Kool Kompany relocates to Clongiffen Stud for the 2022 season

Kool Kompany, the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and Railway Stakes winner by Jeremy, will stand at Robert Honner's Clongiffen Stud for 2022.

The son of the much-missed National Hunt stallion, the sire of four winners at this year's Cheltenham Festival with three of them at Grade 1 level, had been standing at Dehesa de Milagro in Spain since he retired from racing. His oldest crop are two-year-olds and he has sired a winner and three placed horses from just half a dozen or so runners.

A delighted Honner is eagerly anticipating Kool Kompany's arrival at his County Meath farm in the coming days.

"I am very, very excited about standing Kool Kompany in Ireland. The sire line is very important and where do you start with Jeremy? Unless you went and dug up Jeremy you won't get one as similar to him as Kool Kompany is," commented Horner.

The nine year-old resembles his late, lamented sire very strongly. A dark brown with a striking white face, Kool Kompany ran 30 times from the age of two until five and enjoyed a spell in the care of Chris Waller in the middle of his career.

Kool Kompany was a high-class two-year-old for Middleham Park Racing and Richard Hannon, finishing second in the Phoenix Stakes in addition to his Group 2 victories and his success in the Rochestown Stakes.

Like his father, Kool Kompany was a Group 3 winner at three with his success coming in the Craven Stakes while Jeremy won the Jersey Stakes. When he returned to Wiltshire after his sojourn in Australia, he added the Doncaster Mile to his resume and was also second in the Ben Marshall Stakes.

Treble tops: it’s a magnicent 575-1 three-timer for Ryan Moore following his victory on Kool Kompany in the Doncaster MileCredit: Edward Whitaker

"He looks like Jeremy, he raced like Jeremy, he is a Group 2 winner and Group-1 placed like Jeremy and he is one of only two sons of Jeremy at stud. Kool Kompany is already off the mark with his two-year-olds so that proves they can gallop, I have seen his foals and yearlings and they have everything you want; size, scope and a walk," Horner added.

As Horner remarked, 'jumping is in is DNA', as Kool Kompany's full brother Prussian Eagle was a winner over hurdles and placed in the Spring Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown for Charles O'Brien.

They were bred by Imelda O'Shaughnessy, while Kool Kompany sold as a foal to Harry Dutfield by Grennanstown Stud for €8,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale.

He was sold through Rosyground Stud to Peter and Ross Doyle for £40,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. His final trip through the sales ring at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale in 2017 saw him sold as a stallion prospect to Spanish interests.

He is out of the Indian Ridge mare Absolutely Cool and Indian Ridge's Group 1 National Stakes winner and Irish Derby second Definite Article enjoyed success as a National Hunt sire.

Jeremy's premature death at the age of 11 meant that he only sired two dedicated crops of National Hunt horses, with his early stars over jumps including the ill-fated Triumph Hurdle victor Our Conor all coming from more Flat-oriented crops.

Honner believes that Jeremy's ability to more than hold his own against stallions with much bigger numbers of runners bodes well for Kool Kompany's chances of success. The fact that the Danehill Dancer line gels so well with Galileo is another huge positive for the young sire.

"Jeremy had Sir Gerhard, Black Tears and Appreciate It win Grade 1 races at Cheltenham this year and Belfast Banter, who went on to win a Grade 1 at Aintree, won the County Hurdle as well.

"Other sires had a much bigger pool of soldiers to pull from and I think that it says so much about the sire line that Jeremy managed to do that from smaller numbers. He is also a perfect outcross for all those Galileo and Sadler's Wells daughters and granddaughters," he explained.

Kool Kompany will stand alongside Austrian School, the Teofilo half-brother to dual Grand National hero Tiger Roll at Clongiffen Stud. The Group 3 and Listed-placed five-year-old sired his first foals this year.

"The fee for Kool Kompany will be €2,000 which I think is very reasonable for a lot of people and I can't wait to breed some of my own mares to him."

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