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Nieuil and added the Listed Grand Cup Stakes, was second to Vazirabad in the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier and also finished second in the Prix Kergolay before his magnificent Melbourne Cup second.
He returned in 2019 as a six-year-old, beating subsequent Group 1 Aspetar in the Group 3 John Porter Stakes and ending his career with a second Prix Kergolay success.
He is the best of seven winners from eight runners so far out of the In The Wings mare Capriolla, whose other winners include the Group 3 Henry II Stakes winner Vent De Force (Hurricane Run) and the Grade 3 winning hurdler Atalan by Azamour.
Capriolla is a half-sister to the Group 3 Lingfield Derby Trial winner Saddler’s Quest (Saddler’s Hall) and the Listed winners Serenhill (Sabrehill) and Quiz Mistresss, a daughter of Doyen.
Their unraced Dr Devious half-sister Seren Devious is the dam of Group 3 Prix Thomas Byron Circumvent winner by Tobougg.
Second dam Seren Quest is by Rainbow Quest and was a winner at three in England. Marmelo’s sire Duke Of Marmalade now
stands at Drakenstein Stud in South Africa, but his European crops contain the
Group 1 St Leger and British Champions’ Fillies’ and Mares’ Stakes winner Simple Verse, the Group 1 Prix de Diane winner Star Of Seville, the Group 1 Deutsches Derby winner Nutan and the Ascot Gold Cup hero Big Orange.
As a son of Danehill, it is expected that Duke Of Marmalade’s best horses are out of mares by Sadler’s Wells and his sons.
However, Star Of Seville is out of a Selkirk mare, while Group 3 winner Hall Of Mirrors has Indian Ridge as his dam-sire. The
Listed winner and Group-placed Count Of Limonade’s broodmare sire is Darshaan.
Wannabe Better, winner of the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes, is out of a Shirley Heights mare. With Marmelo, this would create inbreeding to Shirley Heights, who is the broodmare sire of Marmelo’s dam-sire In The Wings, while Duchess Of Andorra, another Group 3 winner, has a Cadeaux Genereux dam.
Quaduna is also a Group 3-winning daughter of Duke Of Marmalade and she is out of a mare by Monsun, while Listed winner Morning Frost has Keltos as her broodmare sire – all these sire lines give plenty of options for breeders.
There is also the prospect of inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells, the sire of Marmelo’s broodmare sire In The Wings, with the outstanding Enable inbred 3x2 to the great stallion.
Belgian Bill after success at Royal Ascot
Belgian Bill
Exceed And Excel – Gay Romance (Singspiel)
Haras de la Taillis
€3,000
Longevity was the hallmark of Belgian Bill – he ran 62 times over seven seasons, winning eight races, finishing second nine tines and third in five of them.
His greatest success was in the Listed Anatolia Trophy in Turkey and he was also second in the Group 3 Prix Quincey and placed in three more Listed races.
He is out of the winning Singspiel mare Gay Romance, who is a half-sister to the multiple Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile, Eddie Read Handicap and Turf Classic Stakes-placed Hawksley Hill (Rahy).
Gay Romance is also a half-sister to the dam of Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye winner, Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) second and Hong Kong Sprint third Benbaun (Stravinsky).
Belgian Bill’s second dam Gaijin is by Caerleon and is a winning half-sister to the Group 3 winner Thousla Rock.
His third dam Resooka was unraced, but is a half-sister to Kerali, by High Top, the mare who began a Juddmonte dynasty as the dam of blue hen Hasili and her full-sister Arrive (Kahyasi). The fourth dam Sookera won the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.
Belgian Bill is bred on the same cross as Australian Group 1 winner Helmet – by Exceed And Excel and out of a Singspiel mare.
Helmet’s best progeny so far is the Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow, who is out of a Dubai Destination mare. That would suggest Dubai Destination mares for Belgian Bill, along with mares by his sire Kingmambo and his sons, including Lemon Drop Kid, King’s Best and Rule Of Law.
Buratino, the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes second by Exceed And Excel, is out of a Kingmambo mare.
Destino
Soldier Hollow – Divya (Platini)
Gestüt Westerberg
€3,000
Destino was a classy middle-distance performer in his native Germany and is a full-brother to 2017 German Horse of the Year and Group 1 winner Dschingis Secret, who is commencing his second season at stud in France.
Successful in the Group 3 Fritz-Henkel Stiftung Rennen over 1m4f at Hamburg on his final start, the lightly-raced son of Soldier Hollow ran in the colours of that stallion’s owner and Destino’s owner-breeder Gestüt Park Wiedingen.
Trained by Markus Klug, Destino was a neck second to Welstar in the 2018 Group 1 Deutsches Derby and won over 1m1f at two. He was also second in the Group 2 1m3f Oppenheim-Union-Rennen.
He is a full-brother to four winners, all
of them black-type horses, starting with the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin and Group 2 Prix Foy winner Dschingis Secret, who was also third in the Group 1 Deutsches Derby and Grosser Preis von Bayern.
Sister Diana Storm was placed in the Group 2 T von Zastrow Stutenpreis and the Group 3 Mitglieder des Hamburger Stuten Preis, while young full-brother Dschingis First was placed in two Group 3 contests at three last year.
They are out of the winning Platini mare Divya, who is a full-sister to the Group 3 winner Deva, the dam of multiple Group 3 and Listed winner Devastar (Areion). Deva
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