This week it will be six years since the unheralded Paul Perry trained colt Choisir flew to the other side of the world and lifted two of Europe's biggest sprint races at Royal Ascot, his performance to capture the Group Two King's Stand Stakes followed by the Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes four days later, an unparalleled achievement that is yet to be repeated, reports Breednet.com.au.It says: Since blazing the trail in 2003, many others have followed with varying degrees of success including

This week it will be six years since the unheralded Paul Perry trained colt Choisir flew to the other side of the world and lifted two of Europe's biggest sprint races at Royal Ascot, his performance to capture the Group Two King's Stand Stakes followed by the Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes four days later, an unparalleled achievement that is yet to be repeated, reports Breednet.com.au.

It says: Since blazing the trail in 2003, many others have followed with varying degrees of success including Takeover Target and Miss Andretti, but none have won the prestigious double highlighting the phenomenal constitution and sheer physical power of Choisir, attributes that are now driving him to the top of the third season sires division in Australia.

Rated the best juvenile colt of his generation having placed in the Group One Triple Crown races of STC Golden Slipper, AJC Sires' Produce Stake and Champagne Stakes, Choisir went for his winter spell rates as a talented, but headstrong colt that many pundits though would benefit immensely from gelding.

As a $55,000 purchase from the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, Choisir was not a blue-blood.

He was a cracking type by a fledgling and somewhat unfashionable shuttle sire in Danehill Dancer (IRE) from the Lunchtime (GB) mare Great Selection, whose pedigree featured no Black Type apart from a grand-dam that won the Listed STC Christmas Cup over 2400 metres.

How Choisir escaped the knife is one of the anomalies of racing, but a decision that would reap millions down the track for his lucky owners the Wallace and Perry families.

Consistent without winning during the early part of the spring as a three year-old, Choisir was freshened up for Flemington and dropped back to the sprint trips with dazzling results.

He won the Group Three VRC L'Oreal Plate (now Group One Coolmore Ascot Vale) on Derby Day only to lose it on protest in the stewards' room and then backed up to beat the older horses in a scintillating performance to win the Group Two VRC Emirates Classic (now Group One).

A short spell of 13 weeks followed and then he was back at Flemington winning the Group One VRC Lightning Stakes from star sprinting mare Spinning Hill in 56.63 seconds for the 1000 metres.

Close up in three more Group One sprint races during the autumn, Choisir seemed destined to be an above average, if not dominant sprinter, with a modest career at stud to look forward to, but then his trainer Paul Perry thought outside the square and the rest is history.