The recent announcement from Windsor Park Stud that exciting young sire Pour Moi (IRE) will return to their Cambridge farm for the 2016 breeding season was enhanced with his New Zealand bred two-year-old son Sacred Elixir brilliantly winning the $600,000 Group I JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m) at Eagle Farm last Saturday.
Sacred Elixir's performance did not go unnoticed by renowned studmaster Sir Patrick Hogan who commented:
"To me that two-year-old (Sacred Elixir)
has quality stayer written all over him. With the remarkable season that
Tavistock has had and now another son of Montjeu in Pour Moi producing such a
smart individual, I believe both stallions have a major role to play in shaping
our future staying progeny. "
Sacred Elixir is from the first Southern Hemisphere crop of his Gr.1 Epsom Derby winning sire Pour Moi, who now leads the First Season Sire's table in Australia.
Windsor Park has enjoyed great success standing Derby winning stallions like Pour Moi's sire Montjeu as well as High Chaparral, who was also an English Derby winner bred on the same Sadler's Wells/Darshaan cross as Pour Moi.
Pour Moi's yearlings sold to $360,000 at Karaka earlier this year and his 2016 service fee has been set at $17,500 plus GST.
