Sottsass
Chesnut201616.0½ hh (1.64 m)
Distance won over: 8f. to 12f.
Siyouni - Starlet’s Sister
Fee for 2024: €25,000
Stands at Coolmore
Record-breaking World Champion 3YO, 2020 Gr.1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe & Gr.1 Prix Ganay winner
By top French sire Siyouni & out of a Galileo mare, just like St Mark's Basilica. Half-brother to Sistercharlie, winner of 7 Gr.1’s including 6 in a row.
Smashed the track record when defeating Persian King in the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club. Previous winners include New Bay, Lope De Vega, Le Havre, Shamardal etc.
“There were a clutch of high-class 3YO colts in Europe at a variety of distances in the latest season but none was better than Sottsass” Timeform, Racehorses of 2019
Yearlings have already sold for up to €460,000 in 2024!
First crop 2YOs are in training with Ado McGuiness, Aidan O’Brien, Andre Fabre, Andrew Balding, Brad Cox, Brian Meehan, Chad Brown, Charles Hills, Charlie Johnston, Christophe Ferland, David Simcock, Dylan Cunha, Ed Dunlop, Eve Johnson Houghton, Francis-Henri Graffard, George Scott, James Horton, Jean-Claude Rouget, Julie Camacho, John & Thady Gosden, Joseph O’Brien, Mike McCarthy, Nicolas Clement, Paddy Twomey, Peter Schiergen, Ralph Beckett, Roger Varian, Simone Brogi, William Haggas, William Knight, Mitsu Nakauchida etc.
First crop winners include:
- Ultrafragola - very impressive 5½ length maiden winner on debut at Deauville for Jean-Claude Rouget, awarded a TDN Rising Star
- Veraison - decisive maiden stakes winner at Wolverhampton for Dr Richard Newland & Jamie Insol
- Safia - 4-length maiden winner on debut at Longchamp for F. Chappet
- Modern Utopia - winner at Nottingham for George Scott
- Law of Design - Novice Stakes winner at Ascot for Brian Meehan and Manton Thoroughbreds
- Toodelirious - Maiden winner at Meadowlands for Chad Brown
- Cormoran - maiden winner at Kincsem Park