As Yulong boasts Panthalassa showed incredible versatility and durability with earnings of $21 million, a feat unmatched by any other sire in Australia.
“It is such a wonderful opportunity to have Panthalassa standing at Yulong,” said Vin Cox the General Manager of Yulong, “in winning international Group 1 races on both Dirt and Turf.”
“As an older horse he demonstrated an amazing versatility and soundness that he will undoubtedly pass on to his progeny, and with $21million he’s the highest earner to stand in Australia.”
“And with an outcross pedigree that should provide huge appeal for breeders, he’s a talented son of world-class Lord Kanaloa who was a winner at two, and win in every season of his career.”
Culminated in two international Group 1 races as an older horse, globe-trotting Panthalassa at six won the Group 1 Saudi against Geoglyph, Cafe Pharoah, Jun Light Bolt and Country Grammer.
The Japanese-bred performed in stakes company throughout his illustrious five year career and on the track showed toughness and consistency in winning seven of 27 starts and placed six times.
In his native Japan, Panthalassa climbed the ranks taking out the Group 3 Fukushima Kinen in emphatic style as a four-year-old, and went on to win the Group 2 Nakayama Kinen at five years.
A notable runner-up to Equinox in the Group 1 Tenno Sho the same year, it was on the world stage that Panthalassa truly excelled and at the pinnacle of his career won the Group 1 Dubai Turf.
Against an elite field of multiple Group 1 winners, he beat home a stellar field which included three-time Group 1 winner Colonel Liam plus the dual Group 1 winners Saffron Beach and Alfareeq.
Today Panthalassa’s 2013 Japan Horse of the Year and twice JRA Champion Sprinter or Miler sire Lord Kanaloa again finished last season with 157 wins to the consecutive JRA Leading Sire by Wins.
In also being Japan’s Second Leading Sire in 2023, he had First Force win the Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen, Brede Weg the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup, and Panthalassa as a third Group 1.
Again, Lord Kanaloa is season’s Second Leading Sire with Bellagio Opera taking out the Group 1 Osaka Hai, while Satono Revel and Emperor Wakeal are Group 3 winners amongst 164 winners.
A bay standing 15.3½hh, Panthalassa shuttles from Arrow Stud, Hokkaido where earlier he served over 100 mares in his first season, and is from takes-producing Montjeu mare Miss Pemberley.
In being a half-brother to five winners including the Group-placed winners Dimension and Etendard, it was Australian Eric Lucas who bred Panthalassa and raced in partnership with Hiroo Racing.
“He’ll go very well with Australian mares physically as he’ll put some quality into some of the larger, well-muscled Australian mares that could do with a little bit more quality and length of rein.”
“I wouldn’t say he’s light, but he’s not a big horse,” said Eric Lucas, “as he’s very athletic, very strong, deep stamina and had tremendous speed that the sectionals he ran was a different league.”
“Panthalassa has also got an interesting pedigree, as his sire Lord Kanaloa was a champion sprinter who got up to a mile, but he was really a six-furlong horse, and he’s out of a Montjeu mare.”
“But his next two sires on his dam line are High Estate, who was champion European 2YO in 1988, and then Thatching was Champion European Sprinter so he’s got a lot of speed as well.”
“No one knows with stallions, but there’s every chance that speed is going to stand him in good stead in Australia, as most of the staying horses that came to Australia stood at stud down here.”
