Pearl Secret , the final Byerley Turk-line stallion at stud in Britain, will relocate to Japan to face at Ookaribe Farm in a deal brokered by Eoin Sullivan.
The 2015 Temple Stakes (G2) winner had been in residence at Norton Grove Stud in Yorkshire since 2021, having begun his stallion profession below the care of Roisin Shut.
Sullivan revealed Pearl Secret had been a goal of Dr. Yuki Shimomura, proprietor of Ookaribe Farm, for some time and that the shortage of his bloodline was the catalyst for the acquisition.
He stated: “He is been eager on Pearl Secret for a while. Not solely was he an aesthetic sprinter, he is one of many only a few horses persevering with the Byerley Turk sire line. I believe he’ll show to be fairly an attention-grabbing proposition for some Japanese breeders.”
Ookaribe Farm is a comparatively new breeding operation in Japan, however Shimomura is among the nation’s main equine vets, having labored for the globally famend Shadai Farm.Join BloodHorse Each day
By means of Sullivan, his Irish agent, Ookaribe Farm earlier this 12 months bought a younger American Pharoah  filly out of 2013 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) and 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) winner Flotilla at Arqana, with Shimomura eager to broaden entry to differing bloodlines.
Pearl Secret is the prime instance of that. By Compton Place, he was bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud and Pigeon Home Stud out of the Rossini mare Our Little Secret.
His genetic worth lies primarily in his standing as one of many last stallions at stud descended from the Byerley Turk, thought of one of many three basis stallions of the Thoroughbred.
Champions of the game are descended from the charger who, legend would have, was foaled in part of the Ottoman Empire that corresponds to modern-day Serbia.
His actual origins, nevertheless, might by no means be recognized. What’s past dispute is that he was the charger of Captain Robert Byerley they usually each survived the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, a infamous and pivotal occasion within the relationship between Eire and the UK.
He’s the ancestor of Herod, who was champion sire on a number of events within the late 18th century and sired Highflyer, one other a number of champion sire and whose grandson Diomed was one of many basis stallions of the Thoroughbred in North America.
Herod can also be the ancestor of The Tetrarch, the vastly influential Ballylinch stallion of a century in the past.
Pearl Secret is a direct descendant of Marcel Boussac’s Djebel, the French-bred son of Tourbillion who has been the primary conduit for the sire line within the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Djebel, profitable within the Center Park Stakes, Two Thousand Guineas, Poule d’Essai des Poulains, and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe throughout a racing profession that coincided with World Struggle II, spent his total stallion profession at Boussac’s Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard.
His son Clarion is the grandsire of Lorenzaccio, who defeated Nijinsky within the Champion Stakes in an enormous upset.
Lorenzaccio sired main sprinter Ahonoora, who stored the road going along with his sons Indian Ridge and Inchinor, however left his mark primarily as a broodmare sire by his daughters Park Attraction and Park Specific. Ahonoora can also be the broodmare sire of Acclamation, sire of Darkish Angel , and Mehmas .
Indian Ridge is the sire of 1997 July Cup Stakes (G1) winner Compton Place, whose finest offspring aside from Pearl SecretâDeacon Blues and Borderlescottâhave been geldings.
Pearl Secret, a 20,000-guinea 2010 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale buy by Yeomanstown Stud from the Harpers’ Hampshire farm, was purchased by David Redvers on the 2011 Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale for £90,000.
Despatched into coaching with David Barron for Pearl Bloodstock, Sheikh Fahad’s preliminary racing and breeding car, he received on his sole juvenile begin in October 2011 and progressed from handicapper to listed winner in a sequence of three unbeaten runs as a 3-year-old.
Pearl Secret’s solely begin at 4 got here within the 2013 King’s Stand Stakes (G1), by which he was third to Sole Energy.
At 5, he received the Beverley Bullet Dash Stakes and was runner-up within the Temple Stakes, a race he would win as a 6-year-old, when he was additionally fourth to Goldream in each the King’s Stand Stakes and Prix de l’Abbaye (G1).
He was bought as a 7-year-old for 42,000 guineas by Salcey Forest Stud on the finish of that season.
On each official and Racing Publish Rankings, the highest-rated of his progeny is the quadruple winner Designer, from his first crop and who from a pedigree perspective may be very attention-grabbing as each her sire and broodmare sire Notnowcato are direct descendants of Ahonoora, thereby doubling up on the Byerley Turk blood that Pearl Secret’s new proprietor is so obsessed with preserving.
