Juddmonte Farms announced March 8 the passing of Kind, the dam of multiple group 1 winners Frankel and Noble Mission, due to complications after foaling a colt by Kingman March 2.
The 20-year-old daughter of Danehill out of Rainbow Lake, by Rainbow Quest, was a second-generation Juddmonte homebred. Her family came into the Juddmonte stud book through the mare Rockfest, who was purchased privately in 1983 as part of a bloodstock package from the John "Jock" Hay Whitney dispersal. When mated with Rainbow Quest, Rockfest produced the Lancashire Oaks (G3) winner Rainbow Lake who went on to compile an enviable record as a broodmare as the dam of three graded/group stakes winners: Arlington Million Stakes (G1T) winner Powerscourt, multiple grade/group 2 winner Riposte, and group 1-placed, group 3 winner Last Train. However, it was her dual listed-winning daughter Kind who would have the biggest impact.
As a racehorse, Kind placed at 2 before doing her best running at 3 when she became a stakes winner in the Betfair.com Flower of Scotland Stakes at Hamilton Park. At 4, she won the Totesport Fillies Stakes at Nottingham and was third in the Ballyogan Stakes (G3) at Leopardstown. She was retired with a 6-0-4 record from 13 starts and earned $132,320.
Kind wasted no time in proving her abilities as a broodmare. Her first foal, by Sadler's Wells, was Bullet Train, who won the Totesport.com Derby Trial (G3). She next went two seasons to Galileo, which produced Frankel and then Noble Mission. Frankel was an enormous source of pride for the late Prince Khalid Abdullah, who watched Frankel race undefeated at the highest level, winning 10 group 1s and being honored as Europe's champion 2-year-old and later as the 2011 Cartier Awards Horse of the Year. Noble Mission made it an embarrassment of riches by winning six group races, which included three group 1s.
Kind now has five stallion sons at stud—Frankel, Noble Mission, Bullet Train, Morpheus (by Oasis Dream), and Proconsul (Galileo). Frankel got off to a fast start at stud by siring 60 (8%) black-type winners from six crops of racing age, which include 43 grade/group winners. Frankel stands at Juddmonte's Banstead Manor in England for £175,000, Noble Mission is at JBBA Shizunai Stallion Station in Japan, Bullet Train at Woodfield Farm Stud in Ireland, Morpheus at Haras de Toury in France, and Proconsul at Annshoon Stud in Ireland.
Kind's daughter Joyeuse and granddaughters group 1-placed Jubiloso and stakes-placed Jovial are in the Juddmonte broodmare band as well. Her 3-year-old Galileo filly Chiasma is currently in training with John Gosden.
Due to Kind's extraordinary achievements, her name is on the International Federation of Horseracing Authority's international list of protected names.
Juddmonte's United Kingdom stud director Simon Mockridge commented: "I cannot thank the Rossdales and Juddmonte team enough for the tireless care they have given Kind. To many she will rightfully always be best remembered as the dam of Frankel and Noble Mission, to us at Juddmonte she will always be Kind by name and Kind by nature."
