WORLD TO STAND IN AUSTRALIA Darley July Cup winner Agnes World will stand at Widden Stud in New South Wales for this year`s southern hemisphere breeding season.The son of Danzig, also successful in the 1999 Prix de l`Abbaye at Longchamp, became the first Japanese-trained horse to win a Group One race in Britain when beating Lincoln Dancer by a short head at Newmarket last year.Widden Stud marketing manager Antony Thompson completed the deal with Shadai Stallion Station last week and Agnes World will join two other sons of Danzig, Anabaa (won the 1996 July Cup) and Belong To Me, at Widden.'Danzig is the most important sire of sires in the world and Agnes World is an extremely exciting stallion for us to stand alongside our Danzig horses Belong To Me and Anabaa,' Thompson told the official AAP website.'He is a lovely type in a similar mould to Anabaa.'He has beautiful balance and great presence and is ideally suited to Australian conditions in every way possible.'Danzig is fourth on the list of sires of individual Group One winners with 40, behind Sir Tristram and Sadler`s Wells on 45 and Mr Prospector on 43.A US1.5 million yearling, Agnes World was a Group winning two-year-old in Japan but it was in Europe that he made his mark with two Group One successes.'We aimed for the July Cup immediately after Agnes World won the Abbaye because we believed it was a race that would only enhance his value as a stallion,' part-owner Teruya Yoshida told the AAP.Agnes World will have a limited book at Widden where he will stand for AUS35,000.
