Dual Group 1 winner Delacroix will shuttle to Coolmore Australia later this year. The Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes victor's fee will be A$38,500 (inc. GST). He joins the newly acquired Super Seth and Home Affairs, the sire of G1 Golden Slipper hero Guest House, among others on the roster.
A 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', the son of Dubawi won the G3 Autumn Stakes and missed taking the G1 Futurity Stakes by a nose at two. Besides his pair of top-level victories and G3 Ballysax Stakes and G3 Derby Trial Stakes wins at three, he also ran second in the G1 Juddmonte International Stakes and fourth in the G1 Champion Stakes. Delacroix is out of $8-million dual-champion racemare Tepin (Bernstein).
“We are thrilled to offer Delacroix to Australasian breeders,” said Coolmore Australia's sales and nominations manager Colm Santry. “He is an outstanding individual with all the attributes we look for in a stallion: quality, athleticism and a world-class pedigree that is free of Danehill and Green Desert blood. Dubawi is one of the most influential sires in the world and, importantly, his sons are already proving a major success in Australia. In addition, he is a son of the great Tepin, a six-time Group 1 winner, including at Royal Ascot, and dual American Champion Female Turf Horse.
“What we've seen with stallions like Night Of Thunder, Ghaiyyath and Too Darn Hot is that this sire line adapts exceptionally well to our conditions, producing versatile horses with speed, class and the ability to train on. Delacroix fits that mould perfectly as a high-class group-winning two-year-old who trained on to win multiple Group 1's as a three-year-old against older horses in the Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes. He's a very exciting addition to our roster.”
The bay stands for €40,000 at Coolmore Stud in Ireland for his first Northern Hemisphere season.
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