Myboycharlie sold to join the Turkish Jockey Club stallion roster

Myboycharlie, who sired international celebrities Euro Charline, Jameka and Sistercharlie from small fees, is the latest stallion to have been sold to continue his career for the Turkish Jockey Club.

The association has also bought Bodemeister, whose first crop contained Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming, and Super Saver, a former winner of the run for the roses whose offspring include champion sprinter Runhappy, from North America in recent months.

Myboycharlie, a 14-year-old son of Danetime, was sent out by Tommy Stack to win the Anglesey Stakes and Prix Morny and to finish third to New Approach in the Dewhurst Stakes at two.

One of the first stallion prospects bought by SF Bloodstock, he started out at the National Stud in Newmarket but has stood at Haras du Mezeray in Normandy since 2012. He never stood at a fee higher than €6,500 until this year, when he was advertised at €7,500.

Myboycharlie has outperformed the chances he was granted by supplying the likes of Euro Charline, an 800gns Tattersalls February Sale yearling purchase who won the Beverly D Stakes and was sold to Katsumi Yoshida for 750,000gns, and Sistercharlie, a €12,000 Arqana August yearling buy who ran second in the Prix de Diane and became a seven-time Grade 1 winner in the US.

His present flagbearer is Rise High, who won a Leopardstown Group 3 under the name Landfall for Ken Condon at two and has become a high-class performer at Sha Tin, where he ran a close third behind Win Bright in the Hong Kong Cup on Sunday.

Myboycharlie also shuttled to Vinery and later Bowness Stud in Australia, and supplied the southern hemisphere Group 1 winners Begood Toya Mother, Jameka and Peggy Jean.

Mezeray owner Charles-Henri de Moussac said: "The horse has been sold to the Turkish Jockey Club and will enter quarantine on Wednesday. We're very sad to lose a horse like Myboycharlie; every year he was able to produce a horse with well above average ability, as we saw on Sunday with Rise High in Hong Kong.

"But the fact is, he became more of a stallion for owner-breeders than commercial breeders. We know the stallion market is very competitive and young horses are constantly pushing the older ones, except the very established sires.”

De Moussac said Myboycharlie will be well represented in France and wider European racing after his departure to Turkey.

"The sire-line wasn't well represented in France when we first stood him,” he said. “He was an early two-year-old and won the Prix Morny, so he was interesting from a commercial point of view. However, his best horses have blossomed at three.

"It's sad that he goes now as I think he'll have around 80 two-year-olds in training next year thanks to the big season he had three years ago.

“We thank SF Bloodstock for sending us the horse as he was one of the first stallions in which they invested. We're thankful for the chance to have stood a horse like him and hope that in the future they might stand another of their stallions with us.”

Myboycharlie joins Bushranger, another son of Danetime formerly based in western Europe, on the Turkish Jockey Club's roster of stallions.

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