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Marmelo (Duke Of Marmalade) enjoying a roll ahead of his fine second in the 2018 Melbourne Cup
Logician, winner of the St Leger.
His Group 1 winners in 2019 also included
the Falmouth Stakes (G1) winner Veracious and Quadrilateral, successful in the Fillies’ Mile (G1).
Two of Frankel’s Group 1 winners – Cracksman and Veracious – are out of mares by Pivotal, while his St James’s Palace Stakes winner Without Parole has Lemon Drop Kid as his broodmare sire. Eminent, placed in four Group 1 races and the winner of a Group 2 and 3, is out of a Kingmambo mare.
Frankel has done very well with mares by Mr. Prospector-line sires with seven of his progeny rated 110 or higher out of mares by the great stallion or his sons and grandsons.
With Mr. Prospector in the third generation of First Eleven’s pedigree, there are options for breeding mares from this line to him.
Interestingly Anapurna, who also won
the Group 1 Prix Royallieu in 2019, is out of
a Montjeu mare making her inbred 3x3 to Sadler’s Wells. Mares by Montjeu and other Sadler’s Wells sons such as High Chaparral, El Prado and his grandsons also an option for First Eleven.
Marmelo
Duke of Marmalade – Capriolla (In The Wings)
Haras du Grand Courgeon
€3,500
Consistent, sound and durable, Marmelo offers plenty of potential as a dual-purpose stallion as he commences his career.
Beaten just a length in the Melbourne Cup, giving the winner Cross Counter 9lb, Marmelo was a classy and dependable stayer for trainer Hughie Morrison.
Bred by Deepwood Farm Stud, the son of Duke Of Marmalade began his racing career at three breaking his maiden on just his third start. He immediately stepped up to Pattern company for the 1m7f Listed Prix Michel Houyvet when he finished second.
Remaining at that trip for his next start, in the Group 2 Prix Chaudenay, he finished third and ended his first racing season with second place in the Listed Prix Vulcain.
He won the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville on his seasonal debut at four giving weight and a beating to subsequent Group 1 winner Bateel.
Marmelo was second to Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Talismanic in the Group 2 Prix Maurice Nieuil then beat Desert Skyline in the Group 2 Prix Kergolay. His first trip to Australia saw him attempt both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups for the first time.
At five he won his second Prix Maurice
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First Eleven
Frankel – Zenda (Zamindar)
Yeguada Torreduero
€3,500
First Eleven is one of the most exciting stallions to start his stallion career in Europe this year and possibly the best-bred stallion to begin his career in Spain.
The five-year-old is a Juddmonte home- bred through and through as a son of Prince Khalid Abdullah’s undefeated champion Frankel, the sire of ten individual Group 1 winners from his first four crops of runners.
He also hails from one of Juddmonte’s most prolific stallion-producing families as a half-brother to the four-time Group 1 winner Kingman, whose victories included the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the St James’s Palace Stakes and the Prix Jacques le Marois.
Rated 134 by Timeform, the son of Invincible Spirit has made a scintillating start to his stallion career siring Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Persian King and Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Calyx in his first crop.
His second includes Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Boomer and the Listed winners Alligator Alley, Alocasia and Summer Romance.
First Eleven and Kingman are out of the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner and Coronation Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup second Zenda, a Zamindar half-sister to the champion two-year-old and
champion sprinter and leading sire Oasis Dream.
First Eleven’s second dam Hope is a Dancing Brave full-sister to Group 1 Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, who is the dam of Group and Grade 1 winner and sire Beat Hollow.
She is also a half-sister to Trellis Bay (Sadler’s Wells), a Listed-placed winner and the dam of Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar). She was a Listed winner and is the dam of Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner
New Bay, a son of Dubawi whose first crop hits the track in 2020.
Another half-sister to Hope is Coraline, who is by Sadler’s Wells and is the dam of Group 1 Prix du Cadran winner and sire Reefscape, the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier winner and Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup third Coastal Path and the leading French NH sire Martaline (Linamix).
First Eleven, unsurprisingly given their respective sire-lines, stayed much further than Kingman and won over 1m3f and twice at a furlong further.
Trained by John Gosden, he was second over a mile as a juvenile, third in the
Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes and was just a neck behind Baghdad in the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot as a three- year-old.
Frankel’s stellar career exploded into life in 2019 when he sired two British Classic winners – the Oaks heroine Anapurna and