Analysis of the conformation of yearlings by Fastnet Rock in a story run on Sunday evening that has been super well read overnight got us thinking about his champion son Merchant Navy, whose first crop yearlings will be offered at Magic Millions 2021, so let’s take a look at them.
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Before we go to the Merchant Navy yearlings, it’s worth looking at the horse himself in comparison to his sire.
Fastnet Rock is a world renowned sire of 167 stakes-winners worldwide, whose progeny have won major races in every corner of the globe.
Merchant Navy is his finest colt, a brilliant sprinter that won the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes and Royal Ascot Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
Merchant Navy in type is very much the more compact and muscular Fastnet Rock type and we see that in many of his offspring that also include chestnuts, unlike his sire who is bay dominant.
That fact is no negative as Redoute’s Choice was bay dominant and his best son Snitzel, also gets chestnuts.
