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Montjeu
(29th March 2012)
Montjeu, the highest-rated racehorse ever by the great Sadler’s Wells has died this morning at Coolmore Stud after a short illness which was due to complications from an overwhelming septicaemia.
The sire of three Epsom Derby winners including last year’s brilliant winner Pour Moi, as well as Camelot, the favourite for this year’s edition, Montjeu was one of the best stallions in the world and in 2011 he sired 15 individual Group/Graded winners in the northern hemisphere, which was the equal of Galileo.
Montjeu will best be remembered for his incredible wins in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes as well as his runaway victories in the French and Irish Derbies.
Very sad news and a big loss
(29th March 2012)
Montjeu, the highest-rated racehorse ever by the great Sadler’s Wells has died this morning at Coolmore Stud after a short illness which was due to complications from an overwhelming septicaemia.
The sire of three Epsom Derby winners including last year’s brilliant winner Pour Moi, as well as Camelot, the favourite for this year’s edition, Montjeu was one of the best stallions in the world and in 2011 he sired 15 individual Group/Graded winners in the northern hemisphere, which was the equal of Galileo.
Montjeu will best be remembered for his incredible wins in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes as well as his runaway victories in the French and Irish Derbies.
Very sad news and a big loss
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This is indeed very sad news.
This may mean that Coolmore will take a slightly different approach with Wading and Camelot in the races they go for...less commercial pressure to go the mile classics
This may mean that Coolmore will take a slightly different approach with Wading and Camelot in the races they go for...less commercial pressure to go the mile classics
KINANE HAILS 'OUTSTANDING' MONTJEU
29 Mar 2012
Mick Kinane has paid tribute to Montjeu, who died at the age of 16 on Thursday morning following a short illness.
Kinane rode Montjeu to five victories, including in the 1999 Arc and the King George.
He said: "He was a really outstanding racehorse - one of the few outstanding racehorses I've ridden.
"That King George win was pretty good all right. He treated them with contempt that day and it was just a privilege to be on board.
"He had some other good performances in the Irish Derby and the Arc, and he's obviously going to be sadly missed.
"He had an aura about him and a few issues, and the great horses he's sired have all had that as well - that's what's made them great. His fillies have been much better of late as well and I think he's going to end up being an outstanding broodmare stallion.
"He's going to leave a big hole in racing."
29 Mar 2012
Mick Kinane has paid tribute to Montjeu, who died at the age of 16 on Thursday morning following a short illness.
Kinane rode Montjeu to five victories, including in the 1999 Arc and the King George.
He said: "He was a really outstanding racehorse - one of the few outstanding racehorses I've ridden.
"That King George win was pretty good all right. He treated them with contempt that day and it was just a privilege to be on board.
"He had some other good performances in the Irish Derby and the Arc, and he's obviously going to be sadly missed.
"He had an aura about him and a few issues, and the great horses he's sired have all had that as well - that's what's made them great. His fillies have been much better of late as well and I think he's going to end up being an outstanding broodmare stallion.
"He's going to leave a big hole in racing."
Awesome horse. His King George win was sublime and shall always be remembered.
Sire of Motivator,Authorised and Pour Moi. Some horse he was!
with Camelot to come.
won't be surprising if Camelot is retired & sent to stud if it wins the D
won't be surprising if Camelot is retired & sent to stud if it wins the D
Very sad news.
He was a fantastic sire and a truly superb racehorse. Massive loss to Coolmore and to the racing world.
He was a fantastic sire and a truly superb racehorse. Massive loss to Coolmore and to the racing world.
When he was racing, I thought he was arguably as good as anything besides Dancing Brave that'd raced over the previous 25 years - Since then, we've seen Sea The Stars & Frankel so he's probably dropped down the ranks a little.
Nevertheless, a tremendous colt (and wonderful sire) that managed to get Mick Kinane out of a hole, with his sheer brilliance, to counter a rare injudicious Arc ride from his pilot.
Nevertheless, a tremendous colt (and wonderful sire) that managed to get Mick Kinane out of a hole, with his sheer brilliance, to counter a rare injudicious Arc ride from his pilot.
It's very sad news indeed.
There's a nice piece about the great racehorse and stallion here: http://bit.ly/HkEsTt
Montjeu and the end of an era
BY ARJAN STULEN 2:26PM 29 MAR 2012
"I WAS told that one day in 1998 as Demi O'Byrne was watching French racing on Equidia, he saw a two-year-old win his first race at Chantilly. He advised the Coolmore team to get involved in the horse that in O'Byrne's eyes was to become something special.
In 1999, on his third start and first race as a three-year-old, Montjeu would run in the famous Tabor colours and win the Prix Greffuhle at Longchamp, beating another very talented horse called Sendawar. That same year Montjeu would go on to win the French Derby, Irish Derby and Arc de Triomphe, in the latter beating Japanese raider El Condor Pasa in a thrilling finish.
That same year we saw another remarkable horse. Sheikh Mohammed had renamed his Yaazer to Dubai Millennium a year earlier, thinking he could be the perfect horse to run in the new millennium's edition of the Dubai World Cup. Dubai Millennium won two of the biggest mile races that year; the Jacques Le Marois at Deauville and the Queen Elizabeth II at Ascot.
The two horses, Montjeu and Dubai Millennium where the outstanding three-year-olds of 1999.
In 2000, the excitement started in March, Dubai Millennium had arrived at his destiny race, the Dubai World Cup. Leading from start to finish, he annihilated the field with a jaw dropping performance. Two months later Montjeu made his seasonal reappearance by winning the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh. He followed that up by winning the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud.
Dubai Millennium's next race was in the Prince of Wales' Stakes at Royal Ascot. He beat German star Sumitas by 8 lengths. Montjeu would run again a month later in the King George. He in turn never came of the bridle making subsequent Group 1 winners Fantastic Light and Daliapour look like work horses.
By this point in time two camps had formed like with the Beatles and the Stones, you either thought that Montjeu was the best of the crop or you thought that Dubai Millennium was the real deal. It got to the point where even the Coolmore and Godolphin teams agreed that the mattershould be settled and a two-horse match race between them was organised. The race was never run, Dubai Millennium got injured and was forced into early retirement.
Despite Montjeu's next win in the Prix Foy at Longchamp, his best days were behind him too. He went on to finish fourth behind Sinndar in that year's 'Arc', second to Kalanisi in the Champion Stakes and another disappointing seventh in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Montjeu had lost his lethal turn-of-foot.
The next year, in 2001, both Dubai Millennium and Montjeu retired to the paddocks taking up stud duties in Newmarket and Fethard respectively. The former started his career at a hefty £100,000 stud fee, Montjeu at a more modest 30,000 Irish Guineas. In April that year Dubai Millennium suffered from grass sickness and died, leaving his legacy with the few mares he had successfully covered. Dubai Millennium sired Dubawi from his first and only crop, he went on to win the 2,000 Guineas and is currently one of the most promising stallions at stud.
Montjeu went on to produce Group 1 winners such as Motivator, Hurricane Run and Scorpion from his first crop and he would go on to produce two more Derby winners in Authorized and Pour Moi. With last year's Racing Post Trophy winner Camelot he has another promising contender for the ultimate classic.
Back in 2000, while I was in Coolmore, two mares were brought in one morning, one of them with a cowbell around her neck. It was Montjeu's dam, Floripedes. She was blind and had a buddy who guided her with the sound of her cow bell. After Montjeu, Floripedes would give birth to another five foals; three Sadler's Wells colts, a Cearleon and a Polish Precedent, unfortunately none of them as good as Montjeu.
Twelve years after that incredible season with Dubai Millennium and Montjeu, the two stars are no longer among us, leaving their sons like Dubawi, Hurricane Run and Pour Moi to carry on their father's success story. That's what racing and breeding is all about."
There's a nice piece about the great racehorse and stallion here: http://bit.ly/HkEsTt
Montjeu and the end of an era
BY ARJAN STULEN 2:26PM 29 MAR 2012
"I WAS told that one day in 1998 as Demi O'Byrne was watching French racing on Equidia, he saw a two-year-old win his first race at Chantilly. He advised the Coolmore team to get involved in the horse that in O'Byrne's eyes was to become something special.
In 1999, on his third start and first race as a three-year-old, Montjeu would run in the famous Tabor colours and win the Prix Greffuhle at Longchamp, beating another very talented horse called Sendawar. That same year Montjeu would go on to win the French Derby, Irish Derby and Arc de Triomphe, in the latter beating Japanese raider El Condor Pasa in a thrilling finish.
That same year we saw another remarkable horse. Sheikh Mohammed had renamed his Yaazer to Dubai Millennium a year earlier, thinking he could be the perfect horse to run in the new millennium's edition of the Dubai World Cup. Dubai Millennium won two of the biggest mile races that year; the Jacques Le Marois at Deauville and the Queen Elizabeth II at Ascot.
The two horses, Montjeu and Dubai Millennium where the outstanding three-year-olds of 1999.
In 2000, the excitement started in March, Dubai Millennium had arrived at his destiny race, the Dubai World Cup. Leading from start to finish, he annihilated the field with a jaw dropping performance. Two months later Montjeu made his seasonal reappearance by winning the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh. He followed that up by winning the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud.
Dubai Millennium's next race was in the Prince of Wales' Stakes at Royal Ascot. He beat German star Sumitas by 8 lengths. Montjeu would run again a month later in the King George. He in turn never came of the bridle making subsequent Group 1 winners Fantastic Light and Daliapour look like work horses.
By this point in time two camps had formed like with the Beatles and the Stones, you either thought that Montjeu was the best of the crop or you thought that Dubai Millennium was the real deal. It got to the point where even the Coolmore and Godolphin teams agreed that the mattershould be settled and a two-horse match race between them was organised. The race was never run, Dubai Millennium got injured and was forced into early retirement.
Despite Montjeu's next win in the Prix Foy at Longchamp, his best days were behind him too. He went on to finish fourth behind Sinndar in that year's 'Arc', second to Kalanisi in the Champion Stakes and another disappointing seventh in the Breeders' Cup Turf. Montjeu had lost his lethal turn-of-foot.
The next year, in 2001, both Dubai Millennium and Montjeu retired to the paddocks taking up stud duties in Newmarket and Fethard respectively. The former started his career at a hefty £100,000 stud fee, Montjeu at a more modest 30,000 Irish Guineas. In April that year Dubai Millennium suffered from grass sickness and died, leaving his legacy with the few mares he had successfully covered. Dubai Millennium sired Dubawi from his first and only crop, he went on to win the 2,000 Guineas and is currently one of the most promising stallions at stud.
Montjeu went on to produce Group 1 winners such as Motivator, Hurricane Run and Scorpion from his first crop and he would go on to produce two more Derby winners in Authorized and Pour Moi. With last year's Racing Post Trophy winner Camelot he has another promising contender for the ultimate classic.
Back in 2000, while I was in Coolmore, two mares were brought in one morning, one of them with a cowbell around her neck. It was Montjeu's dam, Floripedes. She was blind and had a buddy who guided her with the sound of her cow bell. After Montjeu, Floripedes would give birth to another five foals; three Sadler's Wells colts, a Cearleon and a Polish Precedent, unfortunately none of them as good as Montjeu.
Twelve years after that incredible season with Dubai Millennium and Montjeu, the two stars are no longer among us, leaving their sons like Dubawi, Hurricane Run and Pour Moi to carry on their father's success story. That's what racing and breeding is all about."
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