Coolmore Australia Brochure 2020

❝ Churchill was a good winner of the 2000 Guineas...and his two-year old achievements, including a Royal Ascot win and two Gr.1s, will add to his appeal to commercial breeders who look certain to give him strong support in an era when the fashion in the stallion market is for sires likely to produce winning two-year-olds and sprinter/milers. ~ Timeform Racehorses of 2017 [His fee] seems generous for a horse with Churchill’s pedigree and credentials and he is certainly among the better racehorses to shuttle here. “ “ CHURCHILL was a very impressive winner of two important sire-making races, the

By GALILEO - 17 sons have sired Gr.1 winners including Teofilo, Frankel etc. Full-brother to CLEMMIE - Gr.1 winner over 1200m and European Champion 2YO Filly of 2017. Out of MEOW - runner-up in the Queen Mary Stakes-Gr.2 over 1000m at Royal Ascot as a 2YO. His grandam AIRWAVE is a Gr.1-winning 2YO over 1200m and she is a half-sister to Jwala, a Gr.1 winner over 1000m.

2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 (left) and Dewhurst Stakes-Gr.1 (below), and he beat a host of

subsequent Gr.1 winners on both occasions.

Churchill’s first crop northern hemisphere foals sold for Aus $440,000 , Aus $385,000 , Aus $228,000 , Aus $220,000 , Aus $212,000 , Aus $205,000 , Aus $163,000 , Aus $163,000 , Aus $140,000 etc.

Churchill conquers Europe as two-year-old Classifications are unveiled Churchill, with a rating of 122, has today been announced as the ninth European champion two-year-old to be trained by Aidan O’Brien in the past 18 years. Mark Bird, Irish Turf Club Handicapper and delegate at the European two-year-old meeting, said: “… the progressive nature of his form allied to his obvious physical scope and impressive pedigree give rise to hope that his early career may be just the launch pad to greater success as a three-year-old. As his namesake once stated, “the price of greatness is responsibility”, so we hope and expect that Churchill will live up to his reputation in 2017”. Source: British Horseracing Authority, 24/1/17

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