Multiple Grade 1 winner Carl Spackler (IRE) (Lope de Vega {IRE}), who raced in the colours of his breeder Bob Edwards, has been purchased by Yulong and will target Royal Ascot, trained by Ciaron Maher, before embarking on a Gr.1 WS Cox Plate campaign in Australia.
Trained by Chad Brown, Carl Spackler won last year’s Gr.1 FanDuel Fourstardave Handicap and Gr.1 Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes before ending the season with a sixth-place effort in the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile. He returned this year to win the Gr.1 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes at Keeneland.
“It is a business,” Edwards told DRF’s Dave Grening of the decision to sell his homebred. “We’ve had a lot of luck with him, not sure how commercially he’d be received [as a stallion prospect] in the States. The timing worked out.”
Written for TTRAusNZ
