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Australian Horse of the Year and five-time Gr.1 winner Dissident has been secured by Dr Kevin Pendergast to continue his stallion career at Riverdene Stud in the Riverina region of NSW.
One of the leading 2, 3 and 4YO performers of the past decade, Dissident commenced his racing career as a Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview winning juvenile and proceeded to win at Gr.1 level in his Classic season as well as an older horse and on no fewer than four occasions during his third and final season in racetrack competition.
The Randwick Guineas Gr.1 winner and Golden Rose Gr.1 runner-up of his 3YO generation, Dissident took all before him as a 4YO, claiming the All Aged Stakes Gr.1, VRC Makybe Diva Stakes Gr.1, MRC CF Orr Stakes Gr.1, and Memsie Stakes Gr.1 over 1400m-1600m.
Dissident’s 4YO feats saw him decorated as the Horse of the Year, as well as the Champion Sprinter & Older Horse in Australia, and gain a peak World Thoroughbred Ranking of 121.
Dissident was subsequently retired to Newgate Farm as the most accomplished son of Golden Slipper winner Sebring, the Champion 2YO Colt of 2007/08 himself being the standout domestically-raced son of the worldwide stud phenomenon More Than Ready (USA).
In unison with his racing career, Dissident is siring early coming 2YO winners only getting better with age.
Other black-type progeny by Dissident include the ATC Flight Stakes Gr.1 placegetter Foxborough, the ATC Ming Dynasty Handicap Gr.3 placed Reformist, and the dual Listed runner-up Aidensfield.
So far this season, Dissident is the sire of 55 winners of $2.8 million in progeny earnings in 2020/21 alone and had a metropolitan winner at Canterbury on Wednesday in Rules Don't Apply.
Significantly, Dissident’s accomplishments as a sire have been achieved by around one-third of the foals he produced during his first five stud seasons, with another wave of racing age offspring still to hit the racetrack.
Dissident is to stand at a fee of $6600 (inc GST) payable on live foal terms in his first season at Riverdene Stud.