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Ill-fated star racehorse and sensational ill-fated stallion Bernardini (A.P. Indy) achieved as much at stud as he did on the track. From Darley’s Jonabell Farm, the Sheikh Mohammed-bred and owned horse sired no fewer than four Gr1 winners in his first crop: Travers and Cigar Mile winner Stay Thirsty, Woodward and Cigar Mile winner To Honor and Serve, Frizette winner A Z Warrior, plus Italian Gran Criterium winner Biondetti. In his ensuing northern hemisphere crops, his top performers included Godolphin’s homebred Gr1 Travers and Gr1 Woodward winner Alpha, Bobby Flay’s Gr1 Humana Distaff winner Dame Dorothy, Shadwell’s homebred Gr1 Vosburgh winner Takaful, and Stonestreet’s Gr1 winners Cavorting and Rachel’s Valentina, the latter a homebred daughter of Medaglia d’Oro’s great daughter Rachel Alexandra. He also shuttled to Australia for eight seasons between 2008 and 2015, siring the local Group 1 winners Boban, Ruud Awakening, and Go Indy Go. In total, he has sired 80 Black Type winners, 48 Graded Stakes winners, and 15 Gr1 winners worldwide. In recent years, Bernardini has been making a name for himself as one of the best broodmare sires in the history of the breed. In May 2021, he became the youngest stallion ever to reach 50 Black Type winners as a broodmare sire. Bernardini currently has 54 Black Type winners, 32 Graded Stakes winners, and 11 Gr1 winners as a maternal grandsire. Footnote: Bernardini is the dam-sire of 2020-21 Black Type Premiership Performers Angel of Truth (Animal Kingdom), Berdini’s Girl (Odyssey Moon), Dadoozart (Dawn Approach), Handle The Truth (Star Witness) and Subterranean (Rebel Dane).
