00:04So this year at Ashford Stud we're delighted to welcome four new recruits to our stallion roster
00:10who had exemplary race records on the track and are impeccably bred. They are four horses who've
00:16got amazing credentials and took their race records not only around this country but also
00:26around the world. Nyquist as a stallion gives immense speed and I think Nysos was the greatest
00:33embodiment of that. Up two and at a mile he proved himself virtually unbeatable. He was
00:38never out of the first two in all ten of his starts. As a two-year-old he was exceptional
00:44winning his maiden and then winning the Bob Hope at Del Mar. We'll never ever forget that
00:49ding-dong battle with Citizen Bull in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and then to come back and run
00:56with such aplomb in Saratoga in the Met Mile was extraordinary. So he's a horse that he offers
01:02breeders a huge amount of speed. Out of a Bernardini mare, he comes from a very very good family.
01:09To look at, he's all power. I mean he's got an amazing Gaskin big black horse with a great
01:15hip, balanced shoulder and at 80,000 he's a horse that's going to be very popular with breeders.
01:23Magnitude was a horse that came on our radar pretty early. He's amazing looking. I mean he's
01:28a horse that oozes quality. He's big, beautiful, he's everything you want in a stallion and a stallion
01:34prospect. I think for us when he first came on the radar was when he won the Risen Star. He
01:39was so
01:39dominant that day. He cemented his ability as a four-year-old by going to Dubai and beating such a
01:44stellar field there including Forever Young. I think that was when we really knew this was a
01:49horse we had to have. And obviously winning the Stephen Foster exceptionally well. Not This Time
01:54is an amazing stallion in his own right. I think a horse like him is the closest relation you've got
02:01to Giant's Causeway and one step away from Stormcat. So I think that's something very attractive
02:05for us. Again out of a mare by Bernardini which is a huge influence. Even in the past two years
02:11he's
02:11Brugmere's sire of horses like Nysos, Sovereignty, Golden Tempo, Magnitude. He stands almost 16.3.
02:20He's beautifully proportioned, very very good mover and he exudes class.
02:26I think the fact that Journalism competed so well on the Triple Crown Trail I think he's a fan
02:32favourite. None of us will ever forget the race he ran in the Preakness when it looked like all was
02:38lost
02:39and through the horse's bravery, Umberto Raspoli's guts, they took a chance and it paid off. But for
02:46Sovereignty he was a Triple Crown winner and it shows how good Sovereignty was and shows how good
02:53Journalism was as well. When you take into account Santa Anita Derby, second in the Kentucky Derby,
02:57winning the Preakness, second in the Belmont and then to go on and win the Haskell. He was a
03:02a force to be reckoned with. He was as good and as solid and as sound a racehorse as you
03:08could hope for.
03:09And you know, all credit to Mike McCarthy and to Donald Berto and Eclipse Thoroughbib partners,
03:14the ownership group that campaigned him. We've never stood a son of Carlin here before. We're excited to do that.
03:23Paladin was one of those horses that I think we all looked forward to seeing before we ever
03:29even saw him. I mean, he's so impeccably well bred. Gunrunner obviously needs no introduction,
03:33out of a tap at Mare's secret side, but he comes from the family of India.
03:36It became very apparent this horse was a talking horse around the sale of Saratoga. His price
03:41reflected that at 1.9 million. He was a horse that although he had quite a short racing career,
03:46he had a pretty fulfilling one in terms of, you know, he beat Renegade first time out in his maiden,
03:52came back and beat him again in the Remsen and then beat Golden Tempo this year in the Risen Star.
04:01I think when you look at the first season crop of sires that are standing this year,
04:06Paladin offers true value at 20,000. There's not many horses that have that combination of pedigree,
04:12power and brilliance. He'll be a horse that every breeder will love to use.
04:22we go.
04:22we go…
