Elder Statesman Tale Of The Cat at Ashford Stud

26-year-old Tale Of The Cat has had an illustrious career both on the track as a Grade I winner and at stud as a 7-time Grade I producer. We visited the son of Storm Cat at Coolmore's Ashford Stud.
Tale of the Cat’s pedigree is infused with Coolmore-affiliated blood, both old and new, with his grandsire Storm Bird the founding stallion at Ashford Stud.
His dam Yarn (Mr. Prospector), part of a prominent breed-shaping broodmare duo with her full sister Preach, also produced Minardi (Boundary), who was bred like Tale of the Cat at Indian Creek and was named a European juvenile champion for Coolmore in 2000. Additionally, through her daughter Myth (Ogygian), Yarn is the granddam of Johannesburg (Hennessy), a juvenile champion in Europe and the U.S. for Coolmore before he retired to Ashford and sired the late leading stallion Scat Daddy, whose sons Justify and Mendelssohn now stand alongside Tale of the Cat at Ashford.
Since entering stud in 1999, he has sired seven Grade I winners, headlined by Gio Ponti, who collected seven Grade I’s in his own right, plus three Eclipse Awards, and is now a Grade I-producing sire. Tale of the Cat’s leading daughter, Stopcharingmaria, made waves on the New York circuit, taking the GI Coaching Club American Oaks- GI Alabama S. double at Saratoga before winning the 2015 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
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[@smokeglacken]

I love Tale of the Cat! Still recall his King’s Bishop win like it was yesterday!

[@peggypapczun2906]

He is still so absolutely beautiful at almost 27 years old! He looks fabulous, and I just love him! He is truly a legend!

[@spirituallifecoachinginsti7207]

A LEGEND IS RIGHT...BUILT THE WHOLE PLACE.....!!!

[@eliosanfeliu2195]

There is an amazing chilean breeding place:"Haras Don Alberto"¡¡His owner and CEO Carlos Heller has wanted to expand his know how to US and he has purchased a farm to bred with the tradition of quality of Solari Family in Chile but today in US¡¡His grand father,Mr.Alberto Solari is a legend inside and outside Chile due his kindness and big knowledge of race horse breeding¡¡

[@afnDavid]

Less time showing the human's faces and devote more time showing the horse. We came to see the horse, NOT to hear the people running thier mouths

[@michellenainkristinabusch1221]

These are videos that talk about the horse. To see the horse go to his race videos.