The past flat season has once again proved a very fruitful one for Coolmore. They currently own and bred both European champion two-year-olds Us Navy Flag, by War Front and Clemmie a daughter of their outstanding sire Galileo. With an abundance of mares from the same sirelines as other European stallions Coolmore are constantly looking for new international bloodlines, as was the case with American sire War Front they seem to have discovered another internationally based sire courtesy of Deep Impact having bred the second joint leading two-year-olds in Saxon Warrior and September. The former ended his juvenile campaign unbeaten in three races culminating in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy while the latter was a Royal Ascot stakes winning Group 1 placed juvenile. They are both the early products of Coolmore support to Japan's premier sire. Although raced exclusively in Japan, Deep Impact has a truly international pedigree. He is by dual American Classic winner Sunday Silence while his dam Wind In Her Hair is an Irish bred Oaks placed daughter of Alzao, who coincidentally had previously stood at Coolmore.
Since his retirement to stud in 2007, Deep Impact has been Japanese champion sire every year since he began to have runners. His consistency to produce high class Group 1 winning juvenile's and classic three-year-olds in every racing crop was enough to get the attention of international breeders and take note of his phenomenal success. Deep Impact's European appeal first came to prominence when in May 2012, Beauty Parlour, who was from only her sires second crop won the French 1000 Guineas. In the years that followed Kizuna and A Shin Hikari, both trained in Japan won the Group 2 Prix Neil and Group 1 Prix d'Ispahan respectively.
During this time Coolmore began to ponder on the potential rewards of sending some of their former high class mares to Deep Impact in the hope that the resultant progeny can become a force in the European racing ranks. Due to a high number of recently retired fillies bred on crosses synonyms with other leading sires in Europe, Deep Impact provided a very suitable alternative. In 2013, a year after Beauty Parlour's success in France champion juvenile Maybe and champion three-year-old Peeping Fawn would be shipped out to Japan. The following year produced a filly and a colt. The filly Pavlenko out of Maybe became stakes placed as a three-year-old while the colt out of Peeping Fawn named Wisconsin won his maiden at the second attempt. Both Maybe and Peeping Fawn stayed in Japan during 2014 re-visiting Deep Impact. It was the second liaison with the stallion that proved the successor with the aforementioned Saxon Warrior and September the products. Last year also saw the introduction of Conclusion who is out of Group 3 winning mare Cherokee, he ran twice as a juvenile and finished second on his recent start.
Having produced two leading juveniles from their early partnerships with Deep Impact, it has unsurprisingly prompted Coolmore to send more higher graded mares. It is reported that the outstanding dual classic winning pair of Minding and Winter, both by Galileo were recently shipped to Japan to be covered by Deep Impact, given the recent success and the fact that Kissed By Angel's, a Group 3 winning sister to Minding has a colt foal by Deep Impact, the news of Minding and Winter's first covering comes as no surprise to a bloodstock fan. Other outstandingly bred mares from the Coolmore band due to Deep impact in 2018 include Best In The World, a sister to Arc heroine Found and Fluff, a sister to Saxon Warrior's dam Maybe. It is with great certainty that in the immediate future there will be a number of sons of daughters of Deep Impact representing him across racecourses in Ireland, Britain and France.
