Sex | Filly |
---|---|
Location | Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Type | Jumps |
Trainer | Willie Mullins |
15 years ago this week, Sea The Stars won the Derby. He has since sired 21 Group 1 winners, produced 12% stakes winners to runners and gone on to become Ireland’s most expensive stallion at €200,000.
Beside Sea The Stars in Irish racing’s pantheon of greats is Willie Mullins. Willie is Ireland’s winning-most trainer of all time. He has trained 4,378 career wins, 103 wins at the Cheltenham Festival and accomplished everything in his sport except one – he has never trained a runner by Sea The Stars.
Today, you can own the first one. This chance won’t last long…
I didn’t believe it. Ireland’s best trainer had never had a horse by Ireland’s best stallion?
We crunched the numbers. Here is a breakdown of Willie’s runners the last 15 years by stallion. He’s had 454 runs by Presenting progeny, 361 by King’s Theatre – zero by the Sea The Stars.
Now, it would be easy to just go buy a random Sea The Stars but we think we needed something special for Willie’s first.
Our contacts (some might call them spies 🕵️) in the UK alerted us that the Godolphin were selling a beautiful Sea The Stars filly unraced (making her qualified for bumpers) called Eastern Whisper. Trained by Charlie Appleby, she’d shown up very well on the gallops but just needed a bit more time to nurture her development. We bought her for £28,000gns. This wasn’t a big sale that a lot of people missed, so my quote after buying her was front page news (read the sales report here).
She’s a daughter of Jollify, a stakes placed Manduro for Andre Fabre. Her mother thrived over a trip (1 mile 4 furlongs) so she has exactly the profile as a dual purpose prospect. Now I will admit some bias – her second dam is our own “Kelly” family that has produced Red Kelly (of exceeding the speed limit fame), Ted Kelly (who recently won on debut for Louisa Carberry) and Ellen Kelly (who was a highly promising second on debut for us and Willie recently). Basically, it’s a gem of a family that always delivers if given three things – time to develop, distance to show off their stamina and a top class trainer. I think we’ve ticked all those boxes here…
If I had to map out a dream plan for this filly, it would be to give her time to develop this year (so don’t expect fireworks right away, we want to treat her like a proper filly) to become the dream dual purpose filly. This filly has a pedigree that wouldn’t be out of place in Cheltenham or Flemington so we need to treat her that way. We’ll build towards a winter campaign (if she’s ready) and then perhaps kick on for a summer of fun next year too. We’ve never bought a filly that I could imagine running at both Royal Ascot and Punchestown but this might just be the one.
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2025 costs will be €35 per unit, per month (payable quarterly). Please contact Aimee (aimee@syndicates.racing) to claim your discount on larger shareholdings.
Buy now to be part of her journey, she’s perfection in equine form.
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