Lope Y Fernandez Bolstered By Connections

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00:00One of the most exciting times for any young stallion stud career is the arrival of his

00:12first crop of foals, and one horse who has this connection singing his praises is Lope

00:16Fernandez who stands in the national stud but is owned by a group of shrewd industry

00:21players who are throwing their weight behind him.

00:24The team behind the impressive son of Lope de Vega tell us about the support he has received

00:28and indeed the support that his progeny will have further down the line.

00:34The year prior to Lope Fernandez being available I was noticing post Brexit being announced

00:40that all these top race horses were going to stand in primarily Ireland because a lot

00:46of the breeders are based in Ireland and it was concerning to me so I spoke to a lot of

00:52UK breeders and I said come on we need to get ourselves organised here so when the right

00:57horse comes on the market we can do something about it.

01:01We really weren't planning on buying a new stallion last year, we were having a busy

01:06year at Whitsbury and we wanted to give Sergey Pakofiev another year in the limelight but

01:11when I went and saw Lope Fernandez I just thought this is a horse we need to get involved

01:16with.

01:18I got talking with the national stud and Nick Bradley and thought you know can we put a

01:23group together, bring three studs together with Coolmore to buy Lope Fernandez and stand

01:29him here.

01:30Once we'd agreed the split of the partnership we stood in here and it couldn't have gone

01:36any better.

01:37I think it's a principle of we're stronger together so to incorporate really prominent

01:42breeders such as Whitsbury and Manor who have had the most unbelievable year alongside Nick

01:47Bradley as well coming together to really support a stallion deserves its chance at

01:52stud here in the UK.

01:54One of his best qualities is the way he walks, he's such an athletic horse, he stands well

01:58over 16 hands, he's got that deep dark colour to him which breeders love and physically

02:05he's just a very imposing horse.

02:07As the only son of Lufthavaga standing here in Great Britain it offers breeders here the

02:12opportunity to access some of the best sire lines in the world, Lufthavaga has done amazing

02:16things over the last number of years and now is without a doubt a sire is a sire so to

02:21offer breeders here that opportunity is something we're really looking forward to doing.

02:25His first book was he was incredibly well supported, his study covered 135 mares, his

02:30fertility is exceptional so a large majority of them were in full and then going into this

02:36season he's been again supported by some of the best breeders around who recognise that

02:41as a son of Lufthavaga standing here in Great Britain offers him the chance to breed a really

02:46good racehorse.

02:48So we've had four foals born so far, the guys, the foaling team are actually lyrical

02:54about three of them, the best one or certainly one that stands out to my eye at the moment

02:59would be one out of a mare called Spain Blues, she produced Spain Berg who won the Rockfell

03:05Stakes here to Culp and he's got a great shoulder, he's got a great hip, you can't judge their

03:12action yet but I'd be amazed if he didn't have a great action to go with it.

03:16I think we've got 25 on the list to send him this season and we'll be buying his foals

03:21as well in the ring like we usually try and support so really he's under the Whitsbury

03:26banner, he's just standing with the National stand and getting all the benefit from being

03:31right in the heart of Newmarket.

03:33This year we'll be sending double figure mares to him, I'm actually at the sale just going

03:36to buy some here for him and then down the line I'll be looking when the foal sales happen

03:42obviously we'll be selling foals at that sale but I'll be very busy because I'll be trying

03:45to buy the best Lope Fernandez filly foals to be part of the racing organisation and

03:51then when the yearling sales come round same thing again I'll be out there trying to buy

03:55the best filly foals.

03:57This is the beauty of the syndicate, I think we all bring something to the table, we're

04:02supporting him heavily with Whitsbury mares, the National stand are doing a great job marketing

04:07the horse and locationally it couldn't be better, we've belonged to right in the middle

04:11of the mare population so we thank the National stand for that, Nick is sending a lot of his

04:17mares as well but where Nick will really come into his own with the stallion partnership

04:22is he buys a lot of yearlings for a very successful syndicate so I've never been involved in a

04:28stallion that's not just had the supply side of the mares helping him but actually the

04:33demand side buying the yearlings as well which is fairly unique for a commercially priced

04:37horse.

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