With the Flat season now underway, the attention turns to the list of Freshman sires with their first juvenile runners this season. Among the many impressive line up of First Season sires is 2009 world champion Sea The Stars. This majestic athlete was a 6 time group one winner as a three year old his major wins including the Gr1 stanjames.com 2,000 guineas, The Investic Derby, The Eclipse, The Juddmonte International Stakes, The Irish Champion Stakes and the eminent Prix De Arc De Triomphe. As well as being an outstanding looking individual he possess an outstanding sires pedigree by champion miler Cape Cross a son of the well known sire of sires Green Desert, Sea The Stars is out of the 1993 Arc winner Urban Sea who is also the dam of "The Best Sire In The World" Galileo. As well as being the dam of two Derby winners Urban Sea is also the dam of All To Beautiful and Melikah both placed in the Epsom Oaks, she is also grand-dam of Oaks placed Wonder Of Wonders (Kingmambo x All To Beautiful) , Group two Rockfell Stakes winner Wading (Montjeu x Cherry Hinton) and 2012 Arc placed Masterstroke (Monsun x Melikah) Sea The Stars dam Urban Sea also possessed a pedigree that suggested she may become a huge influential broodmare she is a daughter of successful sire/damsire Miswaki (himself a Gr1 winning son of legendary US sire and sire of sires Mr Prospector) out of German bred Allegretta she herself produced classic winner/sire King's Best (Kingmambo) who currently stands in Japan . This incredible page of classic winners and sires puts Sea The Stars firmly on the list as being a sire capable of producing the next generation of classic winners.
Sea The Stars won from distances ranging from 8F to 12F in the space of six months, he was supported by some of the best breeders in the world he attracted a book of 140 mares in his first season the list featured many top class Group one winners or the dams of Group one winners. His first foals sold in 2010 made six figure sums the highest was E850,000 at Goffs for a colt out of Affianced she is already the dam of Group three winner Heliostatic and his classic winning, dual Group one winning brother Soldier Of Fortune both are by Sea The Stars half brother Galileo. His yearlings also didn't dissapoint with E500,000 etc being paid for a colt at Tattersalls out of Yummy Mummy a full sister to five times Group one winner Fame And Glory
Sea The Stars progeny have been praised by trainers with his own handler John Oxx responsible for fourteen of his one hundred and seventeen two year olds registerd with Wetherbys. As Sea The Stars didn't make his debut until July i would not be expecting to see his progeny out until June at least, hes a sire that could sire the odd major two year old but I would be expecting his progeny to really improve from two to three, ranging from distances to a mile onwards while some of his progeny could excel at 10F.
Sea The Stars has been one of the most impressive racehorses to go to stud in a while and with a fantastic race record plus an outstanding book of mares in his first three seasons this is a horse who should go onto better things in the breeding shed. All eyes will be on his eagerly awaited first runner.
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