Top sprinter Big Evs (Ire) will stand at Tally-Ho Stud next season. The son of Blue Point will retire following his run in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar, a race he is a general 8-1 chance for.
Big Evs is the leading sprinter of his generation, a Group 1-winning two-year-old who has beaten some of the best older horses in a series of top-class efforts this season at three for trainer Mick Appleby.
Sourced by Conor Quirke on behalf of Paul and Rachael Teasdale's RP Racing Ltd from Micky Cleere early in his juvenile year, he was a dominant winner at Royal Ascot when running out a three-length winner of the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes.
From there, he won the G3 Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood and then the G2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster before heading to Santa Anita for the Breeders' Cup, where he landed the Juvenile Turf Sprint with fellow Royal Ascot winners Valiant Force and Crimson Advocate in behind.
Roger O'Callaghan of Tally-Ho Stud commented, “We are delighted to be standing a horse with such pure speed and consistent class. He looked very special the day he won the Windsor Castle Stakes and his performances since have confirmed his place as an elite sprinter of recent years.
“Few horses have the pace to be able to challenge American sprinters on their home soil, and what he did in the Breeders' Cup last year underlined his brilliance. We are very much looking forward to standing the first son of Blue Point and to supporting him strongly at stud.”
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Big Evs returned this year to defy a penalty in the Listed Westow Stakes and later claimed the scalp of top Australian sprinter Asfoora in the G2 King George Stakes. He also ran third in the G1 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Campaigned exclusively over five furlongs, Big Evs is the first son of leading young sire Blue Point to stud. Out of a daughter of Oasis Dream (GB), he hails from a family steeped in juvenile talent as a grandson of champion Queen's Logic (ire) (Grand Lodge), whose daughter Lady Of The Desert (Rahy) and granddaughter Queen Kindly (GB) (Frankel {GB}) both won the G2 Lowther Stakes. A stud fee for Big Evs will be announced at a later date.
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