(Desert Style - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince))
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- 2005 foal, 15.35hh. Cost €18,000 as a foal and as a yearling offered in both September and December, not sold for €21,000 and then sold for €16,000. Cost 30,000gns when offerred at the Doncaster Breeze Up sales in April of his 2yo season. Ran three times as a juvenile beginning with a place in a 6f maiden in early September then winning a similar event later that month. Final run when winning a 6f, all-aged, Conditions event in November.
- Successful in five of his seven outings as a 3yo, progressing after winning a 7f Listed race in March and then a Group 3 on turf in April. Won two 7f Group 2 events in July & August and finished the year with a win in the 8f Group 1 Prix de la Foret at the 'Arc' meeting defeating Natagora. Began his 4yo season with two poor runs in 9f Grade 1s in Dubai but than an 8f Group 2 win followed at Sandown in April and the 8f Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. Closed that season with a second place to Rip Van Winkle in the Sussex Stakes. Ran eight times as a 5yo winning his first two outings by mid May in 8f Group 2 & 1 races. Only ran in Group or Grade 1 events after that including placed runs behind Makfi and Goldikova. Finished his career with a fourth place in the Breeders' Cup Mile, behind Goldikova again, and then a last of 13, beaten less than 5 lengths, in the Hong Kong Mile in December.
- Retired to the Highclere Stud, in Berkshire, in 2011 at a fee of £8,000 and still there in 2014 at the same level. 59 yearlings sold in 2013, of 70 offerred and 82 catalogued, for an Average of 31,847gns and a Median at 26,000gns. First Season Sire in 2014.
- 2005 to 2015 Wins List.