 | Choisir won a Group One race at Royal Ascot |
Australian sprint star Choisir has run his last race after being bought by Coolmore Stud. Choisir caused a sensation at Royal Ascot by winning both the King's Stand Stakes and the Golden Jubilee Stakes and followed up with a very creditable second in the July Cup at Newmarket last week.
The son of rising stallion star Danehill Dancer will go into quarantine in Ireland before beginning his new career shuttling back and forth between Coolmore's studs in Australia and Ireland.
He will stand at the Hunter Valley operation in New South Wales at a fee of Aus $32,500 (�14,000).
Neither Coolmore nor Choisir's former owners revealed the price paid for the colt but the Racing Post reported that the deal was thought to be worth about �10m.
"A really strongly-made colt from the sire-producing Danehill line, I think he'll prove very popular with commercial breeders, both here in Ireland and in Australia," said Coolmore's Christy Grassick.
Choisir, a Group One winner in Australia trained and part-owned by Paul Perry, arrived in Britain three weeks before Royal Ascot and astounded the racing world with his performances there.
On the opening day of the meeting he blitzed his 19 rivals with a front-running display of raw speed in the Group Two King's Stand Stakes over five furlongs, despite carrying a Group One penalty.
He then turned out again just four days later and from a tricky draw added the Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes in similar fashion, breaking the six-furlong track record in the process.
Choisir was only the third horse in history to land the Royal Ascot sprint double, and the first since Diadem back in 1920.
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