Treble Group 1-winning sprinter Perfect Power (Ire) (Ardad {Ire}–Sagely {Ire}, by Frozen Power {Ire}) has been retired to stand at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket for 2023.
Trained by Richard Fahey for Sheikh Rashid bin Dalmook Al Maktoum, the son of Britain's leading first-season sire of 2021, Ardad (Ire), first signalled his talent on the big stage when winning the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot just eight days after breaking his maiden. A glorious juvenile campaign saw him go on to win the G1 Darley Prix Morny at Deauville followed by Newmarket's G1 Middle Park S., emulating the Norfolk-Morny-Middle Park treble of Scat Daddy's sire Johannesburg in 2001.
This year, Perfect Power started his season in style with victory in the G3 Greenham S. at Newbury over seven furlongs. Finding the mile of the G1 2000 Guineas beyond his reserves of stamina, he returned to six furlongs to triumph again at Royal Ascot in the G1 Commonwealth Cup, becoming the only horse to have won three six-furlong Group 1 races at both two and three in the history of the Pattern.
Bred, like his sire, by Tally-Ho Stud, who sold for him for £110,000 at the Goffs UK Breeze-up Sale, Perfect Power comes from a stout female family which includes the Arc winner Sagamix (Fr).
Richard Brown, who bought both Perfect Power and Ardad, said, “When I saw this fellow at the breeze-ups, I couldn't believe how similar he was [to Ardad]: the same strength and power, the same fluent movement and great walk. Above all, the same bombproof, laid-back temperament. If Perfect Power stamps his stock as well as his sire, what a hot property he will be.”
Sam Bullard, Darley's Director of Stallions, said, “We are delighted Perfect Power is coming to Dalham Hall Stud. Breeders from all around Europe will have admired his performances in many of the great races for 2- and 3-year-old sprinters and it is a rare opportunity for British breeders to have access to a stallion with such precocity and speed.
“His powers of acceleration are exactly the sort of thing that makes our sport so thrilling. What's more, he's a fantastically muscular colt, and an especially good mover: he is very likely to throw commercial youngstock in his own speedy image.”
Perfect Power's fee will be announced in due course.
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