By Adam Corndorf
Champion Mastercraftsman (Ire) will shuttle to South America again in 2019. The son of Danehill Dancer (Ire) will return to Argentina for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season to stand at Haras Firmamento, where the gray stood in 2016.
Sire of champion Alpha Centauri (Ire) and MGISW A Raving Beauty (Ger), Mastercrafstman is currently leading Chile's stallions ranks, with his son Yo Primo (Chi) winning the G1 El Derby earlier this month.
A four-time Group 1 winner, Mastercraftsman stands at Coolmore Stud in Ireland for a fee of €30,000.
“It is a great pleasure for us to again have this great stallion at the farm,” said Ezequiel Valle of Haras Firmamento. “His first crop foaled here will hit the rings this year and we are very happy with them. Not all the sires can have good records in both hemispheres, but Mastercraftsman is one of them who does. We will run a lot of his fillies next year under our name”.
Mastercraftsman will stand alongside GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hit It a Bomb (War Front), another former Coolmore horse.
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