Frankel’s Chaldean Joins Cambridge Roster

Cambridge Stud has teamed up with the globally renowned Juddmonte to shuttle dual Group 1 winner Chaldean to New Zealand for the 2024 breeding season., reports NZ Racing Desk. Chaldean is a high-class son of the Juddmonte legend Frankel, who famously won all of his 14 starts including 10 at Group 1 level. Frankel has carried on in a similar vein at stud. He was the fastest stallion in history to reach 50 Group winners and was champion sire in Europe, Great Britain and Ireland in 2023. He is already the sire of 34 individual Group 1 winners among his 567 winners from 814 runners, with a total of 138 stakes winners. Chaldean was a Group 1 winner at the ages of two and three. He followed in his sire’s footsteps to win the Dewhurst Stakes (1400m) and 2000 Guineas (1600m) – a double that has been achieved only nine times in the last 50 years. Newmarket’s Dewhurst was one of three Group wins as a 2YO for Chaldean, who also won the Gr2 Champagne Stakes (1400m) at Doncaster and the Gr3 Acomb Stakes (1400m) at York. Those wins came in succession and confirmed his status as the leading 2YO in the UK in 2022. Chaldean returned to Newmarket to score an outstanding classic victory in the 2000 Guineas last May, then went on to run second behind Windsor Park Stud shuttler Paddington in the Gr1 St James’s Palace Stakes (1600m) at Royal Ascot. A five-time winner overall from 10 career starts, Chaldean is out of a Dutch Art mare who is also the dam of Group 1 placegetter Get Ahead, Group 2 winner Alkumait and two Listed performers. Chaldean will stand for a fee of $35,000 + GST and his book will be limited to 120 mares.