Frankel’s dam dies after foaling complications
Juddmonte Farm’s blue-hen producer Kind (Danehill), the dam of unbeaten champion Frankel (Galileo) and fellow elite level winner Noble Mission (Galileo) - has died due to complications after foaling a colt by Kingman (Invincible Spirit) a few days ago.
The daughter of Danehill (Danzig) was a six-time winner for Roger Charlton and the late Khalid Abdullah, landing the Flower of Scotland (Listed, 5f) and Kilvington Stakes (Listed, 6f) before taking up broodmare duties in 2006.
Kind’s first foal was Group 3 winner Bullet Train (Sadler’s Wells), who previously stood in Kentucky, is now a resident at Woodfield Farm Stud in County Waterford and has sired 144 individual winners headed by this season’s Herbert Power Stakes (Gr 2, 2400m) winner Chapada and the Listed victor Whiskey Train.
Ultimately, the mare is best known for being the dam of unbeaten champion Frankel, who landed 14 starts, nine of them at Group 1 level, before retiring to stand at Banstead Manor Stud in 2013.
Frankel as good a stallion as he was a racehorse, siring 60 stakes winners headed by 12 Group 1 winners, including Mirage Dancer who won the Metropolitan Handicap (Gr 1, 2400m) in 2020 and reached 40 individual Group winners in the fastest time by any European stallion in history last year.
Kind's third mating - and second to Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) - produced another top-class performer in Noble Mission. Initially trained by Cecil, for whom he won the Gordon Stakes (Gr 3, 1m4f) at Goodwood in 2012, he provided Lady Cecil with a victory in the 2014 Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 1m2f), following on from Frankel's triumph two years previously.
Among the star producer's other offspring are dual Listed winner Joyeuse (Oasis Dream), while three-time winning Morpheus (Oasis Dream) and Proconsul, a brother to Frankel, have also both embarked upon stallion careers.
Kind has a sister to Frankel and Noble Mission in training with John Gosden, the three-year-old Chiasma, although she slipped to Galileo (2014, 2015) and Kingman (2016 and 2017) in recent years. She was barren in 2019 and slipped to Galileo last year, while she was due to revisit Kingman this term.
Juddmonte's UK stud director Simon Mockridge said: "I cannot thank the Rossdales and Juddmonte team enough for the tireless care they have given Kind. To many she will rightfully always be best remembered as the dam of Frankel and Noble Mission, to us at Juddmonte she will always be Kind by name and Kind by nature.”
