Turtle Bowl off to stud next year
by Rachel Pagones
GROUP 1 winner Turtle Bowl, third behind Manduro in the Prix Jacques le Marois this month, will enter stud at Aliette and Gilles Forien's Haras de la Reboursiere et de Montaigu next year.
Trained by Francois Rohaut for Berend van Dalfsen, the five-year-old son of Dyhim Diamond scored his biggest victory to date in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat two years ago. He has been third at the top level in each of his last three starts, including a close finish behind Ramonti in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, and is likely to contest the Group 1 Prix du Moulin in September. He could bow out in either the Breeders' Cup Mile in October or the Hong Kong Mile in December.
Turtle Bowl will be a welcome addition to Archange d'Or, Martaline, and Victory Note at la Reboursiere, which lost both leading veteran sire Kendor and the promising young Starborough this year.
Out of the Top Ville mare Clara Bow, he is a half-brother to the Galileo colt who sold for €1.4m at the Deauville sale on Friday. He is also a half-brother to the 2002 Prix d'Astarte winner and Grade 1-placed Turtle Bow, whose first foal, a filly by Diesis, was bought at Arqana last summer by Shadwell France for €600,000.
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