While he is still delivering results as a stallion, Choisir is enjoying a fine season as a broodmare sire with three stakes winners this week.
On Bastille day the seven-year-old Red Verdon won the Gr2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil over 2800m at ParisLongchamp, following on from the Listed win in Ireland on Monday by Lovelier and last Saturday’s Gr1 July Cup triumph for Oxted.
Interestingly the trio all racing in Europe from offspring emanating from the seasons Choisir shuttled to Coolmore in Ireland.
Oxted (Mayson) is the fourth Group 1 winner for Choisir as a broodmare sire following My Dream Boat (Lord Shanakill), Persuasive (Dark Angel) and Winter (Galileo), a sister to Lovelier.
To date, Choisir has 18 stakes winners from 674 runners as a broodmare sire compared to his 96 from 1758 runners as a sire.
The 18 are by 15 different stallions with Sebring, Galileo and I Am Invincible with two each, Galileo’s brace the sisters Winter and Lovelier.
Oxted is by Mayson, a son of Invincible Spirit and Choisir’s sire Danehill Dancer has Gr2 winner Fiesta by I Am Invincible as a broodmare sire but otherwise there appears no discernible trend.
As a stallion, Choisir has two Gr1 winners out of Encosta de Lago, by Sadler’s Wells’s brother Fairy King, mares and also has Gr1 winners out of mares by Sadler’s Wells and his son Montjeu and this Sadler’s Wells influence is as a broodmare sire he has Gr2 Brazuca (Teofilo) and Iconic Choice (Sixties Icon).
Choisir’s sire Danehill Dancer (Danehill) has enjoyed great success as a broodmare sire with Galileo, notably this year’s Derby winner Serpentine, last year’s Irish Derby winner Sovereign as well as Gr1 winners Circus Maximus, The Gurkha, Minding and Alice Springs.
Choisir’s Gr1 winning son Starspangledbanner has Gr1 winner The Wow Signal out of a mare by High Chaparral (Sadler’s Wells) and his good sprinting son Home Of The Brave is out of a mare by Beat Hollow (Sadler’s Wells).
Choisir himself has no inbreeding within five generations, save for Danehill’s duplication of Natalma, and his female family is an Australian colonial one.
Choisir is the best winner in the first four generations of his pedigree, his third dam Staid (Minor Portion) a winner of the Christmas Cup over a mile and a half in Sydney and his fourth dam Straitlaced (Jambo) a winner of the now Gr1 Flight Stakes at Randwick.
A Group 1 winner in Australia and Great Britain, Choisir (pic: Coolmore) is now a permanent resident at Coolmore’s New South Wales base where he is advertised at $16,500.