A winner at York last Friday, the courageous Gr2 Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup Stakes star Stradivarius has a very attractive pedigree.
Not only is the 16 time group winner (he has won 18 times in total) a son of a world-class racehorse and stallion, but Stradivarius hails from a female line which continues to go from strength to strength.
Stradivarius wins the Hamilton Lonsdale Cup last Friday (Pic – British Champion Series)
Stradivarius, whose once beaten sire Sea The Stars has more than 80 stakes winners to his credit including successful young sire Sea The Moon,Epsom classic winners Harzand and Taghrooda, and the very exciting two-year-old Reach For The Moon, is out of the stakes placed Private Life (Bering), whose progeny also include Gr3 winner Persian Storm (Monsun), as well as the useful South African racemare Magical Eve (Oratorio), a winner over 1600m who ran third in the Listed The Scarlet Lady of 2012.
Bering also features as the broodmare sire of nearly 70 additional black type winners headed by brilliant King George winner Harbinger (Dansili) -sire of five Gr1 winners, including Nassau Stakes heroine Deirdre and Hong Kong Cup winner Normcore.
Champion Stayer and Melbourbe Cup winner – Protectionist
Stradivarius’ granddam Poughkeepsie (Sadler’s Wells) also ranks as the third dam of Gr1 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist (Monsun) – Australia’s Champion Stayer of 2014-2015.
Protectionist, who is closely inbred to his fifth dam Plencia,has made a promising start to his stud career, with his first crop headed by the group winners Amazing Grace and Lambo.
Protectionist is out of Patineuse -whose Arc winning sire Peintre Celebre (Nureyev) sported Plencia (Stradivarius’ own fourth dam) as his fourth dam.
Peintre Celebre, whose daughter Aquatint produced South African Gr1 winners Afrikaburn and champion Kasimir, left behind more than 60 stakes winners, including the likes of Pride, Castledale, Vallee Enchantee and Byword, as well as South African Gr1 winner and sire Jam Alley, has become a consistently successful broodmare sire with his daughters having produced 70 black type winners including Oaks winner and the triple Melbourne Cup runner-up, Red Cadeaux.
Equus champion Kasimir (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Stradivarius’ fourth dam Plencia, the dam of Oaks/King George winner Pawneese (Carvin), also ranks as the ancetress of Gr1 winners such as Persian King (Kingman), and Planteur (Danehill Dancer).
Ironically, Planteur is the sire of Trueshan -this year’s Gr1 Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup winner, who vanquished Stradivarius when the pair met in last year’s Gr2 Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup.
Equus Champion Jet Dark (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
This female line has also done well in South Africa. Plencia ranks as the fourth dam of Pleine Nuit (Machiavellian), the dam of local stakes winners Brown Penny and Night Trip.
Pleine Nuit is also the granddam of Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate/G1 HKJC World Pool Champions Cup hero Jet Dark (Trippi) – last season’s Equus Champion 3YO Colt and Champion Miler.
