Coolmore Ireland Brochure 2022

The Best Clients in the World

In addition to the impressive broodmare band owned by Coolmore partners John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Westerberg, many of the world’s other leading players, with long histories in the stallion business, choose to board mares at Coolmore

The Niarchos Family Stavros Niarchos won the Middle Park Stakes with Pipe of Peace in 1956 and after a lengthy hiatus he returned to the business in the 1970s most notably with the brilliant Nureyev who went on to enjoy a sensational stud career initially at his owner’s Haras de Fresney le Buffard in Normany and latterly at Walmac International in Kentucky. Nureyev’s fi nest daughter both on the racecourse and in the paddocks was the mighty Miesque. She produced the outstanding sire Kingmambo and the family has been carefully nurtured over the years by Stavros’s daughter Maria and granddaughter Electra. Recent Group 1-winning sisters Alpha Centauri, Alpine Star and Discoveries have Miesque as their third dam. The Niarchos family was recently honoured with the 2021 Longines and IFHA International award of merit for their lifelong contribution to racing. Peter Brant, White Birch Farm Peter Brant was the breeder of Michael Tabor’s Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch and also bred and raced both his sire Gulch and dam Line of Thunder. He also owned the brilliant Triptych and was responsible for bringing legendary stallion Mr. Prospector to Claiborne Farm having begun his stud career in Florida. More recently he raced Sottsass and is now supporting him with a large number of top-notch mares. Brant is an accomplished polo player and was at one time the highest-ranked amateur player in the U.S.

Maria Niarchos and Stavros Niarchos , pictured at the 1986 Epsom Derby

Peter Brant , pictured with Michel Zerolo of Oceanic Bloodstock , yearling purchaser of Sottsass

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