Sire: Almanzor
Colour: Bay
Dam: Shanya
Sex: Gelding
Age: 2
Foaled: Sep 25, 2022
Country: New Zealand
Silks: Dark Blue, White Star, Chequed Sleeves & Cap
Owners: Belhus Racing, G Berry, B Bynon, M Campeotto, P Campeotto, P Cannington, R Capriotti, I Davis, R Hanrahan, A Mangan, C Menagh, C Nolan, C Sawyer, C Skipper, M Stephenson, B Tyrrell, A West, D Traynor.
Almanzor is dual hemisphere stallion who shuttles for the two breeding seasons between France and New Zealand. A Champion European 3yo, Almanzor won three times at the elite level, and also won a Group 2, a Group 3 and a Listed race too. All up he won 8 races, 6 of them at Black Type level to 2100m including the Champion Stakes at Newmarket, The Irish Champion Stakes and The Prix du Jockey Club in France.
This 3yo gelding by Almanzor is out of Shanya, a broodmare who hails from a stout European family with considerable staying success. At stud she’s had three to race for three winners. A late maturing type of medium size, he was purchased through the New Zealand Bloodstock National Online Yearling Sale for a tick over $6,000 and whilst it’s cost much more than that to see him landed in Perth, he’s still an Almanzor from a staying bred family, and one that if he’s shown the patience that he needs, could develop into a nice type that’s capable of running a journey.
He’s being trained in Perth by Grant & Alana Williams who know a thing or two about training stayers!