Retirement
April the Fifth spent twenty years at stud, but he was a poor sire of flat racers. He was however a useful sire of National Hunt horses and Sydney McGregor bred the 1958 Ascot Gold Cup winner Gladness from a mare by April the Fifth. His most successful offspring was the Steeplechaser Red April, who earned £12,900 for his owner Lord Stalbridge.
He died in 1954.
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