French National Hunt sire Triple Threat (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}) has been relocated to Capital Stud's Kilkenny base in Ireland and will stand under the farm's NH arm for 2024, Capital Stud announced on Friday. A fee for the three-time graded/group winner will be announced at a later date.
The 13-year-old stallion won the G3 Prix La Force and G2 Prix Eugène Adam in France and the GII Monmouth S. in the United States. He also finished second in the GI Northern Dancer Turf S. As a sire he has been represented by graded hurdle winner Sans Bruit (Fr), listed hurdle winner Rosa Kleb (Fr) and graded/listed performers AQPS Jumper Sacre (Fr) and Pacific One (Fr).
“We're always following stallions, seeing which ones are getting promising winners in Britain and Ireland, and Triple Threat appeared on our radar at the back-end of last year but he wasn't for sale,” Capital Stud's Ger O'Neill said. “We kept hearing from people about the horse, though. Donnchadh Doyle told us he had two horses by him, one a 4-year-old and the other three, and he was really impressed with them… He said we had to do all we could to get him in Ireland–we need him here.
“We made enquiries again and, with the help of John Dwan and Nicky Bertran de Balanda, managed to get a deal up and running. We flew over to France to see him, and were impressed by what we saw, but then we expected to be, as we'd already seen a lot of his stock and liked them. We knew we couldn't leave there without him, and thankfully we managed to negotiate a price.”
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