GLENFIDDICH

Glenfiddich’s career on the racetrack was short-lived but the team at Aquis Farm is hoping his tenure as a stallion is long and successful after announcing the Group 2 winner will join their roster for 2022.

The son of Fastnet Rock failed to make it back to the track following his three-year-old spring campaign in 2020, in which he won the Group 2 Stutt Stakes (1600m) and was placed against the older horses in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m).

As a two-year-old, he was a narrow runner-up in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) and was also placed in the Listed Blue Diamond Preview (1000m).

While he’d won two trials this year as trainer Peter Moody attempted to nurse him back from a tendon injury, connections made the decision to retired the colt last month.

Aquis’ Director of Sales, Jonathon Davies, said the farm was delighted to secure a high-class son of Fastnet Rock for their Canungra roster this spring.

“We couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to stand a stallion of this calibre,” Davies said.

“Glenfiddich is an outstanding athlete and breeders love a horse that showed so much precocity yet could mature and take it up to the best of them over a mile. And he’s by Fastnet Rock!”

“He split King’s Legacy and Ole Kirk in the Champagne and the latter went on to win a Golden Rose and Caulfield Guineas. First up at three Glenfiddich ran third behind 3-time Group 1 winner, Behemoth, and Derby winner, Mr Quickie, in the Gr.1 Memsie with a lot of good horses in his wake that day.”

Glenfiddich will stand for an introductory fee of $8800 and joins an Aquis roster that also includes the recently-retired Jonker ($16,500), as well as Pierata (TBA), Brave Smash (TBA) and Lean Mean Machine (TBA).