Just days after the anniversary of his watershed win, Daumier has been retired to stud.
The son of Epaulette, who won last year’s Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), will stand at Twin Hills Stud in New South Wales.
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained colt won the Blue Diamond at just his third start, having won the Listed Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) on debut, and Twin Hills Stud’s Olly Tait said he had the attributes to follow in the footsteps of several other successful Diamond-winning stallions.
“We are thrilled that Daumier is coming to Twin Hills,” Tait said.
“Precocious is the most overused word in the bloodstock dictionary, but Daumier was exactly that. He was just a brilliant two-year-old, arguably the best two-year-old colt of his year.
“The Blue Diamond has produced stallions such as Redoute’s Choice, Extreme Choice and more recently Written By. Like them, Daumier possessed two-year-old speed of the highest class”.
Daumier was the only Group 1-winning two-year-old colt of his generation with the three legs of the Sydney triple crown shared by Fireburn and She’s Extreme with Sheeza Belter taking out the J J Atkins in Brisbane.
Daumier finished fourth in both the Golden Slipper and ATC Sires’ following his Blue Diamond success and was unplaced in three runs as a three-year-old.
Godolphin, which bred and raced Daumier, retains an interest in Daumier and will be supporting him with part of its broodmare band.
“We are very proud to have bred and raced Daumier and are very much looking forward to his stallion career at Twin Hills,” Godolphin’s Vin Cox said.
“He is the product, on both sides of his pedigree, of decades of investment and hard work by the teams at Woodlands and Godolphin.
“He was a brilliant two-year-old and we will be supporting him with some lovely mares”.
Daumier will join a Twin Hills roster that includes Smart Missile, Peltzer, Denman, Hallowed Crown and Odyssey Moon.
