The Aga Khan Studs are supporting their roster of stallions with a number of leading names from the broodmare band in 2023. In France, SIYOUNI has led the sire standings for six consecutive seasons, and is well established as one of the top stallions in Europe. The Aga Khan Studs will be supporting him with another quality book of 22 mares, ...
Son of Dubawi and Zarkava to cover another full book in 2023. The breeding season has started at Haras de Bonneval, with the three resident stallions, DARIYAN, SIYOUNI and ZARAK, set to welcome many visiting mares in the months ahead. ZARAK in particular has again seen high demand this season, and will cover a full book of 120. This year will ...
Relations to a host of Stakes winners on offer at Goffs and Arqana. The upcoming February sales at Goffs and Arqana will comprise the first sales drafts of the year for the Aga Khan Studs, offering breeders access to a range of quality pedigrees just in time for the 2023 covering season. The catalogue for Goffs (8th to 9th February) will ...
French stallions impress the crowds on the Route des Etalons. Almost 300 people attended the open day at Haras de Bonneval on Saturday 21st January. The Aga Khan Studs' French-based stallions paraded during three set shows as part of the 2023 Route des Etalons. As the leading sire in France, SIYOUNI was the highlight for many of the visitors. Sire of ...
Amelia's Jewel becomes only the fourth filly ever to win the Gr.1 Northerly Stakes. Known as the West Australian wonder, Amelia's Jewel will now head east after a brilliant victory against her elders in the Gr.1 Northerly Stakes (formerly known as the Kingston Town Classic). The three-year-old SIYOUNI filly has now won six Stakes races from 1000m to 1800m for her ...
Sea The Stars half-sister to Shartash also a highlight at the Breeding Stock Sale. A daughter of the legendary racemare and Group 1 producer ZARKAVA and a half-sister to exciting 2023 prospect SHARTASH are among 29 fillies and mares set to form the Aga Khan Studs draft for the Arqana December Sale. In 2022, mares previously sold by the Aga Khan ...
Draft includes relations to many star performers. A draft of 25 fillies and mares from the Aga Khan Studs are among the highlights of the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale this year. Recent winners from Aga Khan mares sold at Goffs in previous years include Grade 1 winner Shantisara, whose dam Kharana sold at the Breeding Stock Sale of 2010, Gr.1 ...
The Aga Khan Studs are pleased to announce the 2023 nomination fees for their stallions standing at Haras de Bonneval in France and Gilltown Stud in Ireland. Gilltown Stud: SEA THE STARS - €180,000 Haras de Bonneval: SIYOUNI - €150,000 ZARAK - €60,000 DARIYAN - €5,000 SEA THE STARS has had another exceptional year on the track in 2022, with 22 ...
Half of the Aga Khan Studs HIT draft have won races in 2022. The Aga Khan Studs will present 14 horses in training at the Arqana Autumn Sale on Monday 14th November, over half of whom have won one or more races in 2022. Entered as a wildcard, lot 344, CARINI, is one of the highlights of the draft. The three-year-old ...
Sirjan heads successful weekend for rising star sire. Leading second crop sire ZARAK achieved his ninth Stakes winner over the weekend courtesy of two-year-old Sirjan, impressive four-and-a-half-length winner of the Gr.3 Premio Guido E Alessandro Berardelli at Capannelle on Sunday. The strikingly marked colt is out of Gr.1 winning dam Sortilege, who also has a yearling ZARAK filly, and is from ...
Zarak, Siyouni and Sea The Stars all post Stakes success. Leading young sire ZARAK achieved his eighth Stakes winner on Sunday courtesy of Times Square, who won the Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr at ParisLongchamp. The three-year-old filly, bred and owned by Allan Belshaw, was already twice Group 1 placed - in the Prix Marcel Boussac at two and the Poule d'Essai ...
Two-year-old Aga Khan homebred now unbeaten in three starts. RAJAPOUR maintained his unbeaten record and picked up his first piece of blacktype on Wednesday, with a two-length victory in the Listed Prix Isonomy at Deauville. The two-year-old son of Almanzor and Gr.2 winner RAYDARA, who is also a half-brother to Group-placed Ridenza, looks an exciting prospect for next season's Classics, having ...
October Sale has produced Stakes success in past. The week-long Arqana October Yearling Sale, starting on Monday 17th October, provides plenty of opportunity to acquire a yearling by an Aga Khan Studs sire. The sale has in the past produced the likes of Gr.1 winner Zelzal for SEA THE STARS, who has six yearlings catalogued this year including relations to his ...
Life In Motion and Flying Colours take second Stakes victories. SEA THE STARS enjoyed three Stakes winners in two days, with Babala becoming number 101 on Friday followed by Life In Motion and Flying Colours adding to their 2022 tally on Saturday. Three-year-old Babala won the Listed Prix Charles Lafitte at Compiegne for owner/breeders Wertheimer & Frère to become her sire's ...
Siyouni the third leading sire by average, Sea The Stars third by aggregate. The Aga Khan stallions were among the top sires during a strong renewal of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 1. SIYOUNI yearlings were particularly in demand, and he finished Book 1 as the third leading sire by average (more than one sold), with 18 yearlings selling for ...
The retainer is cease with immediate effect. Following last Friday's incident at Saint-Cloud, which resulted in the fall of Rossa Ryan, the Aga Khan Studs have taken the decision to cease their retainer with jockey Christophe Soumillon with immediate effect. From this week onwards, Soumillon may still ride in the Aga Khan silks on occasion at the discretion of the French ...
Gr.2 success for Erevann and Gr.1 glory for Sea La Rosa during exciting Arc weekend. Impressive Prix du Jockey Club winner VADENI proved the best of his generation in the Gr.1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the rain at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. The dual Group 1 winning colt finished a close second to five-year-old Alpinista, who incidentally is herself a ...
Dilawar and Rozgar entered in the Arc Sale. The Aga Khan Studs will offer two Stakes winners for sale on Saturday at the Arqana Arc Sale at Saint-Cloud. Both lot 21, ROZGAR, and lot 38, DILAWAR, have won multiple races and have also performed admirably in Group 1 company. Three-year-old ROZGAR, a son of Exceed And Excel out of a Stakes-placed ...
Two new winners in a day take Gilltown sire to 100. Gilltown Stud resident SEA THE STARS achieved his 99th and 100th Stakes winners in quick succession on Friday. In Australia, Desert Icon, originally bred in France by Ecurie des Monceaux but now in training with Chris Waller Racing, won the Gr.3 JRA Stakes at Moonee Valley. Just a couple of ...
The Aga Khan Studs stallions are well represented once again at the premier European yearling sales this autumn, starting with the Goffs Orby Sale from Tuesday 27th to Wednesday 28th September. Both SEA THE STARS and SIYOUNI are consistent sources of Group 1 winners, producing top-class performers every season for the past five years. Both have obliged again in 2022, with ...
Third two-year-old Group 1 winner for Siyouni. On a productive day at The Curragh for the Aga Khan silks on Irish Champions weekend, TAHIYRA stole the show with a scintillating performance in the Gr.1 Moyglare Stakes on just her second racecourse start. Always travelling smoothly, she won by two-and-a-quarter lengths ahead of the much more experienced favourite Mediate. TAHIYRA is a ...
10.5 furlongs no problem for son of Sea The Stars. Brilliant SEA THE STARS four-year-old Baaeed has been scintillating to watch over a mile both this year and last, but yesterday proved a step up to 10.5 furlongs was no problem with a dominating six-and-a-half-length victory over Mishriff in the Gr.1 Juddmonte International Stakes at York. In doing so, the unbeaten ...
Siyouni responsible for two of the four seven-figure sales. At the conclusion of the three-day Arqana August Yearling Sale, SIYOUNI was the star, responsible for the sale's top lot as well as another of the top four. Both were bred and consigned by leading vendor Ecurie des Monceaux. Lot 154, the flashy full brother to Sottsass, sold for €2.1 million to ...
New top lot as brother to Sottsass fetches €2.1 million. The leading French sire SIYOUNI was responsible for the top lot at day two of Arqana on Sunday, as the full brother to Classic and Arc winner Sottsass was knocked down for €2.1 million. The flashy chestnut from Ecurie des Monceaux is headed to Japan following his purchase by trainer Yoshito ...
Sea The Stars and Siyouni the leading sires by average. At the end of day one of the Arqana August Yearling Sale, the Aga Khan Studs stallions are responsible for three of the top six lots. Lot 133, a SEA THE STARS colt out of Listed winner Shamtee from the illustrious family of Helen Street, was the second top lot when ...
Siyouni, Sea The Stars and Zarak all well represented. The first major yearling sale of 2022 gets underway later this week with the Arqana August Sale, and as usual the Aga Khan Studs sires are represented by a choice of well-bred individuals. It is just seven years since SIYOUNI's first three-year-olds, conceived at a fee of €7,000, began to make waves, ...
Exciting son of Siyouni remains unbeaten. Haras d'Haspel homebred God Blessing was the front-running, one-and-a-half-length winner of the Listed Prix de Tourgeville at Deauville on Thursday, becoming the 64th Stakes winner for his sire SIYOUNI. The Damien de Watrigant-trained colt is now unbeaten in three starts and is one of eight Stakes winners from SIYOUNI's current three-year-old crop, which also includes ...
Dual Derby winner to stand at Kilbarry Lodge Stud. The Aga Khan Studs' dual Derby winner HARZAND has been sold and will continue his career at Kilbarry Lodge Stud in County Waterford. HARZAND retired to Gilltown Stud in 2017 after having won the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby. He was among the leading European sires of three-year-olds by percentage of winners ...
Daughter of Sea The Stars scores in Lillie Langtry. Sea La Rosa won her second Group race of the season on Saturday at Glorious Goodwood, bravely chasing down the long-time race leader Urban Artist to score by a length in the Gr.2 Lillie Langtry Stakes. The improving four-year-old daughter of SEA THE STARS, bred by G B Partnership together with Ecurie ...
Gilltown Stud sire edges closer to 100 milestone and achieves first Gr.1 win as broodmare sire. SEA THE STARS is having an excellent season both as a sire and as an emerging broodmare sire. The Gilltown Stud resident started this year on 86 lifetime Stakes winners. His tally now stands at 95 as he edges ever closer to the milestone of ...
Back to back Group 1 wins for the three-year-old colt. The three-year-old colt showed a strong turn of foot again to prevail against a competitive field in the Gr.1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown today. He was winning a second consecutive Group 1 following his five-length success in the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club last month. Positioned at the rear of the ...
Son of Invincible Spirit show off speed. SHARTASH demonstrated both a determined attitude and a strong turn of foot to win the Gr.2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh on Saturday, a first success for H.H. the Aga Khan in the prestigious two-year-old contest. The Invincible Spirit colt defeated the more experienced Ballydoyle runner Blackbeard, and in doing so became the first ...
Extensive choice of racing and breeding prospects on offer at Arqana. The Aga Khan Studs will consign another quality draft of 30 racing and breeding prospects at this year's Arqana Summer Sale. Already in 2022, the exploits of Gr.2 winner Irish Sequel (formerly Bashiyr), Stakes winners ZEYREK and DIAMIL and Gr.1 runner-up SHERAZ on the flat, and Gr.1 Irish Champion Hurdle ...
Zarak filly second by a short neck in Prix de Diane. ZARAK came within a short neck of a first crop Classic success in the Gr.1 Prix de Diane at Chantilly on Sunday, as his daughter La Parisienne narrowly lost out to the more experienced Nashwa. The filly's connections were in celebratory spirits after such an exciting finish. "I am overjoyed, ...
Classic winner for Siyouni and more Gr.1 glory for Sea The Stars miler. On Sunday, SIYOUNI filly Txope became her sire's sixth Classic winner when taking the Gr.2 German 1000 Guineas at Düsseldorf. The filly, bred by Haras Voltaire and sold for €310,000 as a yearling at Arqana, was a Listed winner and Group-placed at two. She is owned by Atlético ...
A treble of Aga Khan winners and a double for Zarak. The Aga Khan Studs enjoyed a fantastic streak of success on Sunday thanks to a treble of winners headed by VADENI and a double of Group winners for ZARAK. VADENI was a dominant winner of the Prix du Jockey Club when powering clear of his rivals to land the French ...
Baaeed brother the 17th Group 1 winner for Sea The Stars. Hukum became the 17th Group 1 winner for SEA THE STARS on Friday, powering clear in the Coronation Cup at Epsom to take the 12-furlong contest by more than four lengths, ahead of last year's winner Pyledriver. The five-year-old Shadwell homebred, who is the first Gr.1 winner for trainer Owen ...
Zagrey an easy winner of the 166e Derby du Midi. The Yann Barberot-trained Zagrey ran out a smooth winner of the Listed 166e Derby du Midi on Saturday at Bordeaux-le-Bouscat on his first try over 1900m. Co-owned by his breeder Jean-Paul Challet and Gérard Augustin-Normand, the colt is a half-brother to Gr.1 performer Graignes and recent Listed-placed Anatiya (DARIYAN). He becomes ...
Gilltown Stud sire edges closer to 100 Stakes winners. In just 11 days, SEA THE STARS has sired seven Stakes winners (including Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes hero Baaeed), and has been the broodmare sire of a further three. After Ottoman Fleet became his sire's 90th Stakes winner on 14th May, SEA THE STARS has added three more Listed winners to his tally. ...
Superstar miler caps excellent week for Sea The Stars. Baaeed's scintillating performance in the Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes on Saturday was the highlight of an excellent week for Gilltown Stud resident SEA THE STARS. The Shadwell homebred won his third Group 1 over a mile by three-and-a-quarter lengths, to remain unbeaten in seven starts and confirm himself as one of the most ...
