Son of First Defence to stand for ¥3,500,000 at Shadai Stallion Station
This season’s Irish 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) winner Siskin (First Defence) will stand at the Shadai Stallion Station for an introductory fee of ¥3,500,000 (approx $45,610) in 2021.
Owned and bred by Khalid Abdullah, it was announced in June that breeding rights in the son of First Defence (Unbridled's Song) had been sold and it was announced recently that he would be joining the Japanese powerhouses roster.
The colt entered his Classic year with a perfect record which included victories in the Phoenix Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) and Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) and after taking out the Irish Classic, the colt finished a good third in the Sussex Stakes (Gr 1, 1m), while he also finished fourth in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Gr 1, 1600m). He retires the winner of five of his eight career starts, which saw him earn £449,911 in career prize-money.
Siskin is from a very deep Juddmonte Farms family and is out of the winning Oasis Dream (Green Desert) mare Bird Flown, whose half-sister is Listed-winning Lockdown - the colt’s three-quarter sister.
Bird Flown herself is a half-sister to Rising Tornado (Storm Cat), who in turn produced multiple Grade 1 winner Close Hatches (First Defence) and Grade 2 scorer Tacitus (Tapit), while she also counts Listed winner Barsanti (Champs Elysees) as one of her half-siblings.
The colt’s third dam is Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Monroe (Sir Ivor) - the dam of dual Group 1 winner and successful sire Xaar (Zafonic) and Group 3 scorer Diese (Diesis), who in turn proved herself a successful producer, being the dam of Grade 1 winner Senure (Nureyev), Grade 3 winner Speak In Passing (Danzig) and Listed winner Dexterity (Kingmambo). Diese is also the grandam of Permit (Dansili), who landed the Chairman's Handicap (Gr 2, 2600m) at Randwick in 2012.
Further back this is the same family as Grade 1 winner and successful sire Cityscape (Selkirk) and Group 2 winner Bated Breath (Dansili) - who now stands at Juddmonte Farms’ Banstead Manor in Newmarket, while last year’s St Leger Stakes (Gr 1, 1m6.5f) winner Logician (Frankel) also features on the page.
