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Robin Of Navan ran 36 times, 30 times in stakes races. He won six races (including a Group 1 and four Group races) and was second or third 12 times
is the second dam of Dhaba, Germany’s champion two-year-old filly of 2015 and a daughter of Areion, who won the Group 3 Preis der Winterkoenigin.
Destino’s second dam Diana’s Quest is a winning daughter of Rainbow Quest and is also the dam of French Listed winner Dragon Fly (Acatenango) and Duke d’Alba, a son of Monsun who was also a Listed winner.
She is out of the Northern Dancer mare Diana Dance and is a half-sister to the Listed performer Dorlando by Kris.
Soldier Hollow, a son of In The Wings, is Germany’s most popular and expensive stallion standing at €25,000 in 2020.
Resident at Gestüt Auenquelle, the 20-year-old multiple Group 1 winner and globe-trotter is the sire of seven individual Group 1 winners, including Destino’s Deutsches Derby conqueror Weltstar and the multiple Group 1 winners Ivanhowe and Pastorius, out of a Monsun mare.
Ivanhowe has Sternkoenig as his dam-sire, as does Weltstar, so mares by Monsun and Sternkoenig and their sons or grandsons should be tried with Destino.
Given his own family’s success with Areion the elder statesman of German bloodstock should also be considered.
Robin Of Navan
American Post – Cloghran (Muhtathir)
Haras de la Barbottière
€3,000
The consistent Robin Of Navan was a wonderful flag-bearer for trainer Harry Dunlop and his team, competing at the
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highest level for five seasons.
The son of Group 1 Poule d’Essai des
Pouliches, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère and Racing Post Trophy winner American Post is his sire’s best offspring to date as a winner of the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.
During his juvenile season he broke his maiden over 7f and won the Group 3 Prix de Conde and the Listed Criterium du Fonds over a mile.
At three he was second in the Group 1 Premio Roma and the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe and won the Group 3 La Coupe at four.
He was also second in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan by a neck and fourth to Ribchester in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin.
Robin Of Navan put in some good performances in defeat as a five-year-old and returned at the age of six in 2019 to win the Group 2 Meilen Trophy and finish third in the Group 2 Premio Vittorio di Capua.
In total, he ran 36 times over five seasons, winning six races (five stakes) and finished second or third 12 times, 10 times in stakes races, ranging in distance from 7f to 1m4f
Robin Of Navan is the first foal out of the Muhtathir mare Cloghran, who has gone on to produce the Group 3 Prix la Force-placed My Pleasure (Lethal Force) and the dual- winning miler Tillet (Rock Of Gibraltar).
Cloghran is out of The Wise Lady, who was placed in the three Group 3 races (twice at two) and is the dam of Group 1 Singapore Cup third and Group 3 Premio Sergio Cumani winner Ming Zhi Cosmos (Duke Of Marmalade) and Melodyman (Green Tune), successful in the Listed Prix Fontainebleu.
The Wise Lady is a half-sister to Liliside,
a Listed winner by American Post disqualified after winning the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. She is dam of 2019 Japanese star Lys Gracieux. The daughter of Heart’s Cry won the Group 1 Cox Plate, the Takarazuka Kinen and the Arima Kinen to add to her success in the 2018 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Commerative Cup.
Another half-sister to The Wise Lady is Golden Lily (Dolphin Street), the dam of the 2018 Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Lily’s Candle (Style Vendome).
Third dam Miller’s Lily is a daughter of Miller’s Mate – she won twice and is also the dam of the Listed winner Lily America, again by American Post.
American Post is descended from Madrilene, the ancestress of High Top and Old Vic amongst others, and is from a good Juddmonte family. He is also the sire of multiple US Grade 2 winner Itsinthepost, the Group 3 winner Gaining and the Scandinavian Group 3 winner and Listed James Seymour Stakes second Quarterback.
He is a son of Bering whose dam-sire is Lyphard and Robin Of Navan’s dam Cloghran is inbred to Lyphard – the son of Northern Dancer appears three times in the first five generations of his pedigree.
Robin Of Navan is also inbred to Mill Reef, through his sons Shirley Heights and Miller’s Mate, but despite the proliferation of Northern Dancer blood (he also appears twice himself) there is a complete absence of Danzig in Robin Of Navan’s pedigree.
Interestingly, apart from Robin Of Navan, and Quarterback, American Post’s
best progeny are grand-daughters of Danehill.