Multiple group winner Speak In Colours (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}–Maglietta Fina {Ire}, by Verglas {Ire}) has been retired and will stand at Haras des Fontaines for €1,900 next year. The Jour de Galop reported the news on Saturday.
Bred by Scuderia Archi Romani, the half-brother to G1 Nassau S. heroine Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) won a total of six stakes over a six-year career, and was also third in the 2019 G1 Prix de la Foret. He won the G3 Phoenix Sprint S. in 2018, the G3 Renaissance S. in 2019, and the G2 Greenlands S. and G3 Ballycorus S., both in 2020. After changing hands for 22,000gns out of the 2021 Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale, he made several more starts. The grey 8-year-old's record stands at 36-8-5-4 and $512,719 in earnings.
His dam won four times in Italy and England, and is from the family of stakes winners Pie In Your Eye (Spend A Buck), Pie's Lil Brother (Roar) and Monsagem (Nureyev). The last-named horse was third in the G1 Prix Jean Prat.
Another on the move to Fontaines is listed hero Master's Spirit (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}–Lavayssiere, by Sicyos). Produced by Bouzid Chehboub and Kamel Chehboub's breeding programme, the four-time group-placed 12-year-old will stand for €1,600 as a dual purpose sire. His eldest foals will be 3-year-olds of 2024.
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