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00:00Ashford Studd's Practical Joke continues his ascent as a top sire for Coolmore, and
00:07this year the farm will add one of his Grade 1 winning sons to their roster in domestic
00:11product.
00:17We've been obviously delighted to welcome domestic product, a highly credentialed son
00:23of Practical Joke, to our stallion roster.
00:25It's always very gratifying when you stand a stallion and then you're able to bring one
00:29of his own sons to studd, and Practical Joke himself is off to a wonderful start in his
00:34own studd career.
00:35He's already sired four Grade 1 winners, the likes of Ways and Means, Practical Move, Chocolate
00:40Gelato, and of course our own domestic product.
00:43Chad was always very high on this horse, and we'd been following him from very early on,
00:48especially after he broke his maiden in October.
00:51He's a horse that obviously won the Tampa Bay Derby and made a start for Chad in the
00:55Kentucky Derby.
00:56He was a Derby horse through and through, and one that he really believed in.
00:59So he's been very high on the horse from very early on in his career, and then once we saw
01:04him a few times, we got to see him at Saratoga a few times, we were absolutely blown away
01:08by his physique.
01:09He's 16.2, almost black, a wonderful looking horse, a great mover, and then when he put
01:14it all together at Saratoga and won the Allen Jerkins in a very fast time, beating a really
01:18good field, the best thing about him is his speed.
01:22I think he was tactical in the way he could do it.
01:25He could put himself in any position in a race, and he was dangerous from any position
01:29on the racetrack.
01:30He should be a very easy horse to breed to, because he will suit, and Practical Joke does
01:33himself, suit the vast majority of American bloodlines.
01:37He's a horse that has something for everyone.
01:39He's got the look, he's got the speed, he's got the balance, he's got a great pedigree
01:43behind him, and one who should be very popular here in the stallion roster.
01:52We're so immensely proud of Sierra Leone.
01:55She's taken not only us, but the ownership group, including the Coolmore partners, Peter
01:59Brandt and Brooke Smith, on such a great ride over the last year and a half.
02:04He's a horse that really put it all together on arguably the biggest day in the calendar
02:09when he took on all the horses and beat a stellar field in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
02:14So a horse that we're delighted to have here for the moment.
02:17He'll have the next month or six weeks off, and then hopefully we'll be able to take him
02:22on a world tour next year and take on some of the best in the world and really prove
02:26to all the fans that this horse is for real.