First foals for Harbinger

One of Harbinger's first foals pictured in Japan

Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s 2010 world champion Harbinger has had his first foals born at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan. His first foal was born on January 7 and was a colt out of the Sunday Silence mare Spread Wing.

Many of his offspring will be owned by Japanese breeders but one reported foal was born to the Kentucky based Runnymede Farm mare Hunter’s Mark. She is by Titus Livius and is a half-sister to the leading 2010 and 2011 Japanese sire King Kamehameha. She had a filly foal born on January 29.

Harbinger did not race as two-year-old but on only his third start at three, he won the Group 3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood. As a four-year-old, he reigned supreme recording four straight Group victories including his incredible 11-length victory in the Group 1 King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot under Olivier Peslier.

After the race, Harbinger became the highest rated horse in the world. A tilt at Europe’s middle-distance jewel, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was planned but sadly injury intervened and Harbinger’s race career was over. He was sold to stand at stud in Japan where he now resides at Japan’s premier stud Shadai Stallion Station.