Mandaloun's Brother Mullion Takes Up Stud Duty in New York

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00:00Mullion garnered attention from the get-go when he broke his maiden by 10 lengths and

00:07was named a TDN Rising Star.

00:10The full brother to derby winner Mandaloon never returned to the track after that win,

00:15but the Juddmont team now has high hopes for their home-bred stud career at Sequel New

00:20York.

00:21Well I think even in an operation like us at Juddmont, we go through a lot of horses

00:25and we obviously are lucky enough to race an awful lot of top-class horses.

00:32And then there are prospects that come along every year or two that absolutely stand out.

00:38Mullion was absolutely one of those obvious horses.

00:42He was the star of his crop all the way through, he had an air and presence about him in everything

00:49that he did.

00:50When he came back in that performance back at Churchill Downs when he ran a four on the

00:55rags and did it with his ears pricked just effortlessly, we saw something that beyond

01:03a shadow of doubt was right up there with some of the greats that we've been lucky enough

01:08to race over the years.

01:09And unfortunately, the reoccurrence of a relatively minor issue but enough to put him on the sideline

01:15for too long made us think, well, now what do we do with him?

01:19And I really, really was motivated to try and make this horse a successive stud because

01:25I had that high of an opinion of him as a racehorse, as a looker, and obviously with

01:31his magnificent classic pedigree as well.

01:33So that's when I met Becky and we jumped headlong into a plan and offered to even put some Juddmont

01:42mares into his book, really, really try and make him the success that I hoped he would

01:49have been if he had been accomplished enough to stand in Kentucky.

01:54Mandolin stood for $25,000 last year and we were absolutely swamped with mares and got

02:02a really good book of mares, bred over 200 mares.

02:05When you're talking about an equal opportunity for New York breeders with a horse that we

02:09feel had similar ability, probably even faster horse, our guess is that he would have been

02:16more of a miler type than Mandolin.

02:23Obviously same pedigree, same exceptional looks, so it's a great opportunity to access

02:30the exact same genetic makeup, but in New York and not having to come down to Kentucky

02:36and pay Kentucky prices for it.

02:39It's that raw talent, that raw brilliance that people seek out in stallions and definitely

02:48Mollion fits the bill.