Lovely Jubly (Aus) (Lion Hunter {Aus}), the dam of champion sprinter Chautauqua (Aus) (Encosta de Lago {Aus}), will visit European 2-year-old champion Air Force Blue (War Front) during his first shuttle trip to Coolmore Australia later this year.
Edwina Throsby, whose family's Woodbury Pty Ltd owns Lovely Jubly, said, “The mating was recommended to us by our advisors and having done our research into Air Force Blue, we were more than happy to go with him. He was clearly an exceptionally fast, precocious horse and the more I read about him, the more I liked him.”
The 6-year-old gelding Chautauqua recorded his sixth Group 1 win with his third straight score in the G1 TJ Smith S. at The Championships on Apr. 2, where he came from last to notch one of the most impressive wins at the meeting.
Throsby added, “We are having incredible fun with Chautauqua. He is an amazing horse in so many ways. If anyone had told me in the spring of 2013 that we would be where we are now, with him having won six Group 1s and over A$8-million in prizemoney, I wouldn't have believed them. It's been a great experience with him right from the very start and it seems fitting that the mare will visit a Coolmore stallion in 2017 given that the Encosta de Lago nomination from which Chautauqua was conceived was purchased through the bush-fire appeal that Coolmore ran in 2009.”
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