00:02Having won the first two-year-old race of the Irish season at the Curragh in 2024,
00:07Arizona Blaze is a horse that has always been of keen interest to those in the industry.
00:11Having raced in the Ammo Silks, the horse proved his soundness of mind by winning or placing in 14 of
00:18his 17 starts.
00:19Now taking up stallion duties at the Irish National Stud, Gary Swift tells us more.
00:33Arizona Blaze has joined us courtesy of Ammo Racing, which we're very, very happy to welcome him.
00:39A gorgeous son of Sergei Prokofiev and has that precocity and mobility that his sires' stock usually have.
00:48And the size walks like a miler, but has the speed of a very, very quick horse.
00:53So I think it's from a sales point of view, people trying to breed a nice athletic foal or yearling.
01:00I think he'll hit that bracket perfectly.
01:03Obviously, this is the first day at the Curragh and he lays down a marker, I suppose, for what was
01:09to be the rest of the season.
01:10For a horse to run at the first day of the Curragh and then to run at the end of
01:13the season at the Breeders' Cup,
01:14that shows a durability that's not always present, I suppose, with two-year-olds these days.
01:20You know, they maybe race three or four times. This horse has 17 runs under his belt, 15 wins in
01:27places.
01:28So the green up the Curragh, the Flying Five is a big scalp for any horse to gather it.
01:34And to do it on your back door here and then retire two or three miles down the road is
01:38a big addition.
01:39You know, good horses have done that down through the years.
01:42Havana Grey did it. You know, dare I say it, it's a stallion-making race.
01:47And all the big horses turn up for it, all the big European horses turn up for it.
01:51And the manner in which he did it, that blistering turn of foot to travel off quick pace and find
01:58another gear or two is, you know, they don't all have it.
02:02So he's 16'2", loads of mobility, loads of bone, great hind leg to him.
02:08Typical Robson kind of horse, macho, masculine and physically imposing.
02:15He's a lot of presence to him when he stands up there.
02:17Again, that's important when you're going breeding foals or yearlings.
02:20You want them to have that little bit of an X factor and this horse seems to ooze quality.
02:25It looks like there's 40 mares, 40 to 45 mares coming from Ammo and obviously they're some of the best
02:31mares in Europe.
02:32And then we'll add 15 mares of our own to that.
02:35So he's starting off with a great chance.
02:37Ammo, yeah, it's been a, so far it's been an amazing bounce for us to get to them.
02:44And I think that'll be a reciprocal kind of relationship.
02:47You know, we obviously have a profile of doing things correctly.
02:50So, but yeah, Ryan McElligot, Robson, everybody has been great to deal with so far.
03:01So, let's go.
03:02Let's go.
03:02Let's go.
03:03Let's go.
03:03Let's go.
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