Delacroix Retirement Rubber-Stamped, As He Heads To Coolmore Stud

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Dual Group 1 winner Delacroix has been retired from racing and will stand at Coolmore Stud in Ireland next season. A stud fee for the TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard, will be revealed in due course.

A winner of the G3 Autumn Stakes at two and only a nose away from also being a juvenile Group 1 winner in the Futurity Stakes, the son of $8-million dual-champion racemare Tepin (Bernstein) went to another level this year at three for Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners.

Both the G3 Ballysax Stakes and G3 Derby Trial Stakes went his way at Leopardstown, and the G1 Derby participant was back to his brilliant best in the G1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in July. Second in the G1 Juddmonte International Stakes a month later, he rebounded in the G1 Irish Champion in September. His career finale was a close fourth in the G1 Champion Stakes at Ascot this past Saturday.

“Delacroix is a gorgeous horse, undoubtedly the best-looking son of Dubawi we've ever seen,” said Coolmore's David O'Loughlin. “He's out of one of America's greatest racemares of recent times and was an exceptionally sound, tough and talented racehorse with a lethal turn of foot. Dubawi's sons like Night of Thunder, Too Darn Hot, Zarak and New Bay are all excelling at stud and Delacroix was higher-rated and ran more times than any of them. His pedigree is free of Sadler's Wells, Galileo, Danehill and Green Desert so he will be a very important outcross for Coolmore and many of our clients.”

A half-brother to fellow top-flight winner Grateful (Galileo), Delacroix is the best representative of his late dam, who won the G1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot and numerous Grade I events in the U.S.

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