SUMBE I Charyn

A LEADING MILER BY A LEADING SIRE OF MILERS

• An impressive winner at the top level in France and England.
• Carries over the brilliance of a top class sprinter into a mile.

• The fastest colt ever to win the Gr.1 Prix Jacques le Marois.

• Highly competitive thoroughout his career, on a variety of tracks and goings.

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DARK ANGEL x FUTOON I 16.00 hh I

Ancre 1

I Race record

Won from 6 to 8 furlongs

At 2

1st Gr.2 Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte vidéo
1st EBF Maiden Stakes

At 3 & 4

1st Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes
1st Gr.1 Prix Jacques le Marois vidéo
1st Gr.2 Bet365 Mile
2nd Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes
2nd Gr.1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp
3rd Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes
3rd Gr.1 Sussex Stakes

Read insights by time expert Bruno Barbereau

I am delighted to announce that Charyn, the leading miler in Europe and impressive winner of thisyear’s Gr.1s Queen Anne Stakes and Prix Jacques Le Marois, will retire at the end of the racing season to become the fifth Group 1 winner on Sumbe’s stallion roster. A powerful individual with a textbookconformation, Charyn looks set to suit the demands of an increasingly selective market.
In his conditioner Roger Varian’s own words, « Charyn has proved to be an exceptional racehorse, showing both durability and class. He was precocious enough to win on his racecourse debut in August as a two-year-old, and went on to become a G2 winning juvenile in the Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte. Charyn has raced consistently (...)

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Quotes

" His stretch drives are testament to an above-average class and to a merciless ability to post fast, sustained closing fractions."

Bruno Barbereau

" Charyn is the type of horse that we should all be breeding to - sound, tough, and very, very good."

Roger Varian

" When you’re riding a good horse it makes it look very easy."

Silvestre de Sousa

" Dark Angel really does seem to be a force for good in a pedigree, especially as his progeny are often so durable. With only a handful of his sons at stud in Europe, Sumbe could be left holding all the aces."

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