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At 2<\/strong><\/p>\n At 3<\/strong><\/p>\n At 4<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The winner of the G2 Mill Reef Stakes over 6f at 2YO, and runner-up in the G2 Gimcrack Stakes the start prior, RIBCHESTER’s<\/strong>\u00a03YO season featured placings in the\u00a0G1 2000 Guineas<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0G1 Sussex Stakes<\/strong>\u00a0before breaking through to land his first G1 in the\u00a0G1 Deauville Prix Jacques Le Marois<\/strong>, beating VADAMOS.\u00a0 In his final start at 3YO,\u00a0RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0tackled the older horses in the Queen Elizabeth at Ascot, going down by just half-a-length.<\/p>\n RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0started his 4YO season in Dubai running third in the G1 Meydan Dubai Turf before landing the first of his three G1’s at 4YO – the\u00a0G1 Lockinge Stakes<\/strong>\u00a0– by an impressive three-and-a-quarter lengths, and backed this up a month later at Royal Ascot in the\u00a0G1 Queen Anne winning in record time<\/strong>.\u00a0 He came up a neck short in his next start with a runner-up performance in the G1 Sussex Stakes and, landed his final G1 at Chantilly in the\u00a0G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Amongst the best to have raced in the Godolphin blue,\u00a0RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0rated 129 by Timeform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Retired to stud in 2018,\u00a0RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0covered two quality books in Australia before relocating in 2020 to replace his sire\u00a0IFFRAAJ<\/strong>, on the Haunui stallion roster.<\/p>\n RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0has created a solid impression in\u00a0the Southern Hemisphere\u00a0with two small crops of racing age progeny, headlined by multiple Stakes winning mare\u00a0RED CARD<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Group Three winner\u00a0KRAKARIB<\/strong>. In addition\u00a0RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0has been represented by black-type performing three-year-old fillies\u00a0Plymstock<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Portray<\/strong>. Ribchester is also the sire of 2024 Gr.1 Duabi Turf winner\u00a0FACTEUR CHEVAL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Yearlings from each crop by RIBCHESTER have reached six figures in the auction ring. His first crop of New Zealand-conceived foals were well received at Karaka in 2023, selling to a top price of $170,000 with the likes of Proven Thoroughbreds, Joe Pride, John Foote, Tony Gollan, Tartan Meadow, John Chalmers, Paul Preusker, Allan Sharrock, Dean Limmer and David Bourne among the yearling purchasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a0By IFFRAAJ (GB) 2001 -Dam: MUJARAH (IRE)<\/h3>\n
An elite racehorse,\u00a0RIBCHESTER<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0Europe’s Champion Miler at 3YO & 4YO<\/strong>. With\u00a0four G1 wins\u00a0at the mile<\/strong>, including the Queen Anne Stakes in record time,\u00a0RIBCHESTER’s<\/strong>\u00a016 start career saw him start 15 times at Group Level,\u00a011 of those at G1 level with a further six G1 placings added to his tally.<\/h3>\n
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Sire of\u00a019 stakes performers\u00a0<\/strong>including\u00a0nine individual stakes winners<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
Sire of\u00a0Gr.1 Dubai Turf winner<\/strong>\u00a0FACTEUR CHEVAL.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
Sire of 2yo Australian\u00a0Group Three winners\u00a0<\/strong>RED CARD\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>KRAKARIB<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
First crop of three-year-olds have just over a 60% winners\/runners strike rate and an 11% stakes horses to runners ratio<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
First European crop\u00a010.5%<\/strong>\u00a0stakes winners to runners,\u00a09%<\/strong>\u00a0stakes performers to runners<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2024 fee: $10,000 +GST<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[333,257],"product_tag":[],"wpstream_actors":[],"wpstream_category":[],"wpstream_movie_rating":[],"class_list":["post-22415","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-nz","product_cat-stallions","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n