Pedigree

Sire: SHAMARDAL
Won Gr.1 Poule d' Essai Des Poulains, Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club, Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes, Gr.1 St. James's Palace Stakes, etc.

Sire of: Lope De Vega, Casamento (Gr.1 at 2, 2010), Faint Perfume (Gr.1), Captain Sonador (Gr.1), Shakeespearean (Gr.2), No Evidence Needed (Gr.2), Zazou (Gr.2) Dubai Prince (Gr.2), Elle Shadow (Gr.3), Duel (Gr.3), Dunboyne Express (Gr.3), French Navy(Gr.3), etc.

Dam: Lady Vettori

Won 5 two year old races, incl. Gr.3 Prix du Calavados, 3rd Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac, LR Criterium Du Bequet, 2nd LR Prix Imprudence: rate 107.
Dam of 5 winners, Including, Lope De Vega, Bal De La Rose (Gr.3 Prix Andre Baboin, LR Prix La Sorellina)

The Immediate Family of:
Lady Blessington (Gr.2 All Along Stakes, Gr.2 Prix Minerve), Lowell (Gr.3 Prix Andre Baboin, 4th Gr.1 Hollywood Gold Cup, sire), Gotta Have Her (Gr.2 Royal Heroine Mile, Gr.3 La Cienagas Stakes), etc.

The Classic Family of La Mirambule, etc.

Race Record

Won Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, 8f, Longchamp, beating DICK TURPIN (Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat), POET’S VOICE (Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes), SIYOUNI (Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere), BUZZWORD (Gr.1 Deutsches Derby), ZAZOU (Gr.2), RAJSAMAN (Gr.3), etc.

Won Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club, 10.5f, Chantilly, by 3 lengths, beating CAPE BLANCO (Gr.1 Irish Derby, Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes), BEHKABAD (Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris), ICE BLUE (Gr.2), ROYAL BENCH (Gr.2), CELTIC CELEB (Gr.2), PAIN PERDU (Gr.3), etc.

3rd Gr.3 Prix de Fontainebleau, 8f, Longchamp

4th Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (Grand Criterium), 8f, Longchamp, at 2

He also won the Prix Montaigu at Deauville and Prix Al Khor at Longchamp on his first two starts at 2 years.

Winners

Lope De Vega First Crop of Foals 2012

Sales Results

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Latest News

11/08/12
First Reported foals for Lope De Vega in the Southern Hemisphere have been reported with the mare Automated Response having a filly foal on the 9th of August 2012. 
We wish Kinross Park all the success with this Filly.  

02/07/12
Lope De Vega's First Crop Foals.

Ex Danaskaya.	Ex Elegant As Well

26/04/12
Gorband, dam of unbeaten Group 2 winner Harbour Watch and South African Grade 1 winner Europa Point foaled a colt by Lope de Vega yesterday evening, he is described by his breeders Tom and Geraldine Molan of Riversfield Stud as ‘outstanding’. 

29/02/12
Lope De Vega's

first crop foals.

First Crop Foals

Ch.f. 20th January by Lope De Vega ex Danielli (Danehill). Dam half sister to Gr 1. winners Eva's Request and Priory Belle	Ch.f 16th January by Lope De Vega ex Bougainvillea (Acatenango). Dam of Gr.3 winner Burma Gold.

07/02/12
Misty Daylight, sold in foal to Lope de Vega realised €185,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Mixed Winter Sale in Kentucky.  This sales result was no doubt helped by the positive reports on the Lope de Vega foals already on the ground.

18/01/12 
The first reported foal by Lope de Vega, also bred by Gestut Ammerland, arrived at Haras d'Ommeel in France on 16th January when the mare Bougainvillea foaled a chesnut filly described by the stud as being 'a nice foal, with a good head and plenty of bone'. The filly is half sister to Group 3 winner Burma Gold and her dam is a winning full sister to Group 1 winner Borgia.

12/07/11
Lope de Vega has now left Ballylinch Stud and is in quarantine in Newmarket, UK prior to his shipping to Australia where he will stand the Southern Hemisphere season at Patinack Farm in New South Wales.

01/03/2011
The first mare covered by Lope De Vega has been scanned in foal.
The Mare is Melatonina (King Charlemagne) a winning half sister to three black-type winners, including Gr.2 Prix Eugene Adam winner and sire Look Honey (Sadler's Wells).

John O Connor "We are delighted with the quality of the mares in Lope de Vega's first book these include; Hold On (Surumu), the Dam of four-times Gr.1 winner Borgia (Acatenango), the Gr.2 winner Missit (Orpen), the multiple Stakes winner and Gr.1-placed Les Fazzani (Intikhab), the GR.3 winner Sevenna (Galileo), and Lidanna (Nicholas) a Gr.3 winner and black type producer."