NEWS
Coolmore swaps Giant's Causeway for Spinning World
Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2001
In an effort to fill an opening left by the transfer of second-year sire Giant's Causeway to Kentucky, Coolmore Stud will move veteran dual hemisphere stallion and Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) winner Spinning World to its main operation near Fethard, County Kildare, Ireland. Coolmore will be the fourth different stud farm to stand the eight-year-old son of Nureyev since his retirement at the end of the 1997 season. He will stand his first season in Ireland for approximately $31,423 (27,500 Irish punts).
Spinning World also has stood Southern Hemisphere seasons at Coolmore Australia and New Zealand's Windsor Park Stud and Northern Hemisphere seasons at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, and on a one-year lease in 2000 at the East Stud near Hokkaido, Japan. He stood the 2001 season for $35,000.
Spinning World is off to a quick start with his stud career and already has been represented by 11 winners from 34 starters, including French Group 3 winner Quad's Melody and German stakes winner Chan Chan.
Quad's Melody, an Irish-bred filly out of the Devil's Bag mare Fab's Melody, has won two of three career starts, including the Prix D'Aumale (Fr-G3) at Chantilly, and earned $37,828.
Ten of Spinning World's winners have come outside the United States—including Tendulkar, who was third in the Darley Dewhurst Stakes (Eng-G1), and Temple of Artemis, second in the Killavullan Stakes (Ire-G3). Spinning World, who has progeny earnings of $278,657 through Tuesday, has sired three stakes-placed runners.
Spinning World will be one of five new stallions next season at Coolmore, which relocated multiple Group 1 winner and 2000 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) runner-up Giant's Causeway to Ashford Stud for the 2002 season.
Spinning World was one of the country's most popular sires at the world's boutique yearling markets, with 48 sold for an average of $169,100. That group included Extreme Pleasure, a filly out of the Slew o' Gold mare Golden Darling purchased by Prince Ahmed bin Salman's The Thoroughbred Corp. for $600,000 at the 2000 Keeneland July selected yearling sale. Overall, 82 yearlings by Spinning World have been sold for an average of $146,166.
Campaigned by Stavros Niarchos, Spinning World won eight of 14 career starts and earned $1,734,477. Highweighted at three on the Irish Free Handicap from seven to 9 ½ furlongs, Spinning World won the 1996 Irish Two Thousand Guineas (Ire-G1) and Prix du Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard-Jacques Le Marois (Fr-G1), and finished second in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) at Woodbine and the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand Guineas) (Fr-G1).
Spinning World won four of five starts as a four-year-old in 1997, including the Breeders' Cup Mile at Hollywood Park, in which he equaled the course record with a time of 1:32.77. He also won the Jacques Le Marois, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Fr-G1), and Prix du Muguet (Fr-G2) and was the highweighted older horse on the European and French Free Handicaps from seven to 9 ½ furlongs.—Tom Law
