Group 1 Winner Ulysses Represented by First Winner
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Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Ulysses trains ahead of the 2016 Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita Park
Cheveley Park Stud's first-season sire Ulysses became the latest stallion to be represented by his first winner when the appropriately Niarchos family-owned and -bred Piz Badile struck at Killarney Racecourse for trainer Donnacha O'Brien July 12.
The 2-year-old is the first foal out of the listed-winning Elusive Quality mare That Which Is Not, another Flaxman Stables homebred, and from the family of the Vodafone Epsom Oaks (G1) heroine Light Shift , Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) scorer Shiva, and the Niarchos' wonderful Lingerie.
Ulysses, a son of Galileo and Light Shift, proved a hugely talented performer on the track for trainer Sir Michael Stoute. A winner on his third start having run once at 2, Ulysses ran in the 2016 Investec Derby (G1), finishing unplaced behind Harzand , but flourished later on in the year with a win in the Beringice Gordon Stakes (G3) and a fourth in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T).
As a 4-year-old, Ulysses scored the biggest victories of his career in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) and Juddmonte International (G1). He also finished second and third to Enable in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) and Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) the same season.
The 8-year-old stands at Cheveley Park Stud in a partnership between the Niarchos family and the Newmarket operation.
Having stood the 2021 breeding season for a fee of £10,000, he has 87 first-crop juveniles to represent him this year.