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FRENCH DEPUTY - Simply
One Of The Best
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06/02/2003 |
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Arrowfield
Stud has signed an agreement with Japan’s Shadai Stallion Station,to shuttle
the internationally successful stallion French Deputy to Australia.
French Deputy has “made it” in both the US, where he started his career as a
stallion, and in Japan where he now stands at Shadai Stallion Station after
being purchased in late 2000.
French Deputy was a brilliant racehorse, winning four of his six lifetime
starts.
As a two year old he broke his maiden at Hollywood Park in devastating fashion
running 6 furlongs in a blistering 1:08.84 and winning by five lengths.
At three he won his first two starts by a combined 13¾ lengths in allowance
company> he then trounced the top flight racehorse and now leading sire Mr
Greeley by 4 lengths in the time honoured G2 Jerome Handicap over a mile in
1:33.53, the fastest mile recorded at Belmont Park that year.
He also attained a Beyer Speed figure of 119 – the highest figure awarded to
any three year old in 1995.
With his oldest progeny now just six, French Deputy finished in the top 20
active sires in North America in 2002 and has sired 16 stakes winners including
three G1 winners.
Among these are the Japanese Champion 3YO colt Kurofune and the ill-fated Left
Bank, Eclipse Award winner as Champion Older Male for 2002.
French Deputy’s stud fee in Japan last season of ¥10m (approximately
$150,000) is testament to his worldwide popularity.
Following the recent death of Sunday Silence, French Deputy and this year’s
Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem are the highest priced Shadai stallions in
Japan.
French Deputy is by Deputy Minister, who is also the sire of the
highly successful shuttle stallion Dehere.
He has the hallmark of all good stallions, consistently upgrading his mares with
his average earnings index of 2.18, much higher than his comparable index of
1.76.
“French Deputy is a magnificent looking stallion who gets very good looking
horses that can really run,” said John Messara
“On what he has achieved in the Northern Hemisphere, he will get progeny that
will be very well suited to Australia and importantly will be very well liked by
yearling buyers.”
French Deputy will stand at Arrowfield at a fee of $44,000 (inc GST).
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