Ultra

Racing Form

Six runs, four wins, one place | Best Timeform Rating: 116 | Average winning distance: 7.75f

Stakes form

AT 2 Won Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Crit, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (7f. beating Cymric (USA) and Galileo Gold (GB)).

AT 3 Second in P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte), Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.2, (to Heshem (IRE)).

AT 4 Won Prix Jacques Laffitte, Maisons-Laffitte, L., (9f. beating Wireless (FR) and Le Juge (IRE)).

WHEN YOU think of Monsun the first words that pop into your mind are not necessarily precocity and juvenile stars, but in Ultra, a grandson of the great stallion, that is what you get.

The chestnut son of Manduro was unbeaten in his three runs in a juvenile campaign that culminated with victory in the Group 1 Prix JeanLuc Lagardère, a race in which he beat the following season’s Group 1 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Galileo Gold.

At three, he was second in the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam, one of only two runs that season, and he won his only start as a four-year-old, the Listed Prix Jacques Laffitte.

Ultra is one of six Group 1 winners by Manduro, the European champion older horse of 2007, whose own Group 1 successes included victory in the mile Prix Jacques le Marois.

Bred by Godolphin, he is one of seven winners out of the Nashwan mare Epitome and is a half-brother to Synopsis (In The Wings), who won the Group 3 Prix Minerve, and the Listed-placed Epic Similie (Lomitas).

Epitome is out of the Italian champion sprinter Proskonia, who would seem a logical source of Ultra’s speed and juvenile ability. Proskona is the dam of Canadian Grade 2 winner Calista, and the third dam of Group 1 Prix Lupin and Critierium International winner Act One, Gharir, who was third in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, and Fillies’ Mile (G1) runner-up Summer Symphony.

Proskona is a half-sister to Group 2 Goldene Pleitsche winner Keos, who was placed twice in both the Prix de la Forêt and the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1). More significantly, she is also a half-sister to Korveya, the Group 3 Prix Chloe winner, who is more famous as the dam of Hector Protecor and Bosra Sham.

Ultra covered 73 mares at Godolphin’s Normandy base of Haras du Logis with support from the likes of Criquette Head, Haras du Logis and Gerard Augustin-Normand.

Only two foals from his first crop were offered at the European foal sales last year, with one selling. That was Haras du Hoguenet’s halfsister to Wootton Colt, who won the two-year-old Listed Criterium Nazionale in 2019.

Out of Teth, whose dam is a half-sister to Group 1 winners and stallions Bago and Maxios, the filly made €28,000 bought by Marco Bozzi, four times Ultra’s covering fee.