Bertrando—St. Helen’s Shadow by Septieme Ciel
AN EMERGING SIRE OF TOP CLASS TWO-YEAR-OLDS.
Sire of 12% First-crop Stakes Winners from foals.
Sire of 20 Two-Year-Old winners in 2007.
Officer has sire Stakes winners in North America and Europe, on the Dirt, Turf and Polytrack.
Including multiple Stakes winner and Sovereign Award Finalist Officer Cherrie (G3), Alpine Lass and track record-setter Officer Frank.
With his first crop of runners in 2006, Officer was the sire of 6, Two-Year-Old First-Crop Stakes Winners. Only Elusive Quality, Johannesburg and Successful Appeal have sired as many Juvenile Stakes Winners.
In his second crop, Officer is the Sire of 10 Stakes Winners. To put 10 Stakes Winners in one year into perspective, for a Second-Crop Sire; the only other Sires to do so are Giant’s Causeway, Forestry, Street Cry and Elusive Quality.
No other North American Second-Crop Sire in 2007 has more cumulative Stakes Winners than Officer, not even Street Cry or Johannesburg.
The 2007 Two-Year-Old Sire List, Officer ranks #2 by percentage of 2YO Stakes Winners to foals, better than Leading Sire Storm Cat, who ranks #3.
Officer, sire of the $1,400,000 Sales Topper at the Barretts March Two-Year-Old in Training Sale, purchased by John Ferguson.