Into The 'STRADosphere'

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00:00Throughout his racing career, Stradivarius had people flocking to the race course.

00:07His performances were the perfect combination of athleticism and talent, and we are so thankful

00:12to his connections who kept him in training for so long.

00:16As he embarks on his second career as a stallion base at the National Stud, we were fortunate

00:21enough to go along and visit him and see how he's settling in.

00:25With a horse like Stradivarius, I mean, everybody across the world knew about Stradivarius,

00:30but here in Newark, in particular, he was a huge personality on the Heath City, a very

00:34important horse to a lot of people.

00:37So for him then to come to the National Stud, just as I was starting my role as well, was

00:42quite poignant, and it's amazing and it's great to have him here, and we're excited

00:47to launch his stallion career at the National Stud.

00:50Stradivarius, we don't shy away from what he achieves, we're really proud of it.

00:54It's the basis of what we are trying to launch him as, as a stallion.

00:58In terms of the quality that he had, we tell people that he finished races in a certain

01:03way that most horses couldn't.

01:06People understood the quality that he has.

01:09He's by an amazing stallion in Sea of the Stars.

01:12He's got a fantastic pedigree.

01:15He's got the race performance, and physically he's an exceptional animal.

01:19We've had owner breeders who have raced horses for a long time in the sea, and have used

01:24horses like Stradivarius in the past, and have had a lot of success with them, targeting

01:28those mile races, those mile or quarter races, that there's an abundance of prize money to

01:32be won in that area.

01:34And then we get the commercial breeders who are happy to send mares that they know can

01:40produce a nice sales horse, a nice quality, athletic, good walking horse, because as everybody

01:45is well aware, he can move exceptionally well.

01:48So we've had a range of breeders that provide mares from a range of distance, from six foot

01:53long right up to a mile and a half.

01:55We're expecting to cover 100 mares of great quality, and he's looking forward to his new

02:01role here.

02:02He's settled in really well to life here at the National Stud, our new stallion unit manager

02:07Niall Kennedy.

02:08He's gotten to know the horse very well over the last few weeks.

02:12He's got a really simple, but really effective routine, and he's very happy here with the

02:16other stallions that we have.

02:19With Time Test, it is the biggest and best books are coming for him.

02:26He covered 160 mares in 2021, which should lead to a lot of two-year-old runners this

02:32year.

02:33We're hearing great reports back from the trainers.

02:35He's got some leading horses for the big races and the best races in the summertime.

02:42Rajasingh has been an amazing horse for Phil Culligan.

02:46He's a very, very fast horse, one of the Coventry in the fastest time, and now I think people

02:52are starting to connect those dots because he's had an amazing first crop with 80% winners

02:58to runners with horses that has really shown a really good turn of foot.

03:04He's built like a sprinter and he's producing sprinting horse.

03:07We fully expect him now to go on and have some stakes performing on winning horses in

03:122023.

03:13Lopi Fernandes is a horse here at the National Stud that we're hugely excited by.

03:19We are in a great partnership with Nick Bradley, with Whitsbury Manor, and what we're doing

03:25is we're combining what we have to really give a horse that deserves every chance to

03:32be a very successful stallion.

03:34He's had his first foals just this last week.

03:38They are exactly what we thought they would be.

03:40We've been telling breeders over December that Lopi Fernandes will put plenty of bone

03:43and quality into your mare and into the progeny, and that's exactly what we've got.

03:49We're going to see a lot more of the foals coming out over the next few weeks, so we're

03:54really excited for him.

03:55My role here at the National Stud, I started back in October as head of bloodstock, and

03:59incorporates a variety of things that are directly related to the farm, and also dealing

04:04with clients and sales and nominations, so it's really an all-encompassing role, which

04:09I'm very much enjoying, and look forward to hopefully contributing to the National Stud

04:14in the future.

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