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Skilled Overview

Skilled was a boom 2YO – winner of the Gr1 Champagne Stakes, the Listed TL Baillieu, and second in the Gr1 AJC Sires’ Produce – who carried his form through as a 3YO where he raced solely in stakes company. Skilled ran second in the Gr1 Randwick Guineas to Ilovethiscity, and picked up several other stakes placing during that season also.

A beautifully conformed type, Skilled is one of eleven Gr1 winners for his sire Commands, whose total stud record numbers 79 stakes winners. Commands took a while to make his mark at stud, living in the shadow of his Gr1 winning brother Danewin, but once he hit his straps, his stock proved to be tough, fast types who thrilled racegoers.

With 7 crops of racing age, Skilled has produced 93 winners of 210 races including dual Gr3 winner Pecans, triple Gr3 winner and Gr1 runner-up Fiscal Fantasy, stakes placed Miss Jane and Crimson Ace plus a host of city winners. These include Lady Skills, Clever Charlotte, So Skilled, Miss Jane, Little Elsa, and the 2YO winner Cayman Dayze.

Skilled is out of group winner Dextrous, who has been brilliant as a broodmare, leaving group winners Skilled, Sidestep, and Ambidexter. This is the family founded by Champion mare Emancipation (dam of group winner and Derby second Royal Pardon, and granddam of Gr1 winners Railings, and Virage de Fortune). A prolific stakes winning family.

Skilled is beautifully conformed and breeders who want precocity at a reasonable price should seriously consider this Gr1 winner whose progeny are winners from 1000-2400m.