China Horse Club's Jet Setting (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}), the winner of last year's G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas, has been retired from racing and will be bred to Le Havre (Ire) this year.
“Jet Setting will be bred to Le Havre,” China Horse Club representative Mick Flanagan told the TDN. “China Horse Club purchased a share in the stallion recently and now we will breed this Classic-winning filly to a multiple Classic-producing sire. Whether it's Europe, the U.S. or Australia, China Horse Club is committed to supporting its stallion interests with high-quality broodmares and fillies off the track.”
China Horse Club purchased a share in Le Havre for €355,000 on Arqana Online in November.
A €7,000 purchase from the Goffs November Sale as a foal in 2013, Jet Setting went winless in four outings during the first part of her juvenile campaign for trainer Richard Hannon before being culled at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale. Kilbride Equine picked her up for 12,000gns, and Jet Setting–under the new ownership of Equinegrowthpartners and trained by Adrian Keatley–picked up black-type next out when third behind eventual dual Classic winner La Cressonniere (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) in Chantilly's Listed Prix Herod. Kicking off her 3-year-old campaign with a pair of wins in a Cork maiden and Leopardstown's G3 1000 Guineas Trial, Jet Setting was well beaten in ninth behind Minding (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Qipco 1000 Guineas, but turned the tables on that rival three weeks later when landing the Irish equivalent by a head under Shane Foley.
Consigned to the Goffs London Sale thereafter, Jet Setting was bought by China Horse Club for £1.3-million. She finished sixth in Royal Ascot's G1 Coronation S. later that week and filled the same position in the G1 Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S. before dropping down in class to win the G3 Coolmore Concorde S. by 6 1/2 lengths. She closed out her career with an 11th-place finish behind Minding in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot.
Keatley said, “I can't complain about what we got out of her, of course I'd love to have been able to train her again because I had a strong feeling she could have been a nice horse for something like the [G1] Lockinge S. at Newbury, but she's going to stud and that's what she was bought for by the China Horse Club.”
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