Hi FOS
Val Royal has been very well supported in Ireland, covering 74 mares in 2005. His first yearling are of 2005 (first 2yr olds of 2006). His yearling avearge was 18,944 gns for colts, roughly $34,220. His highest priced yearling was sold for 75,000 gns, roughly $135,482.
He is wonderful horse, from the Nijinsky line, and from a classy Aga Khan family. His stakes winning half sister, has produced the 2005 Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes winner, Valixir, while another stakes placed half sister has produced the Gr.1 winning filly, Vadawina, also in 2005.
Nureyev v Nijinsky...extremely different physical types
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hello again UK Breeder (19)
Based on the info you supply (and by the way thanks)...it seems that Val Royal was supported nicely in both the breeding shed and at the sales.
That...coupled with his genuine talent as a racehorse and brilliant turn of foot (which he clearly exposed to a huge international television audience in the BC Mile) seems to bode well for his chances for success as a sire.
We'll see (soon enough) what he can get in the way of runners...but I would expect that he's got the makings to get some good ones...maybe even better than good.
Respectfully
Based on the info you supply (and by the way thanks)...it seems that Val Royal was supported nicely in both the breeding shed and at the sales.
That...coupled with his genuine talent as a racehorse and brilliant turn of foot (which he clearly exposed to a huge international television audience in the BC Mile) seems to bode well for his chances for success as a sire.
We'll see (soon enough) what he can get in the way of runners...but I would expect that he's got the makings to get some good ones...maybe even better than good.
Respectfully
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Well FOS you have to admit that cruelly robbed was true in so far that he was a great talent and should have gone down in history as the victor. In the early 80s in Sydney Australia during the running of the Golden Slipper < the worlds richest 2yr old race> the winner wiped out half of the field but the stewards left him up and instead gave the rider a months suspension and fined him the maximum $50,000 for careless riding. Oh and on the subject of Nijinsky he really was not right after the St Ledger and was covered in ringworm when narrowly beaten in the Arc. In hindsight considering his later problems behind with Lymphangitis I suspect that his immune system was perhaps never normal after his fabulous 3yr old year.
hi wilf
You wrote "Well FOS you have to admit that cruelly robbed was true in so far that he was a great talent and should have gone down in history as the victor."
Agreed. Furthermore I still sense a sadness of sorts when I replay the race (in my mind) still thoroughly convinced to this day that the oh-so-breathtakingly-beautiful and extremely gifted Nureyev was MUCH the best in the Guineas...and had his claim to victory snatched from him maybe moreso by his jockey Philippe Paquet (as a result of miscalculation which arguably led to recklessness) which could have (but fortunately did not) lead to an accident (or worse).
Clearly jockey Paquet had temendous confidence in his mount (and rightfully so) and ultimately Paquet chose to guide his mount directly into traffic with (I expect) the hope (or expectation) that a hole would open up that they could sail through. As you know, a necessary hole never opened up until Paquet asked his very willing mount to make one. Nureyev smashed his way through (when asked)...and despite the fact that I would have loved Nureyev to have been the official winner...I understand (even as difficult as it was to accept) the stewards decision to take his number down.
Such a shame...Nureyev was so MUCH THE BEST.
Respectfully
You wrote "Well FOS you have to admit that cruelly robbed was true in so far that he was a great talent and should have gone down in history as the victor."
Agreed. Furthermore I still sense a sadness of sorts when I replay the race (in my mind) still thoroughly convinced to this day that the oh-so-breathtakingly-beautiful and extremely gifted Nureyev was MUCH the best in the Guineas...and had his claim to victory snatched from him maybe moreso by his jockey Philippe Paquet (as a result of miscalculation which arguably led to recklessness) which could have (but fortunately did not) lead to an accident (or worse).
Clearly jockey Paquet had temendous confidence in his mount (and rightfully so) and ultimately Paquet chose to guide his mount directly into traffic with (I expect) the hope (or expectation) that a hole would open up that they could sail through. As you know, a necessary hole never opened up until Paquet asked his very willing mount to make one. Nureyev smashed his way through (when asked)...and despite the fact that I would have loved Nureyev to have been the official winner...I understand (even as difficult as it was to accept) the stewards decision to take his number down.
Such a shame...Nureyev was so MUCH THE BEST.
Respectfully