National Hunt sires

Ireland Set Fair To Dominate Cheltenham Breeding Ranks

Whichever way you slice it, the green, white and orange of the Irish tricolour ran right through the middle of last year's Cheltenham Festival results. Some 28 races were run during the four biggest days in the jumps racing calendar, and the Irish raiding party won an unprecedented 23 of them. This haul included the four championship prizes, as Honeysuckle (GB) (Sulamani {Ire}) won the Champion Hurdle, Put The Kettle On (Ire) (Stowaway {GB}) claimed the Champion Chase, Flooring Porter (Ire) (Yeats {Ire}) took the Stayers' Hurdle and Minella Indo...

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Walzertakt To Stand At Chapel Stud

Walzertakt (Ger) (Montjeu {Ire}), winner of the 2015 G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil and G3 Prix Gladiateur for Gestut Aesculap and trainer Jean-Pierre Carvalho, moves to Chapel Stud to stand as a National Hunt sire in 2022 after four seasons at Haras de la Croix Sonnet in France. Chapel Stud Director Roisin Close said, "Walzertakt is a big, strong, good-looking horse, a very typical stamp of his sire Montjeu. His pedigree is rapidly turning into a German masterclass of breeding, full of champions and Group 1 winners of the highest...

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