Cartier Champion, and five time Gr1 winner, Duke Of Marmalade is well established as a prolific source of high-class fillies and mares.
The son of Danehill’s current tally of 46 stakes winners includes five Gr1 winning fillies, including reigning Equus Champion Rain In Holland, French Oaks winner Star Of Seville, and champion, and English classic winner, Simple Verse.
Duke Of Marmalade is showing promise as a broodmare sire (Pic- Chase Liebenberg)
Not surprisingly, Duke Of Marmalade is now also showing considerable promising as a broodmare sire.
Currently in the top 20 on the Leading Broodmare Sires in Ireland for 2021 (he ranks above the likes of such proven sires and broodmare sires Rahy, Indian Ridge, Fastnet Rock, and Montjeu), Duke Of Marmalade features as the damsire of two top-class three-year-olds this year.
Talented colt Lone Eagle, who is out of Duke Of Marmalade’s stakes winning daughter Modernstone, won four of eight starts before injury.
He captured the 2020 Gr3 Godolphin Flying Start Zetland Stakes and this year’s Listed British Stallion Studs EBF Cocked Hat Stakes and also ran second, to brilliant subsequent Gr1 Grand Prix de Paris/Gr1 St Leger winner Hurricane Lane, in the Gr1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby.
Duke Of Marmalade’s stakes winning daughter Alive Alive Oh ranks as the dam as the very talented filly Free Wind.
The latter has won four of six starts (she has lost just once thus far in 2021) including the Gr2 Hippo Pro3 Park Hill Fillies’ Stakes and Gr3 Prix Minerve.
Lone Eagle & Hurricane Lane battle it out for the Irish Derby win (Pic- Godolphin)
Both Lone Eagle and Free Wind were sired by Galileo – who also ranks as the sire of Duke Of Marmalade’s Gr1 Investec Derby winning half-brother Ruler Of The World and of Duke Of Marmalade’s very smart half-brothers Norway and Giovanni Canaletto. Galileo also ranks as the broodmare sire of Duke Of Marmalade’s high-class daughters Seville Orange (Gr3 Track And Ball Oaks) and Venus De Milo (Gr3 Munster Oaks).
Other notable performers produced by daughters of Duke Of Marmalade thus far include Keep On Fly (Gr2 Derby Italiano), Chilean (Gr3 Prix La Force) and Lady Wannabe (Gr3 Darley Stakes). Italian classic winner Keep On Fly, who is out of Duke Of Marmalade’s Gr3 winning daughter So Many Shots, was sired by a triple Gr1 winning son of Galileo.
Duke Of Marmalade’s Gr1 Investec Derby winning half-brother Ruler Of The World has also been in the news of late -with his daughter La Petite Coco capturing both the G2 Moyglare “Jewels” Blandford Stakes and G3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Give Thanks Stakes in 2021.
Given that Duke Of Marmalade’s sire Danehill is the broodmare sire of an astonishing 400 plus stakes winners, and his maternal grandsire Kingmambo is damsire of more than 150 black type winners, it is not surprising that Duke Of Marmalade promises to take high ranking as a broodmare sire in the years ahead.
