Palace Pier, Pinatubo & Victor Ludorum are confirmed as new additions to roster in 2022

Darley has announced thet Palace Pier (Kingman), Pinatubo (Shamardal) and Victor Ludorum (Shamardal) will shuttle to Australia for the 2022 breeding season, with Palace Pier and Pinatubo both standing for $55,000 (inc GST) while Victor Ludorum will stand for $24,750 (inc GST). 

A world champion miler and five-time Group 1 winner, Palace Pier retired from racing having won nine of his 11 career starts. He was bought for 600,000gns by John Golden at the 2018 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2018 and was unbeaten in two career starts as a juvenile. His Group 1 victories came in the Prix Jacques le Marois (Gr 1, 1600m) and St James's Palace Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at three before retaining his Prix Jacques le Marois crown and adding the Queen Anne Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) and Lockinge Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) last year as a four-year-old.

Champion jockey, Frankie Dettori said: "He's one of the best milers I've ever ridden, and I've ridden a few."

Palace Pier is currently covering his first book of mares at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket for a fee of £55,000. 

He will be available on a limited book at Kelvinside this year and will be joined at the farm by unbeaten champion two-year-old Pinatubo. From the family of leading European sire Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), Pinatubo started six times at two with his best victories coming in the Dewhurst Stakes (Gr 1, 7f) and National Stakes (Gr 1, 7f), while he also set a juvenile course record at Royal Ascot in the Chesham Stakes (7f). As a three-year-old the son of Shamardal (Giant's Causeway) won the Prix Jean Prat (Gr 1, 1400m) and placed three times at Group 1 level. 

"As an individual, he was a horse who had a great constitution," trainer Charlie Appleby said. "He was mentally very laidback but physically very strong. I can see how Pinatubo will fit into the Australian industry. He had an abundance of natural speed, as well as the strength to be a precocious two-year-old."

Palace Pier and Pinatubo will be joined at Kelvinside by another son of Shamardal in Victor Ludorum. He raced over three seasons, capturing the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (Gr 1, 1600m) at two, the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (Gr 1, 1600m), breaking the track record, in his Classic year while he also won the Prix Messier (Gr 3, 1600m) and placed third in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Gr 1, 1600m) as a four-year-old.