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Choisir

Australia

Choisir

Chestnut 1999 16.0½ hh
Danehill Dancer - Great Selection
Distance won over: 1000m to 1200m.

Choisir will be remembered in history as a racing legend. He was an Australian Champion at 2. At 3 Choisir was a global sprinting sensation. In Australia he was again a Champion and the winner of the Gr.1 Lightning Stakes at Flemington. Within the space of 5 days at Royal Ascot, England Choisir defeated the best that Europe had to offer in the Gr.1 Golden Jubilee Stakes and the Gr.2 King’s Stand Stakes. For 2007 Incumbent won the Gr. 2 VRC Sires' Produce Stakes and in 2008 Hurried Choice won the Gr.2 Challenge Stakes.

Fee for 2008: $33,000

Weekend Stakes Treble Highlights Choisir

(30th September 2008, Australia)
Champion sprinter Choisir has really hit the heights in his stud career this spring demonstrated clearly on the weekend with a stakes double at Randwick posted by Dreamscape and Sara’s Choice followed by a slick stakes win in England for Meydan Princess. View article

Weekend Stakes Treble Highlights Choisir

Princess takes Ascot stakes for Choisir

(28th September 2008, Ireland)
The Jeremy Noseda-trained Meydan City (3f Choisir-Miss Assertive, by Zafonic) looks a filly on the upgrade after running away with the Listed October Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. View article

Dreamscape Aims Towards Caulfield Guineas

(27th September 2008, Australia)
Exciting prospect Dreamscape (3c Choisir x Faith in Dreams, by Ferdinand) overcame a tardy start to score a dominant win in the Group Two AJC Stan Fox Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. View article

Dreamscape Aims Towards Caulfield Guineas

First Stakes Success for Sara’s Choice

(27th September 2008, Australia)
It’s always good to cast off maiden status and particularly so when it’s in a Black Type event as happened for talented filly Sara’s Choice (3f Choisir x Momentous Ride, by Puissance) in the Listed AJC Reginald Allen Handicap. View article

First Stakes Success for Sara’s Choice

Choisir and Tale of the Cat Provide Trial Stars

(19th September 2008, Australia)
Standouts at the Randwick two year-old barrier trials on Friday morning were Horizons (2f Choisir x Ubiquity, by Hurricane Sky) and Real Saga (2cTale of the Cat x Windy Kate, by Air Express), the fastest filly and colt on show. View article

Choisir and Tale of the Cat Provide Trial Stars

Hurried Choice Cracks Half a Million

(13th September 2008, Australia)
Quality sprinting mare Hurried Choice made the most of her light weight in the Group Two STC Theo Marks Stakes over 1300 metres at Rosehill on Saturday, leading her rivals a merry dance and then refusing to give in. View article

Hurried Choice Cracks Half a Million

Brilliant Win for Stanton

(10th September 2008, Australia)
Exciting three year-old Stanton (3g Choisir x Sandy Lane, by Spinning World) delivered a knockout blow to the much vaunted Redoute’s Choice colt Dancefloor Prodigy in the Ratings 72 event over 1200 metres at Sandown on Wednesday. View article

Brilliant Win for Stanton

Gooree Bred Winners Impress

(4th September 2008, Australia)
Provincial racing at Ballarat and Wyong on Thursday produced a couple of progressive three year-old winners in Percussive (3f Encosta de Lago x So Striking, by Pre-Emptive Strike) and Champagne Harmony (3f Choisir x Hansuyen, by Zabeel). View article

Gooree Bred Winners Impress

Choisir juvenile wins 300,000 euros race

(24th August 2008, Ireland)
The Kevin Prendergast-trained Choose Me (2f Choisir-Hecuba, by Hector Protector) enjoyed a bumper payday at the Curragh on Saturday when capturing the 300,000 euros Tattersalls Ireland Sales Stakes. View article

Spectacular Debut for Choisir Colt

(23rd August 2008, Australia)
Few horses make their debut in a Group Three event as a three year-old and even fewer go on to win, but that was the case with the Gai Waterhouse trained colt Dreamscape. View article

Spectacular Debut for Choisir Colt

Five Straight for Simplest

(13th August 2008, Australia)
Up in grade, down in weight proved a winning move for the connections of in-form sprinter Simplest (4h Choisir x Mad Desire, by Covetous), who notched his fifth straight win at Eagle Farm on Wednesday. View article

Five Straight for Simplest

Four on Trot for Simplest

(2nd August 2008, Australia)
Consistent sprinter Simplest (4h Choisir x Mad Desire, by Covetous) maintained his recent outstanding form when posting his fourth consecutive victory at Doomben on Saturday. View article

New Stakes-Winner for Choisir

(28th July 2008, Australia)
Currently the leading second season sire in Australia by individual winners, former champion sprinter Choisir featured in England on Sunday when Choose Your Moment took the Listed Pomfret Stakes. View article

More stakes for Fat Boy

(2nd June 2008, Ireland)
The gutsy Choisir colt Fat Boy (3c Choisir-Gold Shift, by Night Shift) landed his third stakes success at Haydock on Saturday in the Listed Rectangle Group Sandy Lane Stakes. View article

Newbury stakes success for Choisir

(18th May 2008, Ireland)
Three-year-old Fat Boy (3c Choisir-Gold Shift, by Night Shift) landed his second Listed success at Newbury on Friday when comfortably justifying odds-on favouritism in the Carnarvon Stakes. View article

Debut Winner for Choisir

(13th May 2008, Australia)
Former champion sprinter Choisir posted yet another new winner at Canterbury on Tuesday when the Gai Waterhouse trained first starter Gold Water (2f Choisir x Float, by Devil's Bag) led throughout to win easily. View article

Smart HK Winner for Choisir

(8th May 2008, Australia)
Smart three year-old Amazing Choisir (3g Choisir x Lisa's Fast Step, by Alwuhush) posted his third win when scraping home in a thrilling finish to take the Class Three event over 1650 metres by a head. View article

Smart HK Winner for Choisir

Choisir Filly Emulates Her Sire

(3rd May 2008, Australia)
Former champion sprinter Choisir captured the rich Inglis Classic Race in 2002 and featured this year as the sire of the winner when his two year-old daughter Miss Independent claimed the $350,000 feature at Randwick on Saturday. View article

Choisir Filly Emulates Her Sire

Duke of Marmalade brings more G1 glory for Danehill

(28th April 2008, Ireland)
Danehill may no longer be with us but he won’t let us forget him as he showed in Europe’s first G1 of 2008 at Longchamp on Sunday. View article

Free Handicap 1-2 for Choisir

(17th April 2008, Ireland)
Choisir started the 2008 northern hemisphere campaign as he left off last year with a Listed 1-2 on the opening day of Newmarket’s season. View article

Smart Juvenile Winner for Choisir

(9th April 2008, Australia)
Choisir is currently the leading second crop sire by individual Australian winners this season and posted yet another at Canterbury on Wednesday when the Kris Lees trained filly Silent But Deadly opened her account with an easy victory. View article

Smart Juvenile Winner for Choisir

Choisir Filly for Slipper

(6th April 2008, Australia)
Former champion sprinter Choisir is enjoying a great run at present with a slew of recent winners and the likelihood of a Golden Slipper runner in smart filly Anatomica (2f Choisir x Africaine, by Anabaa). View article

Choisir Filly for Slipper

Winners Flow for Choisir

(5th March 2008, Australia)
Former champion sprinter Choisir has had a winning run in Australia in recent weeks and added a new metropolitan winner to his tally at Sandown on Wednesday. View article

Winners Flow for Choisir

Group Two Victory for Hurried Choice

(1st March 2008, Australia)
Classy filly Hurried Choice (3f Choisir x Hustle Bustle, by Catrail) resumed form a short break to defeat the older horses with a powerful win in the Group Two AJC Challenge Stakes over 1000 metres at Randwick on Saturday. View article

Group Two Victory for Hurried Choice

Choisir’s Winning Run Continues

(23rd February 2008, Australia)
Former champion sprinter Choisir has had a great week with a hat-trick of recent winners in Anatomica, Lady Bonzer and the very impressive Canterbury winner Occurrence (3f Choisir x Happens, by Barathea). View article

Like Father, Like Son

(29th January 2008, Australia)
Danehill Dancer and his sire son Choisir both enjoyed 100% clearance of their small drafts at the 2008 NZB Premier Yearling Sale. View article

Double for David Payne

(1st January 2008, Australia)
In-form South African trainer David Payne scored a winning double at Randwick on New Year’s Day with well-backed runners Hurried Choice and Eagle Rock both finding the winner’s circle. View article

Double for David Payne

Smart Sandown Winner for Choisir

(19th December 2007, Australia)
The Lee Freedman trained Choican (3f Choisir - Deanna's Smile , by Smile) made it back-to-back wins when posting her first metropolitan success at Sandown on Wednesday. View article

Classy first-time out winner for Choisir

(21st September 2007, Ireland)
Jockey Steve Drowne described the Choisr colt Stimulation (2c Choisir-Damiana, by Thatching) as the best two-year-old he’d ridden this year after landing a high-class six-furlong Newbury maiden on his racecourse debut on Friday. View article

Third Listed winner for Choisir

(3rd September 2007, Ireland)
The unstoppable Choisir enjoyed his second stakes winner in six days - and his third in total - when Luna Nel Pozzo (2f Choisir-Luna d’Estate, by Alzao) landed the Listed Premio Repubbliche Marinare Tattersalls in Rome for trainer Luigi Riccardi. View article

More black-type success for Choisir

(27th August 2007, Ireland)
Choisir enjoyed another first-crop stakes winner at Ripon on Monday when the Richard Hannon-trained Fat Boy (2c Choisir-Gold Shift, by Night Shift) ran away with the Listed Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy by three lengths. View article

More black-type success for Choisir

Choisir continues to rack up

(20th August 2007, Ireland)
Danehill Dancer's sprinting sensation son Choisir continues to rack up the first-crop winners View article

Another Choisir Winner for Southern Cross

(16th August 2007, Australia)
Southern Cross Breeders have been in the news of late for selling the smart Bart Cummings trained Choisir filly Occurrence and tasted further success on Thursday when another of his offspring, Bourgogne, scored at Cranbourne. View article

Another Choisir Winner for Southern Cross

Choisir filly Kyniska could be G1 bound

(13th August 2007, Ireland)
Trainer Tracey Collins reported on Sunday that she is considering a tilit at the G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on September 2 with first-crop Choisir filly Kyniska (2f Choisir-Lunadine, by Bering). View article

Smart Randwick Win for Occurrence

(11th August 2007, Australia)
The Class Three event for fillies at Randwick on Saturday was taken out in devastating fashion by the Choisir filly Occurrence (3f Choisir - Happens, by Barathea). View article

Strike The Deal shines for Van Nistelrooy

(7th August 2007, America)
Ashford Stud-based Van Nistelrooy added a very smart British G2-winning juvenile to his ever-improving list of successes when Strike the Deal captured the G2 Richmond Stakes over six furlongs at Goodwood on Friday. View article

Strike The Deal shines for Van Nistelrooy

Third G1 in a row for amazing Danehill filly Fawn

(6th August 2007, Ireland)
There was only ever going to be one winner of the G1 Nassau Stakes and it was yet another G1 victory for Danehill as the remarkable Peeping Fawn kept on gamely to score by a length and a half. View article

Third G1 in a row for amazing Danehill filly Fawn

Encouraging Win for Choisir Filly

(1st August 2007, Australia)
The 1200 metre maiden for three year-old fillies at Rosehill on Wednesday attracted a smart field with victory going to the powerhouse Choisir filly Occurrence (3f Choisir - Happens, by Barathea). View article

Conditions winner for Choisir

(29th July 2007, Ireland)
Choisir was responsible for a smart Newmarket conditions event winner when Fat Boy (2c Choisir-Gold Shift by Night Shift) scored easily on Friday night. View article

First European Stakes-Winner for Choisir

(22nd July 2007, Ireland)
Globe-trotting sprinter Choisir is the leading Australian first season sire by earnings and is not far off the pace in Europe either, where he was represented by his first Northern Hemisphere stakes-winner in Ireland at the weekend. View article

First European Stakes-Winner for Choisir

Smart Win for Allervite

(21st July 2007, Australia)
Classy Choisir gelding Allervite (2g Choisir - Hit and Run, by Success Express) resumed from a spell to score an all the way win at Caulfield on Saturday in the open juvenile event over 1000 metres. View article

Eighth Aussie Winner for Choisir

(17th July 2007, Australia)
Former champion sprinter Choisir notched his eighth individual Australian winner at Kilmore on Tuesday when two year-old colt Tribal Choice rallied strongly to win the juvenile maiden over 1200 metres. View article

More impressive wins from Coolmore's first crop sires.

(2nd July 2007, Ireland)
There have been some more impressive wins from Coolmore's first crop sires in recent days. View article

Aiko Shares Top Honours

(27th June 2007, Australia)
The Royal Academy mare Aiko (7m Royal Academy - Asian Incline, by Slant) shared top price honours at the Inglis Great Southern Sale in Victoria on Wednesday when she was knocked down to North Road Bloodstock for $240,000. View article

Aiko Shares Top Honours

A Dozen NH Winners for Choisir

(19th June 2007, Australia)
It’s four years since the Paul Perry trained colt Choisir shot to international fame with a pulverizing win in the Group Two King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and then backed up to add insult to injury by winning the Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes. View article

Even Dozen for Choisir

(6th June 2007, Australia)
Champion sprinter Choisir posted his 12th individual winner in the Northern Hemisphere at Ripon in England on Tuesday when two year-old colt Roker Park scored on debut. View article

Just A Dancer is Choisir's latest star

(29th May 2007, Ireland)
The Barry Hills-trained Just A Dancer (2f Choisir-New Foundation by College Chapel) became the latest smart first-crop winner for Choisir when running away with a Leicester maiden on Tuesday by three lengths. View article

More success for unstoppable Choisir

(29th May 2007, Ireland)
Choisir’s great run of success from his first crop continued at Rome on Sunday when Rudebox (2c Choisir-Windy Gulch by Gulch) stretched his career record to two wins from two starts with victory in a six-furlong conditions event. View article

New Stakes Horse for Choisir

(26th May 2007, Australia)
Choisir featured in New Zealand on Saturday when his two year-old son Yao (2g Choisir – Seattle Swing, by Seattle Dancer) was narrowly beaten in the Listed AuRC Great Northern Foal Stakes at Ellerslie over 1400 metres. View article

Catcher filly is Ascot bound

(22nd May 2007, Ireland)
The first-crop Catcher In The Rye filly Eileen’s Violet (2f Catcher In The Rye-Brave Act by Catrail) is likely to next be seen out at Royal Ascot after landing a high-class Windsor conditions event on Monday evening. View article

Sixth Aussie Winner for Choisir

(19th May 2007, Australia)
Leading first season sire Choisir posted his sixth individual Australian winner when Urbanvue (2c Choisir – Synopsis, by Star Way) scored at Cheltenham on Saturday in the open event for juveniles over 1000 metres. View article

Choisir Awarded HTBA Champion First Season Sire

(17th May 2007, Australia)
The Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association staged their annual awards night at Scone racecourse on Wednesday evening with more than 300 people in attendance to celebrate the achievements of some outstanding thoroughbreds. View article

First season sire title for Choisir?

(16th May 2007, Ireland)
It's that exciting time of year when the freshman stallions begin to make their mark. View article

Danehill Dancer juveniles Ascot bound

(8th May 2007, Ireland)
Aidan O’Brien’s juvenile team have made a big impression this year and none more so than a pair of Danehill Dancer colts in action at the Curragh and Newmarket. View article

Smart Choisir colt wins second race

(7th May 2007, Ireland)
The first-crop Chosir colt Group Therapy (2c Choisir-Licence To Thrill by Wolfhound) seemed a contender for Royal Ascot juvenile honours when winning his second start in a fortnight at Thirsk on Saturday. View article

South African Winner for Choisir

(22nd April 2007, Australia)
Choisir has been on fire in both hemispheres with five winners so far in Europe, five in Australia and one in South Africa last Thursday. View article

Double for unstoppable Choisir

(22nd April 2007, Ireland)
There is no stopping Choisir’s first crop at present and the brilliant sprinter enjoyed a double at Naas and Nottingham on Saturday. View article

Another smart first-crop winner for Choisir

(16th April 2007, Ireland)
Choisir continued his brilliant start to the 2007 season when Another Express (2c Choisir - Chantarella by Royal Academy) made an impressive winning debut against a field of blue-blooded maidens at the Curragh. View article

Latest Choisir winner the omen tip of the day

(14th April 2007, Australia)
If ever there was an omen tip of the day it was Love’s Great, winner of the MVRC Asofia Handicap (1000m) staged as the opening event on the latest Saturday program conducted at Moonee Valley in Melbourne. View article

Two up for Choisir, Listed test next for Porto Marmay

(10th April 2007, Ireland)
Less than 48 hours after Fat Boy (2c Choisir-Gold Shift by Night Shift)'s impressive debut success at Kempton Park, Choisir appropriately had his second northern hemisphere winner in the Coolmore Choisir EBF Fillies Maiden at Cork View article

Choisir has first northern hemisphere winner

(7th April 2007, Ireland)
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GROUP WIN FOR SON OF CHOISIR

(10th March 2007, Australia)
The first 2-year-old crop of Choisir now boasts a Group Two winner following the impressive success of IncumbenT in the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) --- the colt’s second feature race victory on the bounce. View article

RICH WIN BY SON OF CHOISIR

(3rd March 2007, Australia)
The valuable 2007 Inglis Premier (1200m) was won by a member of Choisir’s first crop to race in Australia when Incumbent swooped late in the straight to take the $265,000 winning purse. View article

CHOISIR FILLY REMAINS UNBEATEN

(5th February 2007, Australia)
First-crop Choisir filly Hurried Choice (2f, Choisir-Hustle Bustle, by Catrail) maintained her unbeaten record with victory in a 2-year-old open handicap staged at Rosehill Gardens over 1100m. View article

COOLMORE DOMINATES DIAMOND BETTING

(24th January 2007, Australia)
Battle lines are being drawn and a fascinating scenario is developing around the Group One Blue Diamond. View article