Dansili pensioned at age 22

Group 2 winner and prominent sire Dansili has been pensioned due to declining fertility, Juddmonte Farms announced this week. The 22-year-old son of Danehill and the late blue hen Hasili will live out his days at the operation’s Banstead Manor Stud in England.

“With the support of loyal breeders, Dansili rose from modest beginnings to become one of Europe’s leading sires,” Simon Mockridge, Juddmonte’s U.K. stud director, said in a release. “He has established himself as an incredibly consistent sire of high-class performers. His influence will be felt at Juddmonte for many years to come through his daughters in the broodmare band and via his exciting son Bated Breath, whose career has closely echoed that of his sire to date.”

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Dansili was a Group 2 winner in France and recorded six placings in Grade 1/Group 1 events internationally, including a runner-up effort in the French 2000 Guineas and a third in the 2000 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Several of Dansili’s top runners were well-traveled standouts, led by globetrotting Eclipse Award champion Flintshire. A young stallion now standing in Kentucky, Flintshire earned more than $9.5 million while winning or placing in Grade 1/Group 1 events in North America, England, France, Hong Kong, and Dubai. Dansili also sired Eclipse Award champion Dank, the winner of the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, and multiple Group 1 winner The Fugue, who racked up her own share of frequent-flier miles.

Dansili’s 134 stakes winners also include Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Rail Link, Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Queen’s Trust, and Group 1 winners Emulous, Fallen For You, Giofra, Harbinger, and Zoffany.