Group 1 July Cup Winner Mill Stream To Stand at Yeomanstown Stud
Fresh from securing the position of Champion Sire in Great Britain and Ireland with our flag bearer Dark Angel, we are delighted to announce Mill Stream (Gleneagles ex Swirral Edge) as a welcome addition to our stallion roster for the upcoming 2025 season. A winner of five races, culminating in an impressive victory in this year’s Gr.1 July Cup at Newmarket, beating a high-class field including Gr.1 winners Vandeek, Inisherin, Art Power, Kinross and Khaadem. Mill Stream showed his class early in his career winning over six furlongs on debut followed by good runs behind Noble Style and Chaldean, in a novice and the Gr.3 Acomb Stakes respectively, and finished with a rating of 95 at two. At three, Mill Stream was a dual Stakes winner, landing Listed and Gr.3 events at Deauville, but it was at four where Mill Stream really excelled, winning the Gr.2 Duke of York Stakes, before running third in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot behind Khaadem. Mill Stream backed up these two high-class performances when running out an impressive winner of the Gr.1 July Cup.
By Gleneagles, himself a four-time Gr.1 winner over seven furlongs and a mile and a leading sire in his own right and out of Swirral Edge, herself a winner over five furlongs, Mill Stream is a half brother to high-class two-year-old Asymmetric and from the very fast family of Wunders Dream. An exceptional individual, Mill Stream is a Group 1 winner from a fast family, who himself was a 350,000gns yearling purchase by Anthony Stroud.
Stroud said: “Mill Stream was purchased by Mr Harris at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Bred by Redpender Stud, he was an exceptionally good looking individual who was athletic, light on his feet, with a lot of quality and presence. In training, Mill Stream went on to display a supreme temperament and raced consistently at the highest level. He possesses many of the key attributes necessary to become a top stallion.”
Yeomanstown Stud’s Gay O’Callaghan said of his new recruit;
“I was blown away when I went to see Mill Stream. With his physique, strength, action and quality, I knew we had to have him. The July Cup is always the most important Group 1 sprint of the year. It’s the one everybody wants. And he got it in style.”
