CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) - 2011 bay horse
The Green Desert branch of the Danzig (by Northern Dancer) sire line has become one of the strongest in Europe and in Charm Spirit it has a Timeform 127-rated triple Group 1 mile star who comes from a famous sire-producing family. He covered 138 mares in his first season at Tweenhills Farm & Stud, he stood the 2016 season at Haras de Bonneval in France, and he is an exciting prospect.
Charm Spirit was a Group 1-placed winner from three starts as a juvenile and his only defeat from six starts at three was his fifth-place finish in a vintage edition of the Group 1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Remarkably, he was not his sire's best son that year as that honour went to the four-times Group 1 star Kingman, and that Timeform 134-rated champion also has his first foals now. Invincible Spirit (by Green Desert) won the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock and he was not a particularly highly-rated horse for a winner at that level, assessed by Timeform at just 121. As a stallion, however, he has been outstanding and in addition to his long and growing list of top-level winners, he is also excelling with his early stallion sons and broodmare daughters. I Am Invincible, whose Group 1-winning son Brazen Beau will have his first foals in 2017, added to his tally with Saturday's Group 1 Myer Classic scorer I Am A Star, over a mile at Flemington, and Ballylinch Stud's classic star Lawman was represented by another classic winner when his son Harbour Law won the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster last month. Vale Of York has sired stakes winners, Zebedee is the sire of the high-class sprinter Magical Memory, and Cheveley Park Stud's Group 1-winning sprinter Mayson is one of the leading freshman sires of 2016 with three individual stakes winners among seven blacktype-earning progeny. All of this augurs well for Charm Spirit, Kingman and the other Invincible Spirit colts going to stud now and in the future.
Charm Spirit is the first foal out of the dual French winner L'Enjoleuse (by Montjeu) and that half-sister to Group 3-placed filly Megac Bliss (by Soviet Star) is out of Machaera (by Machiavellian), an unraced half-sister to four stakes winners. One of those was the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Russian Bond (by Danzig) and another was his Group 2 Temple Stakes-winning full-brother Snaadee, who achieved some success at stud without making an impact.
Their half-sister Sombreffe (by Polish Precedent) did her bit for the family by coming up with the classic-placed German Group 1 scorer Ransom O'War (by Red Ransom), but it is in the fourth generation of the family that you start to find the biggest names in this clan's roll of honour. The fourth dam of Charm Spirit is the prolific Ciboulette (by Chop Chop) and this means that Somfas (by What A Pleasure), his third dam, was a half-sister to the champion filly and hugely influential broodmare Fanfreluche (by Northern Dancer) and to that star’s full-brother Night Shift, a leading sire whose Group 1 tally included classic winners. Those who descend from Fanfreluche are distantly related to Charm Spirit, but when you have top stallions such as Flying Spur (by Danehill), Encosta De Lago (by Fairy King) and Holy Roman Emperor (by Danehill) among them, along with others who have had varying levels of success as sires, then that offers hope that their younger relation can also do well in his new role. Depending on the mares, the best of his offspring are likely to effective in the six to 10-furlong range. CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) – b.2011 – Invincible Spirit – L'Enjoleuse, 6 wins inc Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (Gr1), Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Gr1), Prix Jean Prat (Gr1), Prix Paul de Moussac (Gr3), Prix Djebel (Gr3), 3rd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere – Grand Criterium (Gr1). Sire in England & France. First foals in 2016.
FOALS CATALOGUED (updated)
bf – Air Biscuit (by Galileo) Tattersalls Nov 30,000gns bc – Aqraan (by In The Wings) Goffs Nov €30,000 bc – B Berry Brandy (by Event of The Year) Tattersalls Nov 45,000gns bf – Bijou A Moi (by Rainbow Quest) Tattersalls Nov 85,000gns bf – Bryanstown (by Galileo) Tattersalls Nov 21,000gns bc – Buredyma (by Dutch Art) Tattersalls Nov 38,000gns bc – Child Bride (by Coronado's Quest) Tattersalls Nov 75,000gns bf – Czama Roza (by Polish Precedent) Tattersalls Nov 65,000gns grc – Dabista (by Highest Honor) Goffs Nov €100,000 bc – Dame Lucy (by Refuse To Bend) Goffs Nov €30,000 bf – Eastern Lily (by Eastern Echo) Tattersalls Nov (p/s) 35,000gns bf – Elusive Pearl (by Medaglia d'Oro) Tattersalls Nov 15,000gns bf – Fairy Efisio (by Efisio) Tattersalls Nov 48,000gns bc – Four Eleven (by Arch) Goffs Nov not sold bf – Garanciere (by Anabaa) Tattersalls Nov 40,000gns bc – Harryana (by Efisio) Tattersalls Nov 90,000gns bc – Hokkaido (by Street Cry) Tattersalls Nov not sold bf – Indignant (by Gold Away) Tattersalls Nov 30,000gns bc – Kite Mark (by Mark of Esteem) Tattersalls Nov 43,000gns bc – Ma Bella Paola (by Naaqoos) Tattersalls Nov not sold bc – Marika (by Marju) Tattersalls Nov 80,000gns bc – Miss Meltemi (by Miswaki Tern) Tattersalls Nov 82,000gns bf – Navajo Rainbow (by Rainbow Quest) Tattersalls Nov not sold bc – Nickels And Dimes (by Teofilo) Goffs Nov €68,000 bc – Pearlofthequarter (by Rock of Gibraltar) Tattersalls Nov not sold bc – Postale (by Zamindar) Tattersalls Nov 140,000gns bc – Sassy Gal (by King's Best) Tattersalls Nov 37,000gns bc - Save Me The Waltz (by Halling) Arqana Dec €48,000 bc – Shuttle Mission (by Sadler's Wells) Tattersalls Nov 33,000gns bf – Silent Act (by Theatrical) Tattersalls Nov withdrawn bc – Tawaasul (by Haafhd) Tattersalls Nov 37,000gns bc – Thankful (by Diesis) Tattersalls Nov 110,000gns bc – Vintage Gardenia (by Selkirk) Tattersalls Nov 15,000gns bf – Water Fountain (by Mark of Esteem) Tattersalls Nov withdrawn Comments are closed.
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