Irish St Leger winner Sans Frontieres to relocate to Vauterhill Stud

Sans Frontieres, the 2010 Irish St Leger winner who stood his first seven seasons at the Beeches Stud, will relocate to Graham Heal's Vauterhill Stud for the 2020 breeding season after a deal was brokered by Richard Venn Bloodstock.

The 14-year-old son of Galileo will replace the Sadler's Wells stallion Linda's Lad on the roster following his transfer to Yorton Farm Stud.

Sans Frontieres, who will stand alongside Cannock Chase and Dream Eater at Vauterhill, is the sire of the Venetia Williams-trained Easy As That, a five-year-old who entered plenty of notebooks when making an impressive winning debut at Ffos Las in December for owners Kate and Andrew Brooks.

"We were looking for a replacement for Linda's Lad and Richard Venn thought he would be a decent replacement, and with a bit of luck he will be," said Heal.

"I was very impressed by Easy As That the other day, and Sans Frontieres should do quite well down here in the West Country."

Sans Frontieres was raced by Sir Robert Ogden with trainer Jeremy Noseda, and while he opened his account as early as September of his two-year-old season, he showed his best form at four, when stringing together three Pattern wins culminating in success in the Irish St Leger.

He also struck in the Group 2 Princess of Wales's Stakes at the Newmarket July meeting and the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury.

Bred by the Lavington Stud out of the Listed-placed Shirley Heights mare Llia, Sans Frontieres is closely related to the Chester Vase scorer Hans Holbein and a half-brother to the dual Listed winner Kootenay, while his 450,000gns yearling price tag pays testament to his good looks.

A fee for Sans Frontieres will be announced at a later date.

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