Trade Fair retired to stud

The Roger Charlton-trained Trade Fair has been retired to take up stallion duties in 2006.

Charlton’s five-year-old entire will be kept at David Redvers’ Tweenhills Farm and Stud – although a fee is still being finalised.

Trade Fair won a Newbury two-year-old maiden by six lengths and completed his juvenile season by finishing third in the Group One Darley Dewhurst Stakes.

His three-year-old efforts included a brilliant four-length win in Newmarket’s Group Three Criterion Stakes, and victories in Newbury’s Listed Dubai Duty Free Cup and the King Charles II Stakes at Newmarket.

He added a further notable success last season when winning the Group Three Minstrel Stakes over seven furlongs at the Curragh.

Charlton said: “There is little doubt that Trade Fair was unlucky not to have won a Group One. He had terrific speed and an electric turn of foot, but never had his ground when it really mattered.

“His performance at Newmarket in the Criterion Stakes made him a worthy favourite for the Sussex Stakes, but he failed to get home on the soft ground.

“He is a gorgeous horse out of an unbeaten stakes-winning daughter of the great Danehill and his late sire is on fire. He should prove a boon for British breeders.”