Jeu St Eloi
Bay, 2011, 16.3hh
Retired sound in wind and limb
A Leading Sire of 3YO’s over Hurdles and Fences in France in 2024
Sire of 19 Individual National Hunt BT Performers to date, incl. dual Gr.1 Juvenile Hurdler KARGESE; Top Rated Filly in 2023/24
Sire of Sales Toppers with progeny realising up to €300,000 in 2024
By Champion French Sire Saint des Saints
Half Brother to dual Auteuil Grade 1 Chase Winner Oculi and from the immediate family of Leading French Sire Balko
Complete outcross for Sadler’s Wells line mares
Sire of 19 Individual Black Type Performers and Notable Winners incl.
KARGESE 4 wins incl. Gr.1 Ballymore Champion 4YO Champion Juvenile Hurdle, Punchestown, Gr.1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle, Leopardstown, Gr.3 Prix Sagan Hurdle, Auteuil, 2nd Gr.1 Boodles Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle, Aintree, Gr.1 JCB Triumph Hurdle, Cheltenham BLUEKING D’OROUX 4 wins incl. Gr.2 Coral Hurdle, Ascot, Masterson Holdings Hurdle, Cheltenham, Royal Ascot Racing Club Juvenile Hurdle, Ascot, Prix Gautier de la Seille, Fontainebleau
JAZZY SENAM 3 wins and 2nd Gr.1 Prix Maurice Gillois Chase, Auteuil, Gr.3 Prix Orcada Chase, Auteuil, LR Prix Le Touquet Chase, Auteuil INTHEWATERSIDE 4 wins incl. Winter Million Novices’ Handicap Hurdle, Lingfield, Jewson Birkenhead, Price Street Maiden Hurdle, Aintree, Virgin Bet Open NHF, Sandown, Racingiseveryonessport NHF, Exeter, 3rd Gr.3 William Hill Handicap Hurdle, Aintree
IT’S FOR ME 3 wins incl. Ladbrokes Maiden Hurdle, Punchestown, Racing Again February 12th INH Flat Race, Navan, 4YO Geldings Maiden, Loughanmore PTP LECOEURDESHOMMES 2 wins incl. Prix Weather Permitting Chase, Auteuil, Prix Wild Monarch Hurdle, Auteuil, 4th Gr.3 Prix Hope-Prix Aguado Hurdle, Auteuil, only runs to date
LYNX DES GENIEVRES 2 wins incl. Prix Passerelle Hurdle, Strasbourg, Prix Asap Assurance Generali, Nort-Sur-Erdre
KILGAME 2nd Prix Ventriloque Hurdle, Auteuil, only run to date, subsequently purchased for Robcour for €300,000 by Elliott Bloodstock Services/NBB Racing at Arqana Sales 2024 and is now in training with Henry De Bromhead
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Jeu St Eloi’s first season at Glenview Stud coincided with a career-best season on the track for his progeny, in terms of winners, prize money and black-type performers.
33 winners from 91 runners matched the previous period’s impressive strike rate of 36%. In France, he boasted a strike rate of 37% in 2024, bettering that of his own sire Saint des Saints, as well as Martaline, Kapgarde, Great Pretender and No Risk At All, to name just a few.
The 2023/2024 season also saw Jeu St Eloi responsible for his highest-rated runner in the UK to date, Paul Nicholls’ Grade 2 Coral Hurdle victor Blueking d’Oroux. Nicholls is also responsible for the sire’s Grade 3 performer Inthewaterside.
The star of last season, though, was Willie Mullins’ dual Grade 1 winner Kargese, who finished second on both her other starts at the highest level. She, along with Grade 2 winning chaser Krokodile Dundee and Grade 3 runner-up Kel Espoir En Jeu, contributes to another impressive statistic, in that 12.5% of Jeu St Eloi’s current four-year-old runners are black-type performers.
The effects of a fantastic season were felt at the 2024 store sales, where a median price of €56,000 was attained from buyers such as Gordon Elliott, Highflyer Bloodstock, Tom Malone, Paul Nicholls, Ian Ferguson, Cobajay Stables and Warren Ewing.
These results will have been celebrated by the many breeders who supported Jeu St Eloi in his first season at Glenview Stud. A book of mares brimming in quality included 32 black type performers, such as dual Grade 2 scorer and Grade 1 second Gazelle d’Authie, and Grade 1 winner Augusta Kate. Other proven producers scanned in foal to Jeu St Eloi were the dams of Fury Road, Lalor, Magical Zoe and Slade Steel, as well as own-sisters to Put The Kettle On and The Tullow Tank.
