The legacy of Kind

 

On March 8th 2021, Juddmonte Farms announced that their outstanding broodmare Kind had sadly succumbed to complications following the foaling of a colt by their resident rising star stallion Kingman. This colt was her first live produce since her Galileo filly Chiasma was foaled in 2018. The stakes winning daughter of Danehill had in recent years been blighted by complications in getting in foal.

A homebred of Juddmonte Farms, Kind won six races including two at Listed level. She was also placed in Group 3 company. Retired at the end of her four-year-old campaign. She joined Juddmonte's broodmare band. A daughter of the aforementioned Danehill, she is out of Group 3 heroine Rainbow Lake. She too became a very successful broodmare with her best produce being two time Group/Grade 1 winner Powerscourt who following his retirement from racing stood at Ashford Farm in Kentucky. His biggest success as a sire came with Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Termagant and Grade 1 turf winner Finnegans Wake. Rainbow Lake also produced Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Riposte, now part of Juddmonte Farms broodmare band and Group 3 scorer Last Train.

When Kind retired to the paddocks, her first chosen stallion was the phenomenal Sadler's Wells. That mating resulted in Group 3 Derby Trial winner Bullet Train. He has now embarked on a stallion career and currently resides at Woodfield Farm Stud. It was Kind's mating with Sadler's Wells sire son Galileo that propelled her to become one of the premier broodmares in the world.

Frankel was born on the 11th February 2008. Those at Juddmonte who cared for him during his early days always felt he was out of the ordinary and Frankel certainly proved to be exactly that. He went unbeaten in fourteen races including ten Group 1's and achieved a timeform rating of 143, the highest rating allocated to a racehorse. Frankel has since risen through the stallion ranks and is now recognised as one of the best young sires in the world. He is the sire of multiple Group 1 winners including Cracksman, Without Parole, Soul Stirring, Hungry Heart, Quadrilateral and Anapurna.
 
Following Frankel was his full brother Noble Mission. He went on to become a three time Group 1 winner and emulated his famed brother by culminating his career in the British Champion Stakes. Noble Mission retired to Lanes End Farm in Kentucky. His best progeny to date have been dual Grade 1 winner Code Of Honor and Group winning Spanish Moon. In 2010 Kind produced her first foal by one of Juddmonte’s own resident sires in Oasis Dream. The resulting foal was Morpheus who won three times. He first retired to Tally-Ho stud and is now currently residing at Haras de Toury in France. In 2011 Kind produced her first filly and second produce by Oasis Dream. Subsequently named Joyeuse, she won two listed races and is now developing into a dynamic broodmare. Her progeny to date include Group 1 placed Shamardal mare Jubiloso, stakes placed Dubawi filly Jovial and juvenile winning Galileo colt Maximal. Joyeuse also has a two-year-old brother to Maximal named Badge and a yearling full-brother to Jubiloso.

Following two consecutive vists to Oasis Dream Kind again returned to Galileo which resulted in a flashy chesnut full-brother to Frankel and Noble Mission. He was placed in the care of Andre Fabre and given the name Proconsul. There was much media attention surrounding him however Proconsul was unsuccessful in two starts. He is now residing at Annshoon Stud. Four seasons passed when Kind’s next foal was born. In 2018 she produced her second filly and the first full-sister to Frankel and Noble Mission. Now named Chiasma, she is scheduled to debut in a fillies maiden at Sandown on Friday April 23^rd.  There will be many racing fans beaming if she wins on debut and goes on to record stakes success. Kind’s untimely death was a blow to the breeding industry but with the recent success of her sons and daughters at stud there is no doubt that her name will be appearing in the pedigrees of many Group 1 winners for years to come.

Broodmare Report: Filia Regina

A winner of a minor race as a three-year-old, Filia Regina on pedigree alone was always destined for a career in the paddocks. She resides at her owner and breeders Stanley House Stud in Newmarket. A daughter of Coolmore colossus, Galileo. She is out of multiple Group 1 heroine Ouija Board who  needs little introduction having won the Epsom and Curragh Oaks double as well as The Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf twice in what was an outstanding globetrotting racing career. Ouija Board then transitioned from successful racemare to a successful broodmare. Her best foal is undoubtedly dual Derby winner and Filia Regina's full-brother Australia who is beginning to establish his own success as a stallion for Coolmore. Ouija Board is also the dam of Australian Group winner Voodoo Prince, a son of Kingmambo and multiple Group winning Frontiersman, a son of Dubawi who has sice began a stallion career at Overbury Stud. 

Filia Regina is still relatively in the early years of her second career as a broodmare. Her sire Galileo has firmly established himself as one of Europe's top broodmare sires and with her dams achievements she certainly has every chance to produce a Group winner. She has been given the best possible chance of succeeding. Her first foal was Best Blue, a son of Oasis Dream, he got his dam off to a good start by becoming her first winner from her first runner. Best Blue later changed hands at the Tattersalls July Sale in 2018. Her next offspring is Zoran, a four-year-old colt by Invincible Spirit who is also a winner. Zoran subsequently changed hands at the Autumn Horses in Training sale at Tattersalls last year selling for 77,000 guineas. Since then she has visited Darley's prolific stallion Dubawi on a number of occasions. The only resultant progeny of this mating to have raced has been Persepone who was well beaten on her only start in January of last year. 

Filia Regina has an unraced three-year-old colt named Adrastus, by Dubawi, a two-year-old filly also by Dubawi and a yearling colt by the exciting Kingman. A sire I personally would like to see this mare visit is Lope De Vega who is recognized as one of the best young up and coming sires in Europe. He represents a nice cross for Filia Regina and has a strong strike rate with daughters of Galileo. It remains to be seen whether Filia Regina can transition into a top broodmare but early results show that the future looks intriguing with this young mare and there could yet be a major pedigree update for the family within the next few years.