Advertise Retired To National Stud

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Three-time Group 1-winning sprinter Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}-Furbelow {GB}, by Pivotal {GB}) has been retired from racing and will enter at the National Stud in Newmarket next year.

Bred by Cheveley Park Stud and raced by Phoenix Thoroughbred with trainer Martyn Meade, Advertise broke his maiden at first asking last May and was second to Calyx (GB) (Kingman {GB}) in the G2 Coventry S. four weeks later. He followed up with victories in the G2 July S. and G1 Phoenix S. and was second to Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G1 Phoenix S. to round out the year. Kept to sprint trips after a bid in the G1 2000 Guineas, Advertise capitalized with a win in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot in race record time and, after finishing second in the G1 July Cup, won the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest over elders, becoming only the second 3-year-old of the past 18 years to do so. Advertise defeated 14 individual Group 1 winners through his career and is rated 126 by Timeform.

“Advertise was a joy to have in the yard,” said Martyn Meade. “To have a horse like him [with that] combination of speed, soundness and consistency is very rare. I very much look forward to seeing his progeny on the track in years to come and I hope they inherit some of his father’s star qualities.”

Amer Abdulaziz, chief executive officer of Phoenix Thoroughbred, added, “As a Group 1 winner at two and three, Advertise has given us some brilliant days. His win in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot this year was a particularly special and happy day. We are really excited to stand him as a stallion at the National Stud alongside Aclaim and we will be supporting his progeny in the sales ring.”

National Stud Director Tim Lane said, “We are hugely excited to be given the opportunity to stand Advertise at the National Stud. He was an exceptional racehorse with the physical attributes to match. His sire, Showcasing is continuously proving himself to be a world-class stallion and we are privileged to

be offering breeders his highest-rated son. We are extremely grateful to Martyn Meade, Phoenix Thoroughbreds, Amer Abdulaziz and Dermot Farrington for entrusting us with Advertise for his stud career.”

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