Armor keeps raising the bar with fifth juvenile winner
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ARMOR strengthens an already exceptional season as HARMONY IN BLUE becomes his fifth individual two-year-old winner, lifting our Haras de Bouquetot resident to an outstanding 42% winners-to-runners strike-rate with his juveniles.
The juvenile filly opens her account at third asking over 1,200 metres in the Prix des Bains de Mer. Trained by P. de Chevigny and partnered by Cristian Demuro, she races for a partnership headed by Gérard Augustin-Normand alongside Isabelle Corbani, Le Marais SAS and Laurent Bruneteau. Out of Linea Blu (Due Diligence), HARMONY IN BLUE was bred by B. Girres, Mme B. Carré Pistollet and Mme X. Stadnitsky Kolendo. Congratulations to her breeders and connections!
This latest winner further enhances the outstanding efficiency of ARMOR's second crop. Earlier this season, AIX LES BAINS, VALENTINA BELLA, ARMOR SUPREME and EPIFAGNA all score as juveniles, with VALENTINA BELLA a Listed winner of the Prix des Rêves d'Or at Vichy and ARMOR SUPREME adding further Blacktype when beaten only a short head in the Marygate Fillies' Stakes Listed at York.
Those performances see ARMOR rank second only to his own sire No Nay Never among Europe's leading sires of two-year-olds by percentage of Stakes winners to runners, underlining the exceptional quality and precocity emerging from a numerically modest crop.
Across his first two crops of racing age, ARMOR also produces two Listed winners from just 30 individual runners in 2026, maintaining an exceptional strike-rate of almost 10% Blacktype horses to runners.
