Immortal Verse

It is not just the horses who move fast in the world of racing. The winds of fashion, especially when it comes to stallions, are ever changing. All the while the years gallop on, and a filly you can still picture in the heat haze of an Ascot summer is suddenly the third dam of this year's champion. Drive in through the gates of Mount Coote Stud, however, and it feels as though time is standing still. Set in the famed Maigue Valley where a rich seam of Limerick limestone...

Henri Matisse (Wootton Bassett), a top-level winner at both two and three, has been retired from racing and will take up stallion duties at Coolmore Stud in Fethard, Ireland for the 2026 breeding season. A stud fee will be announced in due course. Bred by the Immortal Verse Syndicate, Henri Matisse won his first three starts as a two-year-old at the Curragh, including the G2 Railway Stakes and G2 Futurity Stakes, before filling the runner-up spot behind Scorthy Champ (Mehmas) in the G1 National Stakes at the same venue. After...

The well-bred, Group 1 runner-up Roseman (Ire) (Kingman {GB}-Go Lovely Rose {Ire}, by Pivotal {GB}) has been recruited to stand at LM Stallions at March Hare Stud for 2022. A €650,000 Goffs Orby yearling purchase by trainer Roger Varian on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, Roseman broke his maiden in April of his 3-year-old campaign before finishing runner-up in the Listed Heron S. After taking the Listed Marshall S. over that same mile trip to conclude his season, Roseman returned to run three times in Group 1 company at four...