French National Hunt Sire Triple Threat Relocates to Capital Stud

Capital Stud are delighted to announce that multiple Group winner and French national hunt sire Triple Threat has relocated to our Kilkenny base and will stand under the national hunt arm of our operation for 2024.

A son of Monsun, who is already having a strong impact with his sons at stud, Triple Threat won the Prix La Force (Gr.3) and Eugène Adam (Gr.2) in France as well as the Monmouth Stakes (Gr.2) in the US. Closely related to Canford Cliffs, Triple Threat also finished runner-up in the Northern Dancer Turf Stakes (Gr.1).

Triple Threat sired his first foals in 2018 and from small initial first crops has sired Graded hurdle winner Sans Bruit, Listed hurdle winner Rosa Kleb, Graded/Listed performers Jumper Sacre and Pacific One, as well as exciting hurdlers Mister Policeman and Icare Desbois, both trained by Willie Mullins.

He covered over 100 mares in 2022 while his progeny have made up to €230,000 already.

““We’re always following stallions, seeing which ones are getting promising winners in Britain and Ireland, and Triple Threat appeared on our radar at the backend of last year but he wasn’t for sale.

“We kept hearing from people about the horse, though. Donnchadh Doyle told us he had two horses by him, one a four-year-old and the other three, and he was really impressed with them, and Harold Kirk was bullish about him, with Willie’s two horses having run once and won. He said we had to do all we could to get him in Ireland ‒ we need him here.

“Walter Connors, who would be very influential in National Hunt breeding in Ireland, has bought foals and mares in foal to him, and the Bleahens are invested in his stock too. Everywhere we looked, people who know what they’re doing better than us were telling us they were very high on him.”

“We made enquiries again and, with the help of John Dwan and Nicky Bertran de Balanda, managed to get a deal up and running. We flew over to France to see him, and were impressed by what we saw, but then we expected to be, as we’d already seen a lot of his stock and liked them. 

“We knew we couldn’t leave there without him, and thankfully we managed to negotiate a price.” Ger O’Neill.

Donnchadh Doyle: “Drop A Threat is doing everything nicely at home, but then he was an expensive store. He should be out next month, all being well.

 “I’ve been on to Ger about taking a share in one of his horses for a few years now, and when the chance came up with Triple Threat it was easy enough to take the plunge, as I had a couple by him at home who I was very fond of.

“There aren’t many of his progeny on the ground in Ireland but anyone I’ve spoken to who has one seems to like theirs too, so hopefully we should hear a lot more of him in the coming years.

“I’ve been up to Capital Stud a few times to see him and he’s done very well; he's turned inside out since we saw him in France. You wouldn’t know him now – he looks a million dollars.”