Diane Winner Channel Retired

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This year’s G1 Prix de Diane winner Channel (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}-Love Magic {GB}, by Dansili {GB}) has been retired from racing and will join owner Samuel de Barros’s burgeoning broodmare band at his stud in Normandy, France, Jour de Galop reports.

A €18,000 Goffs Orby yearling from Pat O’Kelly’s Kilcarn Stud, Channel was pinhooked by Mayfields Stables at last year’s Arqana May Breeze Up Sale, where she was bought by Bertrand le Metayer on behalf of new owner de Barros for €70,000. Channel, who went into training with Francis Graffard, was the first horse to carry de Barros’s silks. She was second on debut to the highly regarded Secret Walk (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) at Saint-Cloud on Mar. 30, and won a maiden race at Lyon Parilly and a Chantilly conditions race before taking the Diane by a head over Commes (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) on June 16. Channel checked in seventh when pitched in against older mares in the G1 Nassau S. on Aug. 1, and is retired sound and healthy after finishing sixth in the G1 Prix Vermeille on Sept. 15.

Channel certainly has the pedigree to make an impact as part of de Barros’s broodmare band. She is out of Love Magic (GB) (Dansili {GB}), a winning daughter of G1 Cheveley Park S. winner Magical Romance (Ire) (Barathea {Ire}), who is also a half-sister to triple Oaks winner Alexandrova (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells). This is the extended family of G1 Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}), while another branch of the extended family includes the half-sisters Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), winner of the G1 Irish Oaks, and Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), victress of the G2 Ribblesdale S.

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