Siskin's half-sister Talacre gives Flintshire a breakthrough winner at stud

Five-time Group/Grade 1 winner Flintshire got his stallion career off the mark when the regally bred Talacre struck at the fourth time of asking at Gowran on Saturday.

The Juddmonte homebred is out of the winning Oasis Dream mare Bird Flown, and is therefore a half-sister to this year's Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Siskin, who also won the Phoenix Stakes as a juvenile.

Like her year-older half-brother, the two-year-old Talacre is trained by Ger Lyons, who has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Khalid Abdullah's operation.

Bird Flown is herself a half-sister to the Listed winner Barsanti, who placed in a further ten black type contests. Her half-sister, Rising Tornado, produced the Ensign Stakes scorer Close Hatches, who in turn is the dam of Juddmonte's three-time Grade 2 winner Tacitus.

Flintshire is another homebred who raced in the familiar green and pink Juddmonte silks, winning the likes of the Grand Prix de Paris, Sword Dancer Stakes and the Hong Kong Vase when trained by Andre Fabre. He also finished second behind Treve and Golden Horn in two Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes.

The son of Dansili then switched to Chad Brown's US stables in 2016, where he notched up a further two top-level successes in the Manhattan and Sword Dancer Stakes, before ending his career with a valiant second to the globe-trotting Highland Reel in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita in 2016.

A brother to the stakes winner Dance Moves, Flintshire stands at Hill 'N' Dale Farms in Lexington, Kentucky at a fee of $15,000, where he is joined by the likes of Curlin, Good Magic and Kitten's Joy.

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