‘I Am Consolidating’ – Jim Bolger Puts Famous Redmonstown Stud Up For Sale

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Legendary trainer and breeder Jim Bolger has confirmed he has put his famous Redmonstown Stud on the market as part of a consolidating of his assets. Bolger sourced the County Wexford farm back in 1990 and, under his expert management, seven Classic winners and 18 Group 1 winners have been reared there in that time. 

Some of the more famous graduates include Teofilo, Dawn Approach, Trading Leather and Poetic Flare and Bolger says anyone that is serious about breeding a top-class racehorse should consider the 84-acre farm that has a guide price of €975,000. 

“I am consolidating,” Bolger confirmed. “I have a farm in Rathvilly [in County Carlow] so I will be reducing the number of mares that I keep. They will all be looked after in Rathvilly so I won't be needing the land in Wexford [Redmonstown] anymore.”

Asked to sum up how special a farm Redmonstown has been down through the years, Bolger replied, “All you need to do is look at the list of winners that have come out of there. All of the big Group 1 and Classic winners that we have bred came from that land.

“We bought it in the early nineties. I don't think there is a farm anywhere in the world of that size that can claim the same amount of success. Obviously it works so anyone who is serious about breeding champions, that's the place to go.”

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Along with Redmonstown being put on the market, Bolger will offer over 40 yearlings under his granddaughter Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud at the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale. That move will result in the master of Coolcullen training “fewer horses” next year. 

“I will leave all of that to Clare,” Bolger explained of the selling off of his young stock. “I am going to train fewer horses next year. I don't know how many because, for one reason or another, there will be some horses who didn't get to run this year because they might have needed time or whatever. So there will be a few three-year-olds that I will keep on. But the majority of the young horses will go through a ring. I will be just keeping enough horses to keep my hand in [as a trainer] for a while.”

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