Multiple Top-Level Winner Bolshoi Ballet Moves to Blackrath Stud

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Bolshoi Ballet has departed the Coolmore National Hunt stallion ranks and will stand at Blackrath Stud for the 2026 breeding season.

Trained by Aidan O'Brien for the Coolmore partners, Bolshoi Ballet was sent off a short-priced favourite for the 2021 Derby after emulating his sire, Galileo, with back-to-back wins at Leopardstown in the G3 Ballysax Stakes and G3 Derby Trial Stakes. Below form when finishing seventh at Epsom, he bounced back on his next start to win the GI Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes. He also won the GI Sword Dancer Stakes at Saratoga at five and retired afterwards as the winner of five of his 17 career starts and over $1.3 million in prize-money.

He moves to Blackrath Stud following two seasons at Coolmore's The Beeches Stud, where he was introduced at a fee of €3,000 in 2024.

“We're delighted to announce Bolshoi Ballet as a new stallion at Blackrath Stud,” read a statement posted by the County Kildare farm on social media. “By Galileo and a double Group 1 winner, he brings elite class and pedigree to our roster.”

Bolshoi Ballet is joined by three other stallions on the Blackrath roster for 2026, namely Eliot, Policy Maker and Saddex.

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