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, was back at his original base in 2017, and he is an exciting prospect whose first foals made up to 140,000gns.
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 yearlings 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.
Australian-based I Am Invincible is the sire of Group 1-winning son Brazen Beau – who has had his first foals in 2017 – and Ballylinch Stud's classic star Lawman has been represented by the classic winners Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Just The Judge and Group 1 St Leger star Harbour Law. 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, one of the leading freshman sires of 2016, already has four individual stakes winners to his name. Born To Sea's first three-year-olds include the classic-placed pattern winner Sea Of Grace, and current freshman Swiss Spirit has already sired several two-year-old winners in his first crop. 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.
YEARLINGS CATALOGUED:
bc - Aqraan (by In The Wings) Tattersalls IRE Sept not sold bc - Arch of Colours (by Monsun) Tattersalls Oct 5,000gns bc - Astromagick (by Rainbow Quest) Tattersalls Nov 2,500gns bc - B Berry Brandy (by Event of The Year) Tattersalls Oct 22,000gns bc - Best Intent (by King's Best) Arqana Oct €110,000 bf - Bijou A Moi (by Rainbow Quest) Goffs UK Aug £105,000 bf - Bryanstown (by Galileo) Tattersalls Oct not sold bc - Buredyma (by Dutch Art) Tattersalls Oct 67,000gns bf - Centime (by Royal Applause) Tattersalls Oct 25,000gns bf - Cheriearch (by Arch) Arqana Oct €100,000 bc - Chicita Banana (by Danehill Dancer) Tattersalls Oct 18,000gns bc - Child Bride (by Coronado's Quest) Goffs Sept not sold bf - Commute (by Rail Link) Arqana Oct €24,000 bf - Coventina (by Daylami) Tattersalls Oct 11,000gns bc - Crystals Sky (by Hernando) Arqana Oct €27,000 bf - Czarna Roza (by Polish Precedent) Tattersalls Oct 100,000gns bc - Dame Lucy (by Refuse To Bend) Tattersalls Oct not sold bf - Deraaya (by Mujahid) Goffs Sept withdrawn bf - Dreamily (by New Approach) Tattersalls Oct 14,000gns bf - Eastern Lily (by Eastern Echo) Tattersalls Oct withdrawn bf - Eastern Lily (by Eastern Echo) Tattersalls Nov 25,000gns (p/s) bf - Elusive Pearl (by Medaglia d'Oro) Goffs Sept €18,000 bf - Enchanted Princess (by Royal Applause) Tattersalls Oct 26,000gns bc - Examinee (by Monsun) Tattersalls Oct 20,000gns bf - Fairy Efisio (by Efisio) Tattersalls Oct not sold bf - Fairy Efisio (by Efisio) Tattersalls Nov withdrawn bc - Fantacise (by Pivotal) Tattersalls Oct 52,000gns bc - Four Eleven (by Arch) Tattersalls Oct not sold bf - Galactic Heroine (by Galileo) Tattersalls Oct 16,000gns bc - Gotlandia (by Anabaa) Arqana Oct €110,000 bc - Harryana (by Efisio) Tattersalls Oct 130,000gns bc - Hello Glory (by Zamindar) Tattersalls Oct 85,000gns bc - Hokkaido (by Street Cry) Tattersalls Oct not sold bf - Indignant (by Gold Away) Tattersalls Oct 42,000gns bc - Kartica (by Rainbow Quest) Arqana Aug €500,000 bc - Kelsey Rose (by Most Welcome) Goffs Sept €70,000 (p/s) bc - Kite Mark (by Mark of Esteem) Tattersalls Oct 115,000gns bf - Lalectra (by King Charlemagne) Tattersalls Oct not sold bc - Ma Bella Paola (by Naaqoos) Tattersalls Oct 42,000gns bf - Macheera (by Machiavellian) Tattersalls Oct withdrawn bf - Maid For Winning (by Gone West) Tattersalls Oct 120,000gns bc - Marika (by Marju) Tattersalls Oct 135,000gns bf - Mill Guineas (by Salse) Goffs Sept €80,000 bc - Miss Meltemi (by Miswaki Tern) Tattersalls Oct 95,000gns bc - Miss Plimsoll (by Arch) Arqana Aug €120,000 bf - Morning Bride (by Danehill Dancer) Arqana Oct €82,000 bf - Morzine (by Miswaki) Goffs UK Aug £22,000 bf - Naissance Royale (by Giant's Causeway) Arqana Aug €130,000 bf - Nandiga (by Bernardini) Tattersalls Nov 18,000gns bf - Nantes (by Night Shift) Arqana Aug €110,000 bc - Nickels And Dimes (by Teofilo) Goffs UK Aug £28,000 bc - No Song (by Zamindar) Tattersalls Oct not sold bf - Olympic Medal (by Nayef) Tattersalls IRE Sept €28,000 bc - Pearlofthequarter (by Rock of Gibraltar) Tattersalls Oct 10,000gns bc - Postale (by Zamindar) Tattersalls Oct withdrawn bc - Postale (by Zamindar) Tattersalls Nov withdrawn bf - Puzzled (by Peintre Celebre) Tattersalls IRE Sept €32,000 bc - Ravensburg (by Raven's Pass) Tattersalls Oct 60,000gns bc - Rose Memory (by Elusive City) Arqana Oct €75,000 bc - Ruse (by Diktat) Tattersalls Oct 26,000gns bc - Sassy Gal (by King's Best) Tattersalls Oct not sold bc - Save Me The Waltz (by Halling) Arqana Oct €46,000 bf - Sea Chorus (by Singspiel) BBAG Sept €70,000 bf - Seracina (by Nashwan) Arqana Oct €30,000 bc - Supergirl (by Woodman) Arqana Aug €100,000 bc - Tawaasul (by Haafhd) Tattersalls Oct 70,000gns bc - Thankful (by Diesis) Tattersalls Oct 210,000gns bc - Trip To The Moon (by Fasliyev) Arqana Aug not sold bf - Urgele (by Zafonic) Goffs Sept €27,000 bc - Vintage Gardenia (by Selkirk) Tattersalls IRE Sept €21,000 bf - Water Fountain (by Mark of Esteem) Goffs Sept €14,000 bf - You Don't Love Me (by Teofilo) Arqana Oct €32,000 bf - Zomorroda (by Chineur) Osarus Sept €45,000 Comments are closed.
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