Star miler Charm Spirit has a stallion's pedigree

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, 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.

The Timeform 127-rated miler Charm Spirit has been very popular since retiring to stud (Photo: Sieglinde McGee)

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.

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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