The multiple group winner and St Leger runner-up Arrest (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) will stand at the Flood family's Boardsmill Stud in Ireland from 2025.
A highly consistent individual who won the G3 Chester Vase and G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes for Juddmonte, the four-year-old finished in the top three in 10 of his 13 starts, including when second to Continuous (Jpn) at Doncaster in the final Classic of last season. The John and Thady Gosden-trained colt was also runner-up at two in the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.
“We are delighted to have acquired Arrest from Juddmonte Farms, a farm we have had success buying from in the past,” said John Flood of Boardsmill Stud. “He was a high-class racehorse and is a gorgeous-looking individual, standing 16.2hh with a wonderfully athletic walk. His good looks are borne out by the fact that he was purchased as a foal by Juddmonte for €440,000.”
He added, “His pedigree contains a nice blend of speed and stamina on both his sire and dam's side. He is a son of the champion Frankel and his dam, who has produced three stakes performers to date, descends from the highly influential Roberto and Top Ville lines.”
Arrest was bred by Mariann Klay and Des Leadon of Swordlestown Little and is a half-brother to the Hong Kong Group 3 winner Dinozzo (Ire) (Lilbourne Lad {Ire}) and the 11-time winner and Listed-placed Spring Loaded (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}). Another half-brother, the two-year-old Detain (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), was bought for €340,000 and won his first two starts in the Juddmonte silks this season.
Juddmonte's racing manager Barry Mahon said, “Arrest is a very good-looking individual with a wonderful temperament and was a very sound and clean-winded racehorse. We have retained some breeding rights in him and look forward to the career of his half-brother Detain, who was impressive winning his first two starts at two for us this year.”
A fee for Arrest will be announced at a later date.
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