Diamond Boy
2006, Bay, 16.2
Sire: Mansonnien
Dam: Gold Or Silver
Sire of Cheltenham Gr.1 winners in 2022 and 2023
Impaire et Passe, Dual Gr.1 Cheltenham and Punchestown Novice Hurdle winner in 2023, unbeaten to date. Leading Champion Hurdle contendor 2024.
L’Homme Presse, Leading 3ml Novice Chaser in 2022 season winner of
Brown Advisory Novice Chase Cheltenham 2022, Gr.3 Rehearsal Chase giving 26lbs to runner-up Into Overdrive. Gold Cup contendor 2024.
Multiple winners from First Irish crop of 4YOs including Sharp Object, Diamond Ri, Just Aidan, Cantico, Quantum Boy, Pragnell, Diamond Dealer, Prairie Diamond, etc.
Covered 242 mares in 2023
MANSONNIEN
Sire of Golden Silver, J’Y Vole, Taranis, Mansony, Lady Boston, etc.
1st DAM
Gold or Silver, dam of 7 winners incl 4 Black Type winners by Mansonnien, namely Diamond Boy (5), Golden Silver (13), Or Ou Argent (12), Bielo Vista (6)
A SIRE ON THE RISE – ON THE CREST OF A WAVE
MAJOR WINNERS INCLUDE
His win in the Rehearsal gave us a lot of pleasure last season and there were a lot of very good horses a long way behind him when he unseated at the last in the King George. That run confirmed everything he’d done up to that point. You’ve got to have the Gold Cup as the pinnacle this season but there are lots of nice races between now and then.
Venetia Williams, trainer of L’Homme Presse
The change of pace up to the last and what happened after! Wow. That’s the horse’s fourth run in his life, there is huge improvement there.
Willie Mullins immediately after Impaire Et Passe’s Ballymore win at Cheltenham.
He [Diamond Ri] is potentially my next graded horse coming up through. He is doing things that a lot of our horses don’t do. He won his bumper, and our horses don’t normally do that. He is really exciting.
Joe Tizzard, trainer of Diamond Ri
At the 2023 Sales, Stores sold for €68,000, €58,000, €55,000 x3, €50,000, €48,000, etc. and buyers incl. Highflyer Bloodstock, Nicky Henderson, Peter & Ross Doyle, Joe Tizzard, Kevin Ross, Harry Whittington, Ben Pauling, Jack Cantillon, Cobajay Stables, Mags O’Toole, Warren Ewing, etc.
