Haras du Saz has brought its roster back to three with the famous and stable recruitment of Mark Johnston Sir Ron Priestley .
The 5-year-old will stand at the Simon family camp near Nantes with Madhmoon and Elm tree park and will be introduced with an opening fee of €2,500.
“We really want a son Australia , who had a really good year for me, I think there are 24 different blacks and two group 1 winners, also outside of one. Dancer Danehill mare you’re going back to Galileo – Danehill intersection, it’s interesting,” said Valerie Simon of the instructor.
“He comes from a family of good jumping stallions, Sholokhov, Soldier of Fortune, so that’s also a good point.”
Sir Ron Priestley, who was bred by Susan Hearn’s Mascalls Stud, was purchased by Johnston for 70,000 guineas ($96,587) at Tattersalls Book 2 and later owned by Paul Dean.
He won the Ladbrokes March Stakes (G3) at Goodwood in 2019 en route to a second-place finish behind the Logician at William Hill St. Leger (G1) and, after a season out, won the Betfair Exchange Jockey Club (G2) and Princess of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes (G2) in 2021.
Sir Ron Priestley retired with a 8-2-2 record from the 15th starting and earning $692,251.
Simon continued: “His dam (Reckoning) was a great stallion who was a good racehorse, and he was a very nice horse with strong bones.”
Chestnuts are the three part brother of this year’s Gold Cup (G1) winners Subjectivist and the half-sister of group 2 Alba Rose.
“We obviously love him as a racehorse, he wasn’t a group 1 winner but he had a very good rating and ran with a lot of group 1 horses,” said Simon. i love his temperament, he seems to be a very easygoing horse, and he always gives his best on the racecourse, which we think is very important to their stallions I.”
It’s early days for Madhmoon, Investec Derby (G1) group 2 winner and runner-up finished his first season, while previous Racing Post Trophy (G1) winner Elm Park had first runner-up.
Simon continued: “We had three last season; we had one we bred ourselves, Desinvolte, which switched to another stallion because sometimes it’s fun to move them around. We weren’t planning on buying another horse but we were offered the chance to get him and we thought we shouldn’t miss it.
“Elm Park covered 80 or 90 last season and we have a lot of mares coming in just to service the stallions, not just us. There are a lot of local breeders but we get them. mares from as far away as Germany and Belgium.”
