Major Broodmare Reprocolor Dead

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Reprocolor, a blue hen mare for the Weinfeld family at their Meon Valley Stud in England, died early this summer. The daughter of Jimmy Reppin out of the Majority Blue mare Blue Queen was 32.

Reprocolor’s prominence not only rests on the mare’s five stakes winners, but also on the success achieved by her daughters and granddaughters as broodmares. There are 28 stakes winners descending from Reprocolor.

Cezanne was the best of Reprocolor’s stakes winners. He was a champion in Ireland and Germany and a two-time champion in Dubai. His key win came in the 1994 Guinness Champion Stakes (Ire-I).

Bella Colora and Colorspin also were group winners. Colorspin’s biggest win came in the 1986 Gilltown Stud Irish Oaks (Ire-I), and Bella Colora’s came in the Prix de l’Opera (Fr-II). Both mares excelled in their second careers.

Colorspin produced group I winners Opera House, Kayf Tara, and Zee Zee Top, the first two of which two earned multiple championships in Europe. Opera House’s big win came in the 1993 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (Eng-I). Kayf Tara won two runnings of the Gold Cup (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot.

Bella Colora’s four stakes winners include English and French champion Stagecraft, who also won two U.S. grade II stakes, and English champion Balalaika. A great-grandson of Bella Colora, the colt Alessandro Volta, is an English group winner this year for Sue Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith.

Reprocolor became a part of the Weinfelds’ equine venture when she was bought for 25,000 guineas by agent Richard Galpin at the 1977 Tattersalls December yearling sale. As a 3-year-old in 1979, Reprocolor won three stakes, including the Oaks Trial Stakes (Eng-III) and Lancashire Oaks (Eng-III). She became a broodmare the following year.

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