First Season Sire: Champs Elysees

Champs Elysees is another young sire with a pedigree to make the frame when he will have his first runners in 2013. Champs Elysees was third on his only start at two. A multiple Group three winner and Group three placed at 3 and 4 years old, Champs Elysees was sent for a campaign in the US as a five year old where he became a multiple Grade one winner. A tough and consistent performer he won two Grade ones as a five year old in the Hollywood Turf Stakes and the Northern Dancer Turf Stakes he was third in both the Canadian International and Santa Anita Handicap respectively. Returning at six Champs Elysees won the Grade one Canadian International that was his only Grade one win at six but he still proved to be a very consistent performer running second in the Santa Anita and fourth in the Northern Dancer Turf Stakes. He was shipped back to Britain to his homeplace Banstead Manor Stud where he began his stud career in 2010.

Champs Elysees pedigree needs no introduction by one of the most outstanding sires in Danehill he is out of an equally outstanding broodmare in Hasili  dam of six individual Group/Grade one winners. Champs Elysees is a full brother to Group winner and outstanding sire Dansili as well as Group/Grade one winners Banks Hill (already the dam of Group three winner Romantica by Galileo), Cacique, Intercontinental he is half brother to Ideal World and Grade one winner Heat Haze and also to Deluxe placed twice in the Group one Prix Saint Alary.

His second dam Kerali is the dam of another proven Group one producer in Arrive (a full sister to Hasili) Arrive is dam of Group one winner Promising Lead and Group three winner and Group one placed Visit.

This impressive line up of Group one winners is enough to put Champs Elysees in the frame as a future sire to  be reckoned with he is probably along with his brother Dansili  the most regally bred sire on the Juddmonte Stallion roster and he didn't dissapoint covering half sisters to star horses such as Harbinger,Aqlaam, Look Here and Zafonic they were part of a book that included half sisters to fifty Group winners.

Champs Elysee's strikes me as a sire that could sire some nice fillies but he should also get some nice colts capable of winning at the highest level , he too could be a force to be reckoned with when his offspring are older horses,as he got older himself he got better.

His dam Hasili got Grade one winners in the US and i can genuinely see him siring US winners in time.