2020 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) and 2019 Prix du Jockey Club (G1) hero Sottsass, a first-season sire at Coolmore, has been sold to Japan and will stand at the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders Association's Shizunai Stallion Station.
The Ecurie des Monceaux-bred son of Siyouni sold to Oceanic Bloodstock for €340,000 at Arqana's August Yearling Sale in 2017. Sporting the colors of Peter Brant's White Birch Farm, he was a three-length winner on his second start at 2 in 2018 before supplementing a listed Prix de Suresnes route the following May with a two-length defeat of 2019 French Two Thousand Guineas (G1) hero Persian King in the Prix du Jockey Club.
Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, he went on to land the 2019 Prix Niel (G2) that autumn and place third to Waldgeist and Enable in the Arc.
The following year, the colt won the Prix Ganay (G1) on his second start and landed the Arc on his final racecourse start, defeating the likes of In Swoop, Persian King, Enable, and Stradivarius in testing conditions.
The brother to this year's Japanese Derby (G1) and Irish Champion Stakes (G1) third Shin Emperor then retired to Coolmore for an opening fee of €30,000 in 2021.
Having stood the last three seasons for €25,000, the 8-year-old has so far produced eight individual winners from 30 runners including White Birch Farm homebred Ultrafragola. The filly had made an impressive debut for Rouget and Brant when winning a Deauville maiden by 5 1/2 lengths in July.
His first crop numbers 98 juveniles while he has 81 yearlings and 55 foals registered. He covered 103 mares at Coolmore's Fethard headquarters back in the spring, including six group winners.
At this season's yearling sales, 10 of his progeny recorded six-figure sales including at Tattersalls Book 1 and 2, Goffs Orby Book 1 and the recent Hokkaido Yearling Sale in Japan.
His highest-priced yearling of 2024 is Rose Eternelle, a half sister to group winners Arabian Crown and The Juliet Rose from the family of Sea La Rosa. She was sold, appropriately, by Ecurie des Monceaux for €460,000 to Oceanic Bloodstock at Arqana's August Yearling Sale.
Sottsass is out of the brilliant, late producer Starlet's Sister, a Galileo mare who has also produced 2018 American champion turf female Sistercharlie, by Myboycharlie, and multiple group/graded scorer and top-level-placed My Sister Nat, by Acclamation, among seven individual winners. Starlet's Sister sadly died aged 14 last November due to a bout of colic.
Sottsass is one of 10 individual top-level winners by brilliant Haras de Bonneval resident Siyouni, whose remaining sons at Coolmore are St Mark's Basilica and Paddington. The former, the 2020 Dewhurst Stakes (G1) winner at age 2 and European champion at 3, saw his first yearlings sell for up to €1.7 million, while four-time group 1 hero Paddington covered his first book this term.
