The Next Generation Of Darley Sires

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00:00Darley stands three Group 1 winning stallions all by their own sires with first foals in 2021.

00:10Buyers of the upcoming foal sales will have the chance to see the first progeny of Blue Point, Two Darn Hot, and Massar.

00:19We caught up with members of Team Darley to hear more about these sires' first foals.

00:26Massar broke his maiden in May of his two-year-old season.

00:30This is a very early two-year-old, especially for a horse that went on to win a derby.

00:34He went to the Guineas and he finished a very good third.

00:36From the Guineas he went and won his derby and again beat Saxon Warrior, beat Roaring Lion again.

00:41When I look back through that derby later on, it was a very deep race.

00:45I think there were four or maybe five future Group Stakes winners in there, so a really deep renewal of the race.

00:50So for Massar to win it in the way he did was incredibly impressive.

00:53He covered 146 mares that first year and it was a good book, a strong book.

00:57I think we pitched him at a good fee. He was competitively priced at £15,000.

01:01He was £14,000 in his second year and he covered just under 100 mares.

01:06We've been really happy with Massar's foals.

01:08We've got some really nice ones here on the farms at Dalham.

01:11The team, we spend a lot of time going to see them each week and they really improve.

01:16They're slightly different types.

01:18There are some that you'll think will be quite precocious and early, a bit like him.

01:22And there are some that will need a bit of time.

01:24There will be more yearling prospects for commercial breeders.

01:28His brilliance came at four into King's Stand.

01:31He was an amazing winner to King's Stand.

01:33At that stage, we were desperate to stand him.

01:36Charlie Appleby, thankfully, made the right call and brought him back to Ascot.

01:41He did this amazing feat of two Group Ones.

01:45The only horse ever to win three Group One sprints at Ascot.

01:49He was a hell of a racehorse.

01:52Heavily oversubscribed in his first year, which wasn't a surprise.

01:55He covered 180 mares.

01:57Huge level of fertility.

01:59And covered some very, very nice mares.

02:01People really stepped up and sent him a very nice, high-quality mare.

02:06This wasn't a surprise, but probably surprised how quickly they came for him in his second year.

02:12People will describe a Chamarel head.

02:14They do have a little bit of that.

02:16But what they have is the great shoulder and great hip that Chamarel had.

02:19And a lot of movement.

02:21They're on a real improve for us.

02:25I think come November, you're going to see some great representations of Bluepoint.

02:31He's obviously a really top-class two-year-old.

02:34He's a really impressive winner of the Dewhurst.

02:37One of the best Dewhursts, I think, in the last 20 years.

02:40He's beaten Commonwealth Cup winners, Derby winners.

02:44He's just a phenomenal two-year-old who went on to be a top-class three-year-old.

02:49Very good performance in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood.

02:52To Don Hott's been incredibly well-received for the two seasons we've had him.

02:57He has covered a book of mares from all the top breeders in Europe.

03:02Some really high-class mares.

03:04Right from the get-go, with the first foals, the reports were really positive.

03:08And then, obviously, we've all been out and about.

03:11I can honestly say I've consistently seen some of the nicest foals by any of our stallions ever.

03:17I think they have a lot of debauchery about them in the fact that they can be quite compact.

03:23But they've probably got a little bit more of that Singspiel quality and a bit of To Don Hott's own quality.

03:28When you've got all the top breeders telling you they've got nice foals at home,

03:33a lot of them have come back and they'll be using them again next year.

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