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From Stallion Families, Jack Christopher and Early Voting New to Ashford Stud
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3/19/2025
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Coolmore's Ashford Stud will add five new stallions to the roster in 2023, and today
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we spoke with Adrian Wallace about Grade 1 winner Jack Christopher, who is the son of
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Ashford's own Munnings, as well as Prinkness hero Early Voting, who is one of the first
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sons of brilliant young sire Gunrunner to go to stud.
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There's no doubt we're blessed to have horses of the caliber of Jack Christopher and Early
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Voting here, both from great sire lines with great families, but both horses were real
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true proper dirt horses, Early Voting obviously a classic type horse, and then Jack Christopher
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more of the sprinter, one turn miler type.
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So it's always very fulfilling when you have a stallion and then you end up standing one
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of his sons.
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We're very excited to be standing a son of Munnings here, it's the first son of Munnings
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we've been able to stand, and Jack Christopher was on our radar very, very early.
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He left nobody in any doubt who the best two-year-old was in Saratoga when he won his maiden by
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eight and a half lengths, becoming a TDN Rising Star in the process, and then went
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on to be ever so brilliant in the Champagne Stakes.
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He was a really fast, precocious two-year-old, but then he managed to carry it on at three,
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and that's winning the Pat Day mile.
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So he was very impressive that day, and then he went on to the Woody Stevens where he left
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nobody in any doubt on one of the biggest days in the middle of the summer, how fast
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he really was.
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The thing about Jack Christopher, he's all about speed.
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You look at him, the way he's built, he's very like his sire in Munnings.
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He's a very balanced horse, good mover, he's probably a better-looking horse than Munnings
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is.
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If he can become as good a sire as Munnings is, we'll be very, very happy.
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But he's from a sire's family, from the family of Street Boss as well, which obviously needs
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no introduction either, but he was all about speed.
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He was quick out of the gates, he could get to the front and dominate his races, he was
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very tactical in the way he raced.
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Chad Brown is quoted as saying he's one of the fastest horses he's ever trained, so I
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think that says it all.
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Being one of the first sons of a gunrunner to stand at stud, I think it's a huge privilege
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to be able to get early voting's career off to a good start.
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Gunrunner is widely perceived as one of the best young stallions in America, having had
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six grade one winners in his first crop.
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Now we're very excited to stand what looks like his best son.
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He's a horse that was a maiden winner at two, but went on more importantly to win the Preak
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Mistakes at three.
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But to do it and to beat a horse like Epicenter that day, I think really cemented him as one
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of the best three year olds of his crop.
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Prior to that in the wood, he finished second to Moe Donegal, who went on to win the third
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leg of the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes.
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So I think his form really was very strong throughout the year.
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I think he had speed, and I think he was able to carry that speed.
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I think he had a great heart, and I think there's no better reflection of that than
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his race in the Preak Mist.
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I think he ran a superb race that day.
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His speed took him to the front, and he kept going.
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I think he's got the size and the balance of Gunrunner, but I think in many ways he
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looks more like his damsel, Artisna.
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He's got the big hip and shoulder, again a very correct horse, easy on the eye, very
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good looking, very masculine head, and comes from a Cyrus family, he's from the family
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of Spidestans.
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So that's really a huge selling point in any horse's careers.
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And a horse like him will be very popular and has been very popular with breeders so
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far.
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