MARIE’S DIAMOND - ONE NOMINATION FOR THE 2024 BREEDING SEASON  

Standing at: Diamond Stud Bellewstown (IRE)

Group-winning juvenile and Group 1 placed performer Marie’s Diamond has been retired and will stand at the newly launched Diamond Stud Bellewstown for 2024. 

The son of Footstepsinthesand from the Aga Khan family of Sinndar, was a tough and high-class performer for Mark Johnston and Middleham Park Racing in the first part of his career. He ran ten times at two, winning on his debut at Leicester that April, while he followed up a Railway Stakes second with success in the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes. He was second again in the Richmond Stakes and fourth to Ten Sovereigns in the Middle Park Stakes. 

Marie’s Diamond ran a further nine times the following season, finishing fourth in the German 2,000 Guineas and third to Space Blues in the Surrey Stakes before gaining wins in a Haydock conditions contest and the Pomfret Stakes. The following year he landed Newmarket's Paradise Stakes by four and a half lengths and was also third to Circus Maximus in the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot.

The seven-year-old averaged nearly 11 runs a season over his successful career and retires the winner of seven races and £367,461 in prize-money.

Johnston said: “Marie’s Diamond was a tough and consistent performer and a pleasure to train. He has the perfect blend of precocity and progression, and showed a special constitution that is rare in the modern thoroughbred.”

A half-brother to Australian Listed winner and Group 1 placed Sikandarabad, his second dam – the granddam to Group-winning sprinter and Flying Five Stakes third Sonaiyla – is a sister to European champion Sinndar.
 

NB All successful bidders must pay for their Lots no later than close of business on 18th January 2024.

_{The Nomination will entitle the Purchaser to have one approved mare covered by the stallion in the 2024 Northern Hemisphere breeding season. The purchaser shall be entitled to a free return to the stallion for the 2025 covering season for the mare covered in 2024 or another approved mare provided that the stallion is still standing at the same farm and is available to cover mares and only if, following the end of the 2024 covering season:-a) the purchaser produces a certificate stating the mare is barren and signed by a qualified veterinary surgeon relating to an examination carried out at least 40 days from the mare's last service by the stallion, OR b) the purchaser produces a veterinary certificate to the effect that the mare either failed to give birth to a live foal or gave birth to a foal which died within 48 hours of birth other than by reason of accident.}  

Approx. Height: - Hands - Inches

Consigned by: Diamond Stud Bellewstown

Owned by: Thanks to Ciaran for donating the nomination