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Merchant Navy Retired

Tara Madgwick - Saturday June 30
Australian bred Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy will be retired from racing without another start and will travel back to Australia as planned to begun the breeding season at Coolmore Australia this spring.

Coolmore Tweeted - Dual G1 winning #RoyalAscot hero Merchant Navy (Fastnet Rock) has been retired and arrived @coolmorestud this morning where he will enter quarantine before travelling to @CoolmoreAus where the world-class sprinter will cover an outstanding first book of mares #CoolmoreSire

Merchant Navy and Tom Magnier"Merchant Navy's amazing win at Royal Ascot means he retires to stud as one of the best sprinting colts of modern times," said Coolmore Australia's Tom Magnier.

"We're very excited about his stallion prospects as he was such a brilliant three-year-old sprinter, just like his sire Fastnet Rock and grandsire Danehill."

Merchant Navy is the first son of Fastnet Rock to stand for Coolmore and has an outstanding profile given his pedigree, race performance and remarkable constitution and temperament that brought him victory in the Group I Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

His female family is packed with Black Type and his Group III winning dam Legally Bay is by outstanding speed influence Snippets, while her next two dams are by champion sire Last Tycoon (IRE) and the very influential Twig Moss (Fr), who appears twice in his pedigree as he is also the sire of the third dam of Fastnet Rock.

Merchant Navy is everything his pedigree said he should be and breeders will be hoping he can pass on his brilliance and tenacity in the years to come.

He stands at a fee of $55,000 haring top billing with Newgate Farm's Russian Revolution as the most expensive first season sire in Australia for 2018.


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