Royal Statute (CAN)
March 2, 1969 – c. 1987
Northern Dancer (CAN) x Queen’s Statute (GB), by Le Lavandou (FR)
Family 22-b
“GENETIC GEM”
March 2, 1969 – c. 1987
Northern Dancer (CAN) x Queen’s Statute (GB), by Le Lavandou (FR)
Family 22-b
“GENETIC GEM”
Royal Statute was not among Northern Dancer’s better daughters on the track, winning just one of eight starts. As a broodmare, she was something else again. The dam of three stakes winners including a two-time champion, she has bred on strongly through multiple daughters. Because her best offspring did not complete in Canada, she never earned honors as the Canadian Broodmare of the Year, but she became one of the best broodmares ever produced in Canada, establishing a family that has enjoyed great international success.
Race record
8 starts, 1 win, 2 seconds, 0 thirds, US$9,490
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Designated as a Reine-de-Course by pedigree analyst Ellen Parker, Royal Statute produced 10 named foals. Of these, eight started and seven won. Her important foals are as follow:
Connections
Foaled in Ontario, Royal Statute was bred and owned by E. P. Taylor. Her last foal was produced in 1987 but died unnamed.
Pedigree notes
Royal Statute is outcrossed through five generations. A full sister to three-time Canadian champion Dance Act and juvenile stakes winner North of the Law, she is also a full sister to Falafel, dam of 1985 Premio Parioli (Italian Two Thousand Guineas, ITY-G1) winner Again Tomorrow (by Honest Pleasure) and 1992 St. James’s Palace Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Brief Truce (by Irish River) and third dam of multiple Japanese Group 3 winner Makoto Brillar. Royal Statute is a half sister to juvenile stakes winner Down North (by Victoria Park) and to 1963 Canadian Oaks winner Menedict (by Ménétrier), second dam of 1988 Canadian champion 2-year-old male Mercedes Won and third dam of 2000 New Zealand Oaks (NZ-G1) winner She’s Country and Australian Group 3 winner Country Lane. Royal Statute is also a half sister to Canadian stakes winners Epic Queen (by Epic) and Court Royal (by Chop Chop) and to stakes-placed Queen’s Law (by Queen’s Own), dam of Canadian stakes winners Queen’s Splendour (by Impressive) and Queen’s Answer (by Northern Answer), second dam of Grade 2 winner With the Flow, and third dam of multiple Venezuelan Group 1 winner Mantle.
Queen’s Statute, the dam of Royal Statute and her sibs, was imported to Canada in 1956 after being purchased for E. P. Taylor for 3,500 guineas from the 1955 Tattersalls October yearling sale. Sired by 1946 Prix d’Arenberg winner Le Lavandou (by Djebel) out of the Son-in-Law mare Statute, she never raced but is a full sister to English stakes winner Grand Statute.
Queen’s Statute is out of the Son-in-Law mare Statute, winner of the 1939 Brighton Autumn Cup. Statute, in turn, was produced from the juvenile winner Nina, whose sire, Prince Galahad, won the 1919 Dewhurst Stakes. The next dam in Royal Statute’s tail-female line, unraced Giannina, was by John o’ Gaunt, an unsound horse who was runner-up in the 1904 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby Stakes but is best known as the sire of champion and important sire Swynford.
Last updated: May 7, 2026
Race record
8 starts, 1 win, 2 seconds, 0 thirds, US$9,490
As an individual
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Designated as a Reine-de-Course by pedigree analyst Ellen Parker, Royal Statute produced 10 named foals. Of these, eight started and seven won. Her important foals are as follow:
- Konafa (1973, by Damascus) ran second in the 1976 One Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1). She is the dam of 1994 Premio Umbria (ITY-G2) winner Proskona (by Mr. Prospector), 1999 Jacobs Goldene Peitsche (GER-G2) winner Keos (by Riverman), 1985 Prix Chloe (FR-G3) winner Korveya (by Riverman), and stakes winner Carnet Solaire (by Sharpen Up). She is the second dam of 1986 One Thousand Guineas winner and European champion 3-year-old filly Bosra Sham (by Woodman), 1990 French champion 2-year-old male and 1991 Poule d’Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand Guineas, FR-G1) winner Hector Protector (by Woodman), 1992 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Shanghai (by Procida), 2003 San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap (USA-G1) winner Passineti, and Grade/Group 2 winners Calista and Gaudeamus. Konafa is also the third dam of three-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty, champions California Memory and Rituss, and Grade/Group 1 winners Ciro, Internallyflawless, and Red Giant.
- Baederwood (1975, by Tentam) won half his 10 starts and became a useful sire in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, siring 16 stakes winners and 245 winners from 364 named foals of racing age.
- Royal Stance (1977, by Dr. Fager) never raced but is the dam of multiple Group 3 winner Majuscule (by Majestic Light), 1987 Falls City Handicap (USA-G3) winner Royal Cielo (by Conquistador Cielo), and multiple listed stakes winner Luhuk (by Forty Niner; an important sire in Argentina.
- Akureyri (1978, by Buckpasser) won the 1981 Fountain of Youth Stakes (USA-G3).
- Awaasif (1979, by Snow Knight) was the English champion 3-year-old filly of 1982 and the Italian champion older female of 1983. She is the dam of 1989 Gold Seal Oaks (ENG-G1) Snow Bride (by Blushing Groom); 1992 New Orleans Handicap (USA-G3) winner Jarraar (by Mr. Prospector), a successful though short-lived sire in Brazil; and 2002 Saranac Handicap (USA-G3) winner Ibn Al Haitham (by Zafonic). Through Snow Bride, Awaasif is the second dam of 1995 European champion 3-year-old male Lammtarra (by Nijinsky II) and 1998 Prix d’Aumale (FR-G3) winner Saytarra (by Seeking the Gold) and the third dam of 2012 Prix Jean Prat (FR-G1) winner Aesop’s Fables, 2017 Sydney Cup (AUS-G1) winner Polarisation, and French Group 3 winner Powder Snow.
- Royal Lorna (1981, by Val de l’Orne (FR)) won the 1984 Premio Bagutta (ITY-G3). She is the dam of 2000 Prix du Lys (FR-G3) winner Lycitus (by Lycius) and Australian listed stakes winner Forlorna (by Nashwan) and the second dam of 2002 Premio Roma (ITY-G1) winner Sunstrach and English Group 3 winner Music Box.
- Victoress (1984, by Conquistador Cielo) won one of her four starts. She is the second dam of 2011 Derby Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Pour Moi and Group 3 winners Dawn Patrol and Gagnoa
Connections
Foaled in Ontario, Royal Statute was bred and owned by E. P. Taylor. Her last foal was produced in 1987 but died unnamed.
Pedigree notes
Royal Statute is outcrossed through five generations. A full sister to three-time Canadian champion Dance Act and juvenile stakes winner North of the Law, she is also a full sister to Falafel, dam of 1985 Premio Parioli (Italian Two Thousand Guineas, ITY-G1) winner Again Tomorrow (by Honest Pleasure) and 1992 St. James’s Palace Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Brief Truce (by Irish River) and third dam of multiple Japanese Group 3 winner Makoto Brillar. Royal Statute is a half sister to juvenile stakes winner Down North (by Victoria Park) and to 1963 Canadian Oaks winner Menedict (by Ménétrier), second dam of 1988 Canadian champion 2-year-old male Mercedes Won and third dam of 2000 New Zealand Oaks (NZ-G1) winner She’s Country and Australian Group 3 winner Country Lane. Royal Statute is also a half sister to Canadian stakes winners Epic Queen (by Epic) and Court Royal (by Chop Chop) and to stakes-placed Queen’s Law (by Queen’s Own), dam of Canadian stakes winners Queen’s Splendour (by Impressive) and Queen’s Answer (by Northern Answer), second dam of Grade 2 winner With the Flow, and third dam of multiple Venezuelan Group 1 winner Mantle.
Queen’s Statute, the dam of Royal Statute and her sibs, was imported to Canada in 1956 after being purchased for E. P. Taylor for 3,500 guineas from the 1955 Tattersalls October yearling sale. Sired by 1946 Prix d’Arenberg winner Le Lavandou (by Djebel) out of the Son-in-Law mare Statute, she never raced but is a full sister to English stakes winner Grand Statute.
Queen’s Statute is out of the Son-in-Law mare Statute, winner of the 1939 Brighton Autumn Cup. Statute, in turn, was produced from the juvenile winner Nina, whose sire, Prince Galahad, won the 1919 Dewhurst Stakes. The next dam in Royal Statute’s tail-female line, unraced Giannina, was by John o’ Gaunt, an unsound horse who was runner-up in the 1904 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby Stakes but is best known as the sire of champion and important sire Swynford.
Last updated: May 7, 2026