Impending Will Stand at Northwood

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Godolphin’s homebred Impending (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}–Mnemosyne {Aus}, by Encosta de Lago {Aus}), who won the G1 Stradbroke H. at Doomben during his 3-year-old year, will stand at Northwood Park in Victoria at season’s end, Darley Australia announced Thursday morning. Graduating at first asking at Rosehill, the bay scored his first group victory in the 1500m G2 Stan Fox S. after finishing third in the G1 Golden Rose S. over 1400 metres early in his sophomore season before improving to take the Stradbroke in the Southern Hemisphere fall. The James Cummings trainee currently sports a record of three wins in 14 starts and earnings of $1,288,639. He was last seen in action running third in the G1 Darley Classic at Flemington on Nov. 11.

Out of champion and MG1SW Mnemosyne, Impending is a half-brother to Group 3 winner Forget (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), as well as GSP Memorial (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) and a full to SP Epidemic (Aus). His SW second dam My Juliet (Aus) (Canny Lad {Aus}) is a half-sister to Group 2 placed Perfect Crime (Aus) (Marauding {NZ}).

“When you send a Group 1-winning mare like Mnemosyne to a champion racehorse and sire like Lonhro, you hope for a result like Impending,” said Darley’s Victoria General Manager Andy Makvi. “He’s a great athlete and a great physical specimen. If his progeny inherit his looks and his walk, yearling buyers are going to be all over them. It’s greatly in his favour that he’s the product of two colonial-bred, Danehill-free champions. And Lonhro’s dynasty is really on the move–Pierro (Aus) is showing the way, and there’s Exosphere (Aus) and Impending to follow.”

Impending will stand for A$20,000.

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