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Chanteclair Farm

Location: Versailles, KY
Services: General Management

Chanteclair Farm was established by Prince Saud bin Khaled in 1995 with the purchase of a 260-acre farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. This operation was selected, developed, and managed by Ron Wallace’s Equine Farm Management, Inc. It was established to care for Prince Khaled’s broodmare band. Mares owned by Prince Khaled’s Palides Investments, N.V., Inc. were bred and cared for with the goal raising the best possible horses for sales and racing.

The broodmare band at Chanteclair, which translated from French means “singing clear,” typically averaged 16-18 mares per year. Under Prince Khaled’s ownership and Wallace’s management, the Chanteclair broodmare band produced 23% stakes horses from starters and 75% winners from starters. The farm’s overall percentages were 17% stakes horses from total foals raised at the farm. The best foal crop results for a single year yielded 88% winners and 50% stakes horses, with several other foal crops closely challenging those statistics.

Five Breeders’ Cup horses represented Chanteclair Farm since 2007, including:

  • Maram, winner of the 2008 inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, she also ran sixth by only 3½ lengths to Midday in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT).
  • Biondetti, who finished fourth to Uncle Mo in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I).
  • Royal Delta, a multiple Eclipse Award-winning champion who was Chanteclair Farm’s most famous Breeders’ Cup winner. Royal Delta won the 2011 and 2012 runnings of the Bredders’ Cup Ladies Classic (gr.I). Royal Delta was a multiple grade I winner and Champion Mare in 2011 and 2012, with total earnings to date of over $3,763,853.
  • Rough Sailing, who was a gr. III stakes-placed winner, was fatally injured during the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT).
  • Lear’s Princess, who ran against Ginger Punch, Octave, Unbridled Belle, and Balance in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (gr. I).

Chanteclair’s Stakes Horses (in alphabetical order):

  • Absent Friend (gr. III stakes winner, multiple grade III stakes placed, career earnings of $368,904)
  • Beret (stakes winner, gr. III stakes-placed, $251,251)
  • Biondetti (gr. I stakes winner, $323,740, ran fourth to Uncle Mo in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, gr. I)
  • Continuously (gr. I stakes winner, $380,860)
  • Cosmic Queen (multiple stakes-placed, winner, $180,712)
  • Cuaba (gr. II and gr. III stakes-placed, winner, $208,264)
  • Delta Princess (multiple gr. III stakes winner; multiple gr. III stakes-placed, $740,918)
  • Dreams Gallore (gr. I stakes winner, grade III stakes winner, multiple gr. I stakes-placed, gr. II stakes-placed, $588,615)
  • Empire Way (gr.2 stakes-placed, winner, $119,170
  • Fantastic Cousin (stakes-placed, winner, $98,425)
  • Fateful Dream (gr. III stakes winner, multiple stakes winner, multiple stakes-placed, including gr. III stakes-placed, $294,469)
  • Giant Chieftan (multiple stakes-placed, winner, $204,521)
  • Golden Dice (stakes-placed, winner, $221,195)
  • Go Lib Go (gr. III stakes winner, multiple stakes winner, multiple stakes placed, including gr. III stakes-placed, $288,316)
  • Honour the West (stakes-placed, winner, $81,744)
  • Indy Five Hundred (gr. I stakes winner, gr. II stakes-placed, $244,510)
  • John’s Road (stakes-placed, winner, $145,212)
  • Kavasaky (stakes-placed, winner in Italy, $143,754)
  • Lear’s Princess (gr. I stakes winner, multiple stakes winner, multiple gr. I stakes-placed; gr. II stakes-placed; gr. III stakes-placed, $491,870, ran in 2007 Breeders’ Cup Distaff, gr. I)
  • Le Dauphin (stakes-placed, winner, $136,599)
  • Libertaire (stakes winner, $79,671)
  • Maram (gr. IT 2008 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, gr. III stakes winner, multiple stakes winner, gr. III stakes-placed, $900,320)
  • Moomtazz (multiple stakes winner, multiple stakes-placed, $228,809)
  • Purely Classic (multiple stakes-placed, winner, $201,505)
  • Ramsgate (gr. II stakes-placed, winner, $225,086, set multiple new track records)
  • Rough Sailing (gr. III stakes-placed, winner, $37,534, ran in 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, gr. IT but was injured and did not finish)
  • Royal Delta (multiple BC Distaff winner and Champion, $3,763,851)
  • Seacrettina (stakes winner, stakes-placed, $74,087)
  • Sixtyone Margaux (stakes winner, $147,890)
  • Silver Screamer (gr. III winner, $311,245)
  • Top Surprize (stakes winner, $139,939)
  • Trump My Heart (gr. II stakes-placed, $107,455)
  • Western Summer (gr. III stakes-placed, $161,497)

Prince Khaled died in early 2011. Most of his breeding and racing stock was dispersed. Chanteclair Farm was sold in May 2013. The property is located at 1435 Aiken Road in Versailles, KY – map

For more on Prince Khaled visit his tribute page on this website.