Blue Gum Farm

Blue Gum Farm is delighted to announce the addition of the magnificently credentialled Strategic Prince to its 2008 Stallion Roster. Strategic Prince was one of Europe’s leading two-year-olds of the 2006 season when he won three of his five starts, including a pair of Group 2 races, before placing third in the time honoured Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at the end of the season.

Strategic Prince (Dansili - Ausherra)

If not for an entry mishap, Strategic Prince may well not have missed a place as a two-year-old! After winning his maiden first up over 1,000 metres at Salisbury, his Epsom Derby winning trainer, Paul Cole, had wanted to target the Coventry Stakes over 1,200 metres at Royal Ascot with the colt. Cole had won previous editions of the Coventry with Dilum, Sri Pekan and Red Sea so he knew what it took to win the race but Weatherbys said an entry was never made for the colt. Cole was then pushed to run Strategic Prince in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes over 1,000 metres which proved just a little too sharp for him second up and he finished fifth. Third up, over the 1,200 metre trip of the Coventry in the Group 2 July Stakes at Newmarket, Strategic Prince confirmed Cole’s judgement to quicken in great style and win by a length and three quarters from Armigerent with the odds on favourite, Hoh Mike, well back. After this win Cole said; “He will definitely head to Goodwood for the Group 2 Vintage Stakes over 1,400 metres now. The jockey thinks he has loads of speed for 1,200 metres but I’m sure he’ll get 1,400. The extra 200 metres here certainly made a big difference. He has legs like steel.”

In the Vintage Stakes Strategic Prince was conceding three pounds to all his rivals but he took the spoils from Aidan O’Brien’s highly rated Danehill colt Duke Of Marmalade (subsequent winner of the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp), prompting Cole to look towards the Dewhurst. “He’s a very mature horse, there’s nothing backward about him and there’s never been anything to say that he’s needed more time,” the master trainer commented. “I’ve always taken the view that if they’re coming along nicely then don’t stop them. We’d have to look on the bright side, things were against him today yet he overcame the extra weight and the slow pace and the second horse is obviously very good.” Strategic Prince ran bravely in the Dewhurst, his final run as a two-year-old, finishing third to Champion Two-Year-Old Teofilo and Holy Roman Emperor.

Strategic Prince has strong claims to being the fastest son of the wonderfully bred Dansili, a son of the revered Danehill and already a Champion sire (2006 in France) with 25 Stakes winners to his credit from just four crops of racing age. These include the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero Rail Link, who is standing alongside his sire at Juddmonte Farms’ Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket. Dansili is the first foal of arguably the best broodmare in the world, Hasili, who has produced four Group 1 winners; Banks Hill (Danehill), Heat Haze (Green Desert), Intercontinental (Danehill) and Cacique (Danehill). Viewed by major European breeders as the heir to Danehill, Dansili has already been represented in Australia by the Mick Kent-trained Trick Of Light (GB), a winner of the Group 2 SAJC Queen Of The South Stakes. A member of Dansili’s third crop, Strategic Prince is out of the Stakes-winning, Group placed Ausherra, a full-sister to the Champion European filly of 1999 Ramruma, and a daughter of the influential broodmare sire Diesis, a full-brother to the Champion galloper and Sire Kris. Strategic Prince, whose dam-line is free of Northern Dancer, will be the only source of Dansili in Australia or New Zealand this season. Referred to by Coolmore Ireland’s Stud Manager Christy Grassick as “A gorgeous-looking individual, I couldn’t believe it when I saw him,” Strategic Prince will stand his first season at Blue Gum Farm for $11,000 inc GST.


		Strategic Prince joins Blue Gum Farm roster
“He’s a very mature horse, there’s nothing backward about him and there’s never been anything to say that he’s needed more time,”		Blue Gum Farm is delighted to announce the addition of the magnificently credentialled Strategic Prince to its 2008 Stallion Roster. Strategic Prince was one of Europe’s leading two-year-olds of the 2006 season when he won three of his five starts, including a pair of Group 2 races, before placing third in the time honoured Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at the end of the season. Strategic Prince (Dansili - Ausherra) If not for an entry mishap, Strategic Prince may well not have missed a place as a two-year-old! After winning his maiden first up over 1,000 metres at Salisbury, his Epsom Derby winning trainer, Paul Cole, had wanted to target the Coventry Stakes over 1,200 metres at Royal Ascot with the colt. Cole had won previous editions of the Coventry with Dilum, Sri Pekan and Red Sea so he knew what it took to win the race but Weatherbys said an entry was never made for the colt. Cole was then pushed to run Strategic Prince in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes over 1,000 metres which proved just a little too sharp for him second up and he finished fifth. Third up, over the 1,200 metre trip of the Coventry in the Group 2 July Stakes at Newmarket, Strategic Prince confirmed Cole’s judgement to quicken in great style and win by a length and three quarters from Armigerent with the odds on favourite, Hoh Mike, well back. After this win Cole said; “He will definitely head to Goodwood for the Group 2 Vintage Stakes over 1,400 metres now. The jockey thinks he has loads of speed for 1,200 metres but I’m sure he’ll get 1,400. The extra 200 metres here certainly made a big difference. He has legs like steel.” In the Vintage Stakes Strategic Prince was conceding three pounds to all his rivals but he took the spoils from Aidan O’Brien’s highly rated Danehill colt Duke Of Marmalade (subsequent winner of the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp), prompting Cole to look towards the Dewhurst. “He’s a very mature horse, there’s nothing backward about him and there’s never been anything to say that he’s needed more time,” the master trainer commented. “I’ve always taken the view that if they’re coming along nicely then don’t stop them. We’d have to look on the bright side, things were against him today yet he overcame the extra weight and the slow pace and the second horse is obviously very good.” Strategic Prince ran bravely in the Dewhurst, his final run as a two-year-old, finishing third to Champion Two-Year-Old Teofilo and Holy Roman Emperor. Strategic Prince has strong claims to being the fastest son of the wonderfully bred Dansili, a son of the revered Danehill and already a Champion sire (2006 in France) with 25 Stakes winners to his credit from just four crops of racing age. These include the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero Rail Link, who is standing alongside his sire at Juddmonte Farms’ Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket. Dansili is the first foal of arguably the best broodmare in the world, Hasili, who has produced four Group 1 winners; Banks Hill (Danehill), Heat Haze (Green Desert), Intercontinental (Danehill) and Cacique (Danehill). Viewed by major European breeders as the heir to Danehill, Dansili has already been represented in Australia by the Mick Kent-trained Trick Of Light (GB), a winner of the Group 2 SAJC Queen Of The South Stakes. A member of Dansili’s third crop, Strategic Prince is out of the Stakes-winning, Group placed Ausherra, a full-sister to the Champion European filly of 1999 Ramruma, and a daughter of the influential broodmare sire Diesis, a full-brother to the Champion galloper and Sire Kris. Strategic Prince, whose dam-line is free of Northern Dancer, will be the only source of Dansili in Australia or New Zealand this season. Referred to by Coolmore Ireland’s Stud Manager Christy Grassick as “A gorgeous-looking individual, I couldn’t believe it when I saw him,” Strategic Prince will stand his first season at Blue Gum Farm for $11,000 inc GST.