Coolmore stallions fill top 5 places in sires’ championship
13th November 2007
After a tremendous season that included brilliant performances from the likes of Dylan Thomas and Peeping Fawn, Danehill has posthumously been crowned champion sire for a third successive year in 2007.
Indeed Coolmore stallions fill the first five places in the British and Irish 2007 sires’ championship. Galileo, whose best performers included champion two-year-old New Approach, is in second place, just ahead of Montjeu, who was responsible for the Derby winner Authorized.
In fourth place was Danehill Dancer with the 14-times champion Sadler’s Wells still going strong in fifth place. Rock Of Gibraltar, who has returned to Coolmore for the 2008 breeding season, lies in seventh.
It is the 18th successive year that the British and Irish sires’ championship has gone to a Coolmore stallion and the 20th in total.
Meanwhile Danehill also heads the table of leading European Pattern Race Sires in 2007, with Montjeu in second place, Galileo in third and Sadler’s Wells filling fourth position.
Galileo is the leading sire of two-year-olds in Britain and Ireland while Sadler’s Wells, maternal grandsire of Peeping Fawn, headed the table for top broodmare sires.