South African Sire Series - Bahadur

Bahadur was a very successful racehorse, with 9 wins. These included the Benson & Hedges Metropolitan GR1 ( Now the J&B Met), the Transvaal Champion Stakes GR1 (now The Champions Challenge), The Clairwood Winter Handicap GR1 (now the Champions Cup), among many others. One of the most exciting racehorses of his generation. He was by Noble Chieftain, out of the Abadan II mare, Ondulee.

He was all set for a big stud career, but unfortunately, was a bit of a disappointment. He was at stud from 1978 to 1986, produced 125 foals, 93 runners, of which only 42 were winners. He did not produce any stakes winners, but had 5 individual stakes placed progeny.

In 1982 he sired Errol Wucherpfennig's Marble Hall, who won the 1995 South African Show Jumping Championship. The very next year the South African Show Jumping Championship was won by Kim Robson and Ruby Mountain, whose dam sire is Bahadur! I believe Ruby Mountain was exported to Europe in the late 90's, where Kim competed very successfully on him in the international arena. Ruby Mountain had 1 win and 8 places as a racehorse, and Marble Hall raced 14 times for just 2 places.

This is Ruby Mountain as a yearling, being advertised for the 1985 National Yearling Sales:

 It seems that while he never set the race tracks alight as a racing sire, his progeny had impressed enough for someone to give him a second career as a show jumping sire, where he sired top horses like Varlet Bazaruto and Baluga, who were both out of Warmblood mares.