The influence of the Coktail Jet line on world trotting continues unabated, reigning French champion Love You showing he too is now a formidable sire of sires with his leading son Quaker Jet, finishing in the top 20 (16) on the French classification, with only four crops racing.
Coktail Jet (by French sire Quoky Williams from Canadian mare Armbro Glamour) is still in the top 10 (8) of the General classification alongside his sons Love
You (1) and Look de Star (7), the trio representing the Sam Williams line, which was imported into France before World War II and the post-war closing of the French stud book.
Another son of Coktail Jet, Magnificent Rodney (12) joins Love You’s son Quaker Jet in the top 20 while there are a further half dozen sons and grandsons of
Coktail Jet – a total of 11 – in the top 50.
But that influence is growing exponentially with latest 3YO stats showing that no less than half of the top 20 sires of qualifiers are descendants of Coktail Jet led by grandson Quaker Jet, who tops the list.
Coktail Jet, Love You’s brother Repeat Love, who is becoming a force in his own right, and another son Saxo de Vandel are in the top ten while The Best Madrik,
whose first crop this is, joins Love You in the top 20.
There are a further eight Coktail Jet line sires in the top 50 3YO sires, including Korean who had fame last year as the sire of the World’s fastest ever horse, Sebastian K.
The recently completed 2YO season saw no less than 10 of the top 20 sires of qualifiers being Coktail Jet line horses including four in their debut season including Coktail Jet sons Tucson and Uniclove and two more sons of Love You in Prix d’Amerique winner Royal Dream and Un Amour D'Haufor.
With Quaker Jet’s brilliant son Aladin d’Ecajeul already at stud, the Coktail Jet revolution is in full cry. Indeed Quaker Jet had three 2YO winners in the last weeks of the season, in Du Gite (2425m Angers) Direct Way (2050m Cabourg) and Dauphine du Mont (2YO 2050 Cabourg).
Love You’s richest son has also been producing a steady stream of winners at the Vincennes Winter Meeting, where the very best of French trotting assemble for
the sport’s richest series.
Last week Champion trainer Sebastien Guarato’s lightly raced mare After Winner won the Prix de Chambord, becoming the latest of Quaker Jet’s progeny to win
over €100,000.
And early 4YO Charming Boy Fac made it two wins from two starts for Julien La Mer, with his victory at Vincennes in the Prix d’Erbray under the guidance of
Franck Nivard, breaking the 2min rate (1’14”6) for the 2100m.
Meanwhile in Sweden, Quaker Jet gelding Yoggi Composite has won four of his last five starts.
Dave Sanders