Nysaean has his first two-year-olds running this season and was credited with his first winner when colt Brook Green, placed in both of his two previous starts, captured a maiden juvenile event over 1000m at Greyville on Friday.  Brook Green was beaten a short head into second at the line, but after a Stipendiary Steward’s objection was upheld he was declared the winner.
Irish-bred Nysaean was acquired for six million French Francs as a yearling and won six races in a career which saw him campaigned in England, Ireland, and France.  He won six races, all over 2000m, between the ages of three and five, including the Gr 3 Mooresbridge Stakes (twice), the Gr 3 Gallinule Stakes, and the Listed Prix Ridgway.  He finished third in the Gr 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, and fourth in the Gr 1 Irish Derby of 2002, earning a Timeform rating of 119, making him Europe’s ninth highest rated three-year-old of 2002.  Altogether, he contested 22 races, of which 18 were Stakes events.  He was described by Timeform as a “smart colt”, who acted on anything from soft to good-to-firm going.
Nysaean is a son of Sadler’s Wells and is out of the Irish River mare Irish Arms.  The winner of one races, Irish Arms is also the dam of French Listed winner Charme Slave and of Gr 1 runner-up Celtic Cavalier, as well as the second dam of Italian Gr 3 winner Uruk.  Nysaean’s second dam Arme D’or was Gr 2 placed in France and produced American Gr 2 winner Morold as well as French Listed winner Oreste.  Arme D’or is also the second dam of multiple French Gr 2/Gr 3 winner Galla Placidia.
The property of Fieldspring Racing, ten-year-old Nysaean was imported in 2005 and stands at Arc-En-Ciel Stud in the Western Cape for an advertised fee of R10 000.

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