Pivotal Halfway To Meeting Milestone

Wandering Eyes · July 18, 2019

Last year, Cheveley Park Stud’s Pivotal (GB) set a new record for the number of Northern Hemisphere-foaled Group 1 winners by a broodmare sire in a single year. By season’s end his daughters has amassed no fewer than 10 individual Group 1 winners. To put his achievement in context, the best previous score was seven by Danehill in 2011. True, Pivotal has struck up a very fruitful partnership with the great sire of the day Galileo (Ire), but that alone does not account for all his success, which has continued unabated this year. So far in 2019, Pivotal mares have already produced five Group 1 winners, which equals the joint-fourth best total ever and we still have half a season ahead of us.

Appropriately enough, it was Cheveley Park’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Frankel (GB) filly Veracious (GB), winner of the Falmouth S. at Newmarket, that put Pivotal one ahead of Galileo in the 2019 race. Moreover, all things being equal we can probably expect Raffle Prize (Ire), by Slade Power (Ire) out of Pivotal mare Summer Fete (Ire), to join the ranks of Group 1 winners in the near future, following her impressive victories in the G2 Queen Mary S. and G2 Duchess of Cambridge S. Just to prove that Pivotal’s prowess as a broodmare sire doesn’t all rest with Galileo, his daughters are also responsible for Defoe (Ire), by Dalakhani (Ire), a Group 1 winner over 12 furlongs, and Advertise (GB), a Group 1 winner over six furlongs by Showcasing (GB). Last year Dutch Art (GB) (Mab’s Cross {GB}), Fastnet Rock (Aus) (One Master {GB}), Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) (Glorious Empire {Ire}) and King Kamehameha (Jpn) (Mikki Rocket {Jpn}) also had Group 1 winners from Pivotal mares.