The Irish National Stud Welcomes Mac Swiney

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00:00Jim Bulger has had many colts go through his hands who have gone on to be influential stallions

00:07once they have retired to stud. The latest colt to have gone through his school and joined

00:11the stallion ranks is Mac Sweeney, a classic winner who was also a Group 1 winning 2-year-old.

00:16Mac Sweeney has taken up residence at the Irish National Stud where we paid him a visit.

00:22Yeah we're delighted to welcome Mac Sweeney to the roster for 2024. A son of new approach

00:27who I believe is a very undervalued stallion. What he did with his first crop of runners

00:32to get 3-year-old Ascot winning 2-year-olds would probably never be matched and for whatever

00:36reason he didn't get the credit he deserved at stud. We're delighted to send Mac Sweeney

00:41like new approach, he's a Group 1 winning 2-year-old, he's a classic winning 3-year-old

00:45and we're looking forward to showcasing him to breeders in the coming weeks. Jim he's

00:50bred some fantastic horses down through the years, bred, owned and trained some fantastic

00:54horses down through the years. Mac Sweeney and Poetic Flair, he had two of them that

00:59year, one won the Irish guineas and the other won the English guineas. Obviously they clashed

01:05on the Curragh for the 2000 guineas and it was a ding dong battle up the home straight

01:08but thankfully Mac Sweeney came out on top that day. Jim's a brilliant trainer and the

01:14list of good horses that he's had through his hands down through the years is endless

01:18and we're delighted that he's staying in for a proportion of the horse and he's going to

01:21send him some very nice mares hopefully. He asked us if we'd kindly join him in partnership

01:25with the horse and after looking at the horse he's a lovely physical, he's got a great walk,

01:30great temperament about him, good loose mover and he's got plenty of size and substance

01:35to him so after looking at the horse it was an easy decision to make to go into partnership

01:39with Mr Bulger. It's very important in the first, but the second and the third year as

01:43well with the stallions we have on the roster here, we like to syndicate them out to the

01:47breeders of Ireland. Breeders like to own equity in a horse and that's what we like

01:52to offer them here with our stallions and we're going to be selling shares in Mac Sweeney

01:56and hopefully we can get a couple of them sold to the right people in the coming weeks.

02:00He won a Curragh Maiden in July and he backed it up by winning the Fraturity Stakes over

02:04seven furlings in the Curragh at two in August. He then went on to win the Verton Fraturity

02:08Trophy which turned out to be a good trial for the guineas in the last couple of years

02:12but this guy didn't win the English guineas but he won the Irish guineas beating the English

02:16guineas winner. There was two or three group one winners directly in behind so the formula

02:20race stacks up very well. He was a precocious horse but he also trained on a tree as well.

02:26He's been at the farm for the last two or three weeks but a very easy horse to deal

02:29with, nothing seems to faze him. He's got great bone, good hip and shoulder to him and

02:35he's a very good loose mover so we think that when the breeders come and see him he'll be

02:40one that they take a liking to for sure. At a fee of 8,000 euro for a Jew group one winner

02:45we feel we've priced him pretty fair.