FIRST SEASON SIRE PROFILE

REGALLY-BRED Beat Hollow is the son of multiple champion sire Sadler’s Wells and the 1993 Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, herself a daughter of Khalid Abdullah’s outstanding middle-distance performer Dancing Brave.

Wemyss Bight is a half-sister to several smart performers, including Superlative Stakes winner Vacamonte and the Group-placed New Abbey, while her full-sister Hope is dam of the top-class sprinter Oasis Dream – now a fellow Juddmonte stallion – and the 2002 French 1,000 Guineas winner Zenda.

Beat Hollow ran four times in Europe and won three races, including the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris, and he was third behind Sinndar and Sakhee in the Derby of 2000, his third racecourse appearance.

After a year off the track, Beat Hollow was switched to the US, first under trainer Neil Drysdale and later Bobby Frankel. As a five-year-old, he enjoyed an outstanding season, including three victories at the highest level, in the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic, the Manhattan Handicap and the Arlington Million.

The wins were complemented by placed efforts in two further Grade 1s and a Grade 2, after which he was retired to stud.

The stallion has a small first crop compared to many of his fellow freshman sires, with just 38, few of which went to the sales.

Of the 13 progeny sold at the major European yearling sales, far and away the most expensive purchase was a half-brother to Listed winner Suggestive, bought by John Gosden for 190,000gns. The second most costly was a colt out of the Warning mare Biodotis, bought in Milan for €60,000.

Among the Juddmonte home-breds whom Beat Hollow covered in his first season are Irish Oaks winner Bolas; Zafonic’s half-sister Bold Empress; Listed winners Double Crossed and Dawna; two half-sisters to Eltish;a half-sister to Tillerman; and the dam of St Leger winner Brian Boru.

Date: 07 June 2006