Bayardo (horse) - Stud Record

Stud Record

With his very impressive record on the turf, Bayardo was instantly popular as a sire. Standing at his trainer's Manton Stud, his stud fee soon rose to 300 guineas. Bayardo was Champion Sire in 1917 and 1918, and leading broodmare sire in 1925. He produced three classic winners, two of which went on to win the English Triple Crown. However, his excellent breeding career was cut short after he contracted thrombosis at the age of eleven, paralysed his hind legs and resulting in his death.

His progeny included:

• Allenby: second in the 2,000 Guineas
• Bayuda: Bayardo filly, winner of the Oaks
• Gainsborough: winner of the 1918 English Triple Crown, sire of four classic winners. His progeny included Hyperion, winner of the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger and champion sire six years in succession, and Solario, winner of the St. Leger and Ascot Gold Cup.
• Gay Crusader: winner of the 1917 English Triple Crown and £11,246.
• Good and Gay: dam of stakes winning Saucy Sue (stakes winner of £25,284).
• Manilardo: winner of the Coronation Cup;
• Manton: third in the St. Leger, later one of the top three leading sires in Poland during the 1920s and champion sire in 1930.
• Mapledurham: third (both to Bayuda) in the Cheveley Park Stakes and in the Oaks
• Pompadour: third in the 1,000 Guineas.

Other descendants include:

• Saucy Sue: granddaughter of Bayardo, and put him on the top of the "sire of broodmares" list. She won the 1,000 Guineas, the Oaks, and the Coronation Stakes; third in the Park Hill Stakes.
• Hyperion provided the main branch of Bayardo descendants. Hyperion's progeny included Alibhai, Aristophanes, Aureole, Gulf Stream, Heliopolis, Helios, Hornbeam, Khaled, Owen Tudor, Ruthless and Aldis Lamp.