ENGLISH TEXTS the stable has started 2025 suggests, however, that the best is still in the future. On March, 20 2020 as an owner, Yeguada Centurion has had four runners for three wins and a second place including Stakes wins with the three year old colts Tito Mo Cen and Darius Cen. Tito Mo Cen, a son of recently deceased Uncle Mo, has won both his starts for trainer Victoria Head and took the 1 800 meters Listed Prix Maurice Caillault at Chantilly by 1 ½ lengths. After two starts the half-brother to the top filly Ramatuelle doesn’ t have an official rating but he beat a horse rated 42.5 4 ½ lengths into third place which puts him among the best of his generation in France. Darius Cen, a son of Persian King and the winner of the Listed Prix Omnium over 1,600 at Saint Cloud two weeks later earned an official rating of 48.5, making him already the fourth best three year colt in France. Yeguada Centurion has fourteen three year olds in training in France split between Victoria Head and Henri-Francois Devin and these currently include six rated 42 or higher, and four of the top twenty with Epson Blue Cen and Sir Tommy Cen both rated 46, as well as Frankly Good Cen, the unbeaten winner of a maiden in Deauville at two and Spanish Breeze Cen second in a maiden at Saint Cloud this year. Yeguada Centurion’ s has had outstanding results from the beginning when its first run- ner Sabio Cen won a two year maiden at Fontainebleau in 2021. The generation born in 2020 included the Champion filly and dual Classic winner Blue Rose Cen, as well as the Group 1 winners and current stallions Big Rock and over jumps Jigme. The following year’ s crop included Group 1 winner Ramatuelle and Stakes winner Daring Prince who were both sold as yearlings. This consistent success at the highest level has been achieved despite several changes in trainers and while the operation’ s own stud farm, the Haras de Centurion at Nonant-le-Pin, has been renovated and the mares were based at the Haras de l’ Hotellerie.
Targeted investments Yeguada Centurion has invested in three phases starting in 2018 and at public auction it has spent something in the region of 14 million euros on mares and fillies. In 2018 acting through Francisco Bernal’ s Outsider Bloodstock, Yeguada Centurion bought ten mares and fillies in Europe at an average price of € 200,000. These included the Group 3 winner Reina Madre, bought as a foal, as well as Simawa, the dam of Jigme, and Briseida, the dam of Darius Cen. The following year under its own name Yeguada bought thirty in Europe and the USA at an average price of € 170,000 and these included Raven’ s Lady, the dam of Ramatuelle and Tito Mo Cen, as well as Hardiyna, the dam of Big Rock. In 2020 a further twenty two mares and fillies were bought but this time only in America and almost all with very American pedigrees at an average price of 160.000 €. This third batch has had only one three year old crop to race but it has not been as successful so far, although it included the dam of Rosa Salvaje, a Group placed two year old of 2024 who was sold as a yearling and is in training with Christopher Head. And then after a break Yeguada Centurion returned to the market in 2024 buying twenty four mares and fillies in Europe and the United States at an average price of € 120,000, with a view to providing support for Big Rock who has started his stallion career this year at the Haras de Grandchamp. Fourteen million euros at public auction, together with some private deals, on bloodstock alone, as well as the covering fees, training fees, the purchase and renovation of a stud farm is by any standards a significant investment. However, the return already includes a stallion in Big Rock, two of the best stallion prospects of the 2025 Classic generation in Tito Mo Cen and Darius Cen, as well as in Raven’ s Lady, an eleven-year-old daughter of Raven’ s Pass whose first two foals are Ramatuelle and Tito Mo Cen, one of the best young broodmares in the world and of course several other broodmares of the highest quality. Looking
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