Stallion
Flying Pegasus
Overview
Bay 2002 16HH Fusaichi Pegasus(USA) - Cashier (Danehill) 2010 stud fee: $8800 inc GST
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Flying Pegasus, an impeccably bred, high class son of Fusaichi Pegasus, is a breath of fresh air for the Western Australian breeding industry. After losing so many of our top class sires in recent years, it is great, once more, to be able to stand a high quality stallion.
A group winner in his 2 and 3 year old seasons, Flying Pegasus always competed at the elite level. A winner at his first start at Warwick Farm, he then took on a smart Group 2 field in the Silver Slipper Stakes, going down narrowly to Domesday, who is now a sire for the Darley branch.
Flying Pegasus was quickly able to make amends with an impressive win in the Group 3 Kindergarten Stakes defeating the Group 1 winning filly Mnemosyne. He then contested the 2005 Golden Slipper, in which he performed admirably, losing by only 5 lengths. He was then spelled, to be brought back as a 3 year old.
He then produced his career best win. Taking on an outstanding field of three year olds in the Group 2 Royal Sovereign Stakes, he toyed with his rivals, and beat some of the finest horses of of that generation including multiple group 1 winner Racing To Win.
As a 4 year old, Flying Pegasus finished his racing career in America. He competed in three races, showing his versatility by running 3rd at Santa Anita.
It's Flying Pegasus's family tree that will excite the unexcitable. His sire Fusaichi Pegasus, himself a 4 million dollar yearling, who also had the privilege to be nicknamed Superman, is the son of the world class sire and 'sire of sires' Mr. Prospector. The billion dollar champion has also sired the likes of Kingmambo, Gulch, Gone West, Unbridled and Woodman, etc.
Fusaichi Pegasus's racing career was just as impressive. He is only one of the few favourites to win the Kentucky Derby, but it is as a sire where he has left his mark on Australian racing. He has produced brilliant Group 1 performers in Hong Kong Classic Mile (Group 1) champion Floral Pegasus and champion three year old Haradasun who won at group one level in two different countries (Doncaster Handicap and the Queen Ann Stakes), he now stands at the famous Coolmore Stud.
Flying Pegasus’s female line is equally impressive. His dam, Cashier, a Danehill mare, was a Group 2 winner. She is out of a mare by the mighty Vain. Cashier's record on the track is matched by her record as a broodmare. All her foals to have raced have had their photos taken in the winning stall. This match 'made in heaven' boasts the famous Mr. Prospector/Danehill cross. Danehill, a dynamic breed shaper in this part of the world, is the broodmare sire of over 100 individual stakes winners, 21 at the elite Group 1 level.
A group winner in his 2 and 3 year old seasons, Flying Pegasus always competed at the elite level. A winner at his first start at Warwick Farm, he then took on a smart Group 2 field in the Silver Slipper Stakes, going down narrowly to Domesday, who is now a sire for the Darley branch.
Flying Pegasus was quickly able to make amends with an impressive win in the Group 3 Kindergarten Stakes defeating the Group 1 winning filly Mnemosyne. He then contested the 2005 Golden Slipper, in which he performed admirably, losing by only 5 lengths. He was then spelled, to be brought back as a 3 year old.
He then produced his career best win. Taking on an outstanding field of three year olds in the Group 2 Royal Sovereign Stakes, he toyed with his rivals, and beat some of the finest horses of of that generation including multiple group 1 winner Racing To Win.
As a 4 year old, Flying Pegasus finished his racing career in America. He competed in three races, showing his versatility by running 3rd at Santa Anita.
It's Flying Pegasus's family tree that will excite the unexcitable. His sire Fusaichi Pegasus, himself a 4 million dollar yearling, who also had the privilege to be nicknamed Superman, is the son of the world class sire and 'sire of sires' Mr. Prospector. The billion dollar champion has also sired the likes of Kingmambo, Gulch, Gone West, Unbridled and Woodman, etc.
Fusaichi Pegasus's racing career was just as impressive. He is only one of the few favourites to win the Kentucky Derby, but it is as a sire where he has left his mark on Australian racing. He has produced brilliant Group 1 performers in Hong Kong Classic Mile (Group 1) champion Floral Pegasus and champion three year old Haradasun who won at group one level in two different countries (Doncaster Handicap and the Queen Ann Stakes), he now stands at the famous Coolmore Stud.
Flying Pegasus’s female line is equally impressive. His dam, Cashier, a Danehill mare, was a Group 2 winner. She is out of a mare by the mighty Vain. Cashier's record on the track is matched by her record as a broodmare. All her foals to have raced have had their photos taken in the winning stall. This match 'made in heaven' boasts the famous Mr. Prospector/Danehill cross. Danehill, a dynamic breed shaper in this part of the world, is the broodmare sire of over 100 individual stakes winners, 21 at the elite Group 1 level.
Flying Pegasus was heavily represented at t the recent 2010 Perth Magic Millions sale with over 34 lots sold, with an aggregate of $1,179,500 and an average of $34,691. Flying Pegasus sired three individual lots which sold in excess of $100,000, with the premier lot being an exceptional colt out of the Zabeel mare, Zender, prepared by Namerik Thoroughbreds that sold for $120,00 . Touchstone Farm was the vendor for the two other six figure lots, one of these a half brother to the Group winner Destino ($105,000 to Blue Sky Thoroughbreds) and the other a colt out of the Anabaa mare, Lady Anabell ($100,000 to Trevor Andrews). With Flying Pegasus's first crop sold as yearlings in 2010 with considerable success, he is establishing himself as a marketable prospect for the West Australian breeding industry