up colt bought by Middleham Park Racing from Lynn Lodge.
Sent into training with Richard Fahey first and then Andrew Balding following his purchase by King Power Racing, Donjuan Triumphant ran 37 times in five seasons, winning seven races and finishing in the places on 14 further occasions.
At two he won the Group 2 Criterium Maisons-Laffitte and the Listed Rockingham Stakes both over 6f, and never finished
out of the first four in eight starts that
year, including in the Group 1 Criterium International.
As a three-year-old he was second to Quiet Reflection in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes on his seasonal reappearance and filled the same position behind Signs Of Blessing in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.
He changed yards for his four-year-old season to win over 6f and 7f, but returned to his best form at five when successful in the Listed Wentworth Stakes. He was also placed in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup and British Champions’ Sprint.
As a six-year-old, he had six starts culminating in his Group 1 success.
He is the best of four winners from seven runners so far produced by the Tagula mare Mathuna, who was successful over 6f at two in France. She is also the dam of the Listed Ascendant Stakes winner Caledonian Spring (Amadeus Wolf).
Mathuna is a half-sister to the Group 3 Prix Chloe winner Wilside (Verglas), who is the dam of French Listed winner Sarignan. Another half-sister is the dual French Listed winner and Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap second Round Heels, a daughter of Daggers Drawn.
His second dam Sigonella (Priolo) is an unraced half-sister to the Listed Prix du Courcelles winner and Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club third Sestino (Shirley Heights).
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Donjan Triumphant is from a good French family that has been exposed
to speed influences and shows that it responds to that injection of pace in a positive way
Donjan Triumphant is from a good French family that has been exposed to speed influences and shows that it responds to that injection of pace in a positive way.
Broodmare sire Tagula was quick and precocious winning the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 3 July Stakes at two. He added
the Group 3 Supreme Stakes at three, and finished third in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains.
Dream Ahead is the sire of Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois winner Al Wukair, whose second crop is due in 2020, and the Group 1-placed sprinter Dream Of Dreams. With an official rating of 118, Donjuan Triumphant is behind just this pair in the rankings of Dream Ahead’s progeny.
Dream Ahead has a perfect winners
to runners ratio with the offspring of Acclamation mares, while Dream Of Dreams and the Group 2 Vintage Stakes winner Dark Vision are both out of Dansili mares.
With daughters of Machiavellian producing Al Wukair and the 107-rated Dream Today, it suggests that mares by Dansili and other sons by his sire Danehill, along with daughters and grand-daughters of Machiavellian and his sons and grandsons, would suit Donjuan Triumphant.
The Taj Mahal
Galileo – You’resothrilling (Storm Cat)
Haras de la Haie Neuve
€4,000
The Taj Mahal has one of the best pedigrees of any sire retiring to stud in 2020 as a son of the incomparable Galileo and a full-brother to Group 1 winners Gleneagles, Marvellous
and Happily and to the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Coolmore.
His dam You’resothrilling won the Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes and is a full-sister to the legendary Giant’s Causeway, the leading New York-based sire Freud, and the dam of Group 1 winner and sire Decorated Knight.
She is also a half-sister to the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Storm The Stars, while dam Mariah’s Storm (Rahy) won the Grade 2 Lassie Stakes.
The Taj Mahal began his racing career, like his siblings, with Aidan O’Brien. He ran eight times at two winning his maiden over 7f and finishing third in the Killavullen Stakes (G3), as well as placing in three further races.
At three he was placed in Group 1 contest in three continents starting with the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) at Chantilly before finishing second to future Breeders’ Cup winner Oscar Performance in the Secretariat Stakes (G1)
at Arlington. His year ended with a run the Emirates Stakes in Flemington.
He remained in Australia for the rest of his racing career and won two renewals of the Group 2 Zipping Classic over 1m4f. He also showed his versatility and speed with success in the mile Group 3 JRA Cup.
As a stallion he possesses enormous potential as a son of Galileo, who has 17
sons at stud who have sired Group/Grade
1 winners, and as a full-brother to the dual 2,000 Guineas hero Gleneagles, who enjoyed plenty of success with in 2019.
His “uncle” Giant’s Causeway won three sires championships in North America and was leading first-season sire in Europe, while his son Shamardal and grandson Lope De Vega are ruling in Europe.
The Taj Mahal is inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer and 5x5 to Hail To Reason through his sons Bold Reason and Roberto, but is completely free of Danzig blood making him an ideal stallion for the numerous branches of Danzig that proliferate in Europe.
Gleneagles’s three stakes winners in 2019 are all out of mares by various Danzig line sires with Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner Royal Dornoch out of Bridal Dance (Danehill Dancer), Royal Lytham, the winner of the Group 2 July Stakes and third in the
Group 1 Phoenix Stakes is out of an Anabaa mare, while Royal Ascot winner Southern Hills is out of a daughter of Invincible Spirit.
His Group 3-placed daughter Tabera has a dam by Oratorio and the broodmare sires of his other winners include Oasis Dream, Broken Vow, Exceed And Excel, Holy Roman Emperor, Danehill, Dansili, Diktat, Lawman, Rock Of Gibraltar and Fastnet Rock.