BACHELOR DUKE
by Miswaki ex Gossamer (Seattle Slew)


GROUP 1 WINNER AT 3 YEARS

 

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PEDIGREE

 

 

 

 

BACHELOR DUKE

bay

2001

16.0h.h.
(1.62m)


To stud
2005

 Miswaki

Mr Prospector
(1970)

 Raise A Native

Native Dancer
Raise You

 Gold Digger

Nashua
Sequence

 Hopespringseternal
(USA)
(1971)

 Buckpasser

Tom Fool
Bursanda

 Rose Bower

Princequillo
Lea Lane

 Gossamer

Seattle Slew (USA)
(1974)

 Bold Reasoning

Boldenesian
Reason To Earn

 My Charmer

Poker
Fair Charmer

 Lisaleen
(1982)

 Northern Dancer

Neartic
Natalma

 Lisadell

Forli
Thong

Group 1 winner

First crop foals 2006 -
Excellent first book of mares

 

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BACHELOR DUKE -

quickens past both
Azamour
and
Grey swallow
to win the
Irish 2000 Guineas

2008 STUD FEE: € 8,000

RACE RECORD

Earned £183,194 (€274,791) at 2 and 3 years, including:-

Won Gr.1

Irish 2000 Guineas, The Curragh, 1 mile by a length from AZAMOUR (dual Gr.1 winner), GREY SWALLOW (Gr.1 Irish Derby)

3rd Gr.3

Somerville Tattersall Stakes, Newmarket, 7 furlongs, on his second start
(nk/nk to MILK IT MICK and BAYEUX)

4th Gr.1

Dewhurst Stakes, newmarket, 7 furlongs, after being hampered
(beaten hd, 1¼l, hd to MILK IT MICK, THREE VALLEYS and HAAFHD)

TIMEFORM RATING

Rated 115p by Timeform at 2 years; 120 at 3 years, 2004

Timeform (29.09.04): "a good topped colt: very smart performer: best effort when winning Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh in May by a length from Azamour, coming with a strong surge to lead inside final furlong."

 

FROM A FAMILY RENOWNED FOR CHAMPION SIRES

PEDIGREE

Sire: MISWAKI won 6 races at 2 and 3 years, incl. Gr.1 Prix de la Salamandre; 2nd Gr.1 Prix Morny.
A leading international sire with nearly 100 Stakes winners, including BACHELOR DUKE,
KISTENA (Gr.1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp), MARVELLOUS CROWN (Gr.1 Japan Cup), MISIL (Gr.1 Premio Parioli), URBAN SEA (Gr.1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe), WAKI RIVER (Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and Leading Broodmare sire incl. DALAKHANI, DR.FONG, GALILAO, and HERNANDO. Click for more on Miswaki

Dam: GOSSAMER (Seattle Slew), 2 wins, $48.060 in USA; dam of 3 winners, including-
BACHLELOR DUKE, TRANSLUSID (Woodman) - 4 wins, including LR Deutsches Sandbahn Classic.
Grandam: Lisaleen (Northern Dancer), 2 wins at 3; placed 3rd Gr.3 Gilltown Stud Stakes, dam of 6 winners, incl.
MISS TOBACCO - 4 wins, incl, Gr.3 Ostermann-Pokal; 2nd Gr.2 Prix Saint Roman; grandam of stakes winners.
3rd Dam LISADELL, won Gr.2 Coronation Stakes, Gr.2 Athasi Stakes, etc
Own-sister to THATCH.
Half-sister to Special (dam of NUREYEV and grandam of SADLER'S WELLS and FAIRY KING)
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PROGENY

LUMINOUS EYES – Silver Flash Stakes, Gr.3 Leopardstown

 

SALES 2007 - OFF TO A FLYER

Bachelor Duke yearlings were in high demand at the recent European sales, with members of his first crop realising up to €280,000, €185,000, €160,000 and 180,000gns, 100,000gns etc.  In all for 35 sold they averaged nearly 9 times his fee. They will be trained by leading trainers such as Dermot Weld, Jim Bolger, E Lynam, Michael Bell, William Muir, Robert Collet, Roger Charlton etc.

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