'I knew we had to have him' - July Cup winner Mill Stream joins Yeomanstown Stud for 2025

This year's July Cup winner Mill Stream will take up stud duties at Yeomanstown Stud for 2025. 

Trained by Jane Chapple-Hyam for Peter Harris, the colt won on his two-year-old bow at Doncaster in July 2022. He finished a half-length second to subsequent Gimcrack Stakes winner Noble Style at Newmarket after that and then placed fourth to Chaldean in the Acomb Stakes at York. 

He rose up through the ranks last year to win his first stakes race in the Listed Prix Moonlight Cloud at Deauville before a first Group score in the Prix de Meautry back at the same track. 

The Gleneagles four-year-old started off this campaign with a close third in the Abernant Stakes at Newmarket before showing a fine attitude to land the 1895 Duke Of York Stakes in a close finish. He duly improved on his Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes third with a career-best win in the July Cup, defeating Group 1 winners Vandeek, Art Power, Inisherin, Kinross and  Khaadem.

Mill Stream: July Cup winner will retire to Yeomanstown StudCredit: Edward Whitaker

Yeomanstown Stud’s Gay O’Callaghan said: "I was blown away when I went to see Mill Stream. With his physique, strength, action and quality, I knew we had to have him. The July Cup is always the most important Group 1 sprint of the year. It’s the one everybody wants. And he got it in style."

Bred by Redpender Stud and a 350,000gns purchase by Anthony Stroud from Tattersalls Book 2, Mill Stream is a half-brother to Richmond Stakes winner and Prix Morny third Asymmetric. 

Stroud added: "Mill Stream was purchased by Mr Harris at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Bred by Redpender Stud, he was an exceptionally good looking individual who was athletic, light on his feet, with a lot of quality and presence. 

"In training, Mill Stream went on to display a supreme temperament and raced consistently at the highest level. He possesses many of the key attributes necessary to become a top stallion."

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