BACHELOR DUKE

PEDIGREE|RACE RECORD|STUD RECORD

Australasia’s most ‘Eligible Bachelor’

Bachelor Duke... A Group One Classic winner descending directly from the same female family as the greatest ever Group One sire Sadler’s Wells and champion sires Nureyev, Fairy King and El Conda Pasa.

Bachelor Duke's dam Gossamer is a multiple stakes winning producer and his grand dam Lisaleen is a full sister in blood to the incomparable Nureyev – world class credentials for a stud career.

It was pedigree coupled with Bachelor Duke’s sheer-ability on the racecourse which got Rick Williams hot on his trail for The Oaks.

Said Williams 'He’s an exciting horse – truly a rare individual and his turn-of-foot in beating an exceptionally strong field to win the Irish 2000 Guineas was quite sensational.'

Given his pedigree and racing ability, Bachelor Duke could justifiably stand at any of the major Australasian stud farms. Fortunately The Oaks had an edge by already having a close working relationship with his Northern owners Ballylinch Stud, and so The Oaks secured equity in this exciting stallion prospect.

Australasian breeders have permanent access to a stallion prospect with bloodlines proven the world over.

BACHELOR DUKE...Group One Winner - Outstanding physical type – Stallions pedigree...THE COMPLETE STALLION PACKAGE

In first assessing Bachelor Duke’s stallion prospects The Oaks General Manager Rick Williams had this to say:

“His pedigree was already proven as far as stallion potential and on physical type he suited as the sort to leave two year olds that would train on at three over more ground.

He’d proved his athleticism more than once in competition against the top two and three year olds of his year.

And in viewing his race performances he never ran a bad race, though given somewhat unorthodox campaigns at both two and three though no doubt his trainer was trying his best to get a result for the colt’s owner-breeder who was terminally ill.”

With Bachelor Duke finishing the 2008/09 season as New Zealand’s Champion First Season Sire Rick Williams early predictions have thus far proved correct.

Also worth noting - is that Bachelor Duke achieved his champion first season sires title off his smallest foal crop of just 51 foals. With 29 Bachelor Duke colts and fillies still un-named at the end of their two-year-old season the trainers too believe his progeny will prove at their best as three & four year olds.

2010 Service Fee $12,000+GST

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