Stallion statistics: Montjeu

DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH DERBY-G1

€1,500,000, Curragh, 6-28, 3yo, c/f, 1 1/2mT, 2:30.87, gd/yl.

1--FAME AND GLORY (GB), 126, c, 3
Montjeu (Ire)--Gryada (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)
O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Ptarmigan
Bloodstock & Kirsten Rausing; T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Johnny Murtagh; €843,000.

2--Golden Sword (GB), 126, c, 3
High Chaparral (Ire)--Sitara (GB), by Salse.
O-M Tabor, D Smith & S Magnier; B-T E Pocock & Morton Bldstk; T-A O'Brien; €300,000.

3--Mourayan (Ire), 126, c, 3
Alhaarth (Ire)--Mouramara (Ire), by Kahyasi (Ire).
O-His Highness The Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan’s Studs SC; T-John Oxx; €150,000.

Margins: 5, 1, 10. Odds: 8-11, 11-1, 8-1.
Also Ran: Masterofthehorse (Ire), Recharge (Ire), Gan Amhras (Ire), The Bull Hayes (Ire), Loch Long (Ire), Rockhampton (Ire), Byzantine (GB), Drumbeat (Ire).
Non runners: Hail Caesar (Ire), Sea the Stars (Ire).

A 190,000 gns Tattersalls foal, Fame And Glory is out of the winning Group Three-placed mare Gryada, also the dam of the winning Listed-placed pair Grampian and Guaranda. The second dam Grimpola won the Group Two German 1000 Guineas.

Fame And Glory joins Motivator (who is having his first runners as a sire at the moment and awaits his first winner), Authorized, Hurricane Run and Frozen Fire as Derby-winning sons of Montjeu, who has 41 European winners this term. The son of Sadler's Wells has only one juvenile winner thus far, and overall only 14% of his wins come from two-year-olds, with 48% in the three-year-old division. He leads our list of leading middle distance sires by European earnings.

Pedigree of FAME AND GLORY (GB), 2006