Racing: Raise The Flag for White Robe

Raise The Flag
Raise The Flag
Raise The Flag, a half-brother by champion sire Sadler's Wells to prominent sire Dansili, has been leased to stand at White Robe Lodge, North Taieri, for three years.

Raise The Flag has entered quarantine in England.

The 5yr-old is due to arrive in New Zealand early next month to launch his stud career next spring.

He was restricted to one race as a 3yr-old due to a leg problem.

Dansili (by Danehill) has been a champion sire in France and champion sire of performers on all-weather tracks in 2005-06 and 2006-07.

Dansili and Raise The Flag are out of Hasili (by Kayhasi), the greatest living broodmare in the world.

She has also left group one winners Banks Hill, Intercontinental, Cacique, Heat Haze and Champs Elysees.

Dansili is standing at the Banstead Manor Stud, Newmarket, a part of the Juddmonte Farms operation of Khalid Abdullah.

Juddmonte will also stand triple group one winner Champs Elysees (by Danehill) at Banstead Manor this year.

"The reputation of White Robe Lodge Stud in making top-class stallions and raising top racehorses was a major factor in sending Raise The Flag to New Zealand," Teddy Grimthorpe, the manager of Juddmonte Farms, said in a letter to Wayne Stewart, the stud manager of White Robe Lodge.

Mellay and Noble Bijou have been champion sires to stand at White Robe Lodge established by Brian Anderton in 1959.

Both stallions were unraced and selected by Anderton on their superb pedigrees.

Anderton has particular regard for Sookera (the third dam) in the pedigree of Raise The Flag.

"She is by Roberto, who won the Derby and became a champion sire.

"Sookera was a champion 2yr-old and she left seven winners," he said.

 

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