Sea The Stars crowned champion racehorse, while Sinndar and Dalakhani's progeny also feature highly. Gilltown Stud resident SEA THE STARS received yet another accolade following his exceptional racing career when receiving a rating of 136 from the panel of international handicappers to top the World Thoroughbred Rankings for 2009. Unbeaten at three he won six races at Group One level and ...
HH the Aga Khan's Haras de Bonneval in Normandy opens its gates to the public on Saturday 30th January when stallions Sinndar and Linngari will be shown. Proven sire SINNDAR enjoyed yet another successful season in 2009 as his juvenile daughter ROSANARA, from his first French-born crop, lifted the Gr 1 Prix Marcel Boussac. Flagbearer Youmzain demonstrated his longevity when filling ...
Champion Hurdle in view for Zaynar, while Alaivan is already Triumph Hurdle favorite. Last season's Triumph Hurdle hero ZAYNAR has continued his progression and is now among the favorites for next March's Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival after extending his unbeaten hurdles sequence to five. The AK-bred ZAYNAR ran out the six-length winner of his seasonal debut and first meeting ...
Daryakana impressive winner of a strong Hong Kong Vase. HH Aga Khan has already enjoyed success as a breeder in Asia, notably through Dubai World Cup hero Daylami, but his famous green and red colours were carried to victory for the first time at the highest level by DARYAKANA in Sunday's Hong Kong Vase. The daughter of Selkirk and Prix de ...
This latest consignment of fillies and broodmares features Classic bloodlines rich in potential as breeding prospects. A total of 27 females from the Aga Khan Studs will go through Arqana's Deauville ring from 5th to 7th December. Many of the sixteen fillies out of training have proved their worth on the racecourse and are also closely related to winners at the ...
Half sisters to Sinndar, Azamour, Kalanisi, Kastoria, Edabiya are due to be presented at the Goffs November breeding stock sale over the weekend of 21st - 22nd November. This summer's Prix Morny winner Arcano and dual Gr 1 heroine Dar Re Mi are both progeny of AK-bred mares purchased at public auction and breeders will have the opportunity to invest in ...
Promising AK-breds catalogued at Goffs and Arqana, which sold Listed winner Mandali a year ago. The quintet of AK graduates due to pass through ARQANA's Saint Cloud ring feature some of the stud's leading bloodlines. Most are lightly or unraced, with the exception of TESHALI (Anabaa) who recently increased his winning tally to three with a victory at Saint Cloud. TESHALI ...
The Aga Khan Studs have set fees for their five stallions for the 2010 breeding season. In Ireland at Gilltown Stud, Dalakhani, the leading sire in Europe in 2009 (by % Stakes winners to runners) and sire of back to back Breeders' Cup Turf winner Conduit, will remain at €50,000 in 2010. Leading second crop sire by yearling average in 2009 ...
The Tsui family ended weeks of speculation today when they announced that they are going to stand their great Champion, Sea The Stars, at HH The Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud in Co. Kildare, Ireland. Possibly the greatest racehorse of all time Sea The Stars is a sensational looking and regally bred son of Cape Cross out of Urban Sea, who won ...
Five Group 1s among Arc weekend haul! HH Aga Khan enjoyed a spectacular weekend at Longchamp, with no less than seven Group successes over the two-day meeting. VARENAR had racing conditions to suit him in Saturday's feature Total Prix de la Forêt and was able to come from behind to pass the post first in the Gr 1 event. The son ...
Rosanara demonstrates precocity of sire while Youmzain proves his durability. The Aga Khan Studs' Sinndar was one of the success stories of Arc weekend at Longchamp. ROSANARA, a homebred filly from the stallion's first French-born crop, provided an all-important victory for her dual Derby and Arc winning sire in the Gr 1 Total Prix Marcel Boussac. This is the first top-level ...
The highly thought Varenar, recent 4th of the Gr 1 Prix de la Forêt, leads the AK consignment. Zaynar and Alpine Rose are the most recent examples of AK graduates presented at public sale to go on to register top-level success and buyers will have an opportunity to invest in more potential champions at ARQANA's forthcoming Arc sale. The AK Studs ...
Shahwardi, Behkabad and Rajsaman all score in Stakes contests. HH Aga Khan's French stable has been in fine form recently, enjoying three Stakes wins over the last week, in addition to Ashalanda's Gr 3 second in Italy. Progressive juvenile RAJSAMAN set the ball rolling on 18th September when successful in the Listed Criterium de Lyon. Alain de Royer Dupré's charge showed ...
A classy staying performance from John Oxx's four-year-old. ALANDI confirmed the promise he had shown over extended distances throughout this season when staying on well to take the Irish St Leger at the Curragh last weekend. Only once raced as a three-year-old, ALANDI has made solid progress throughout his three-year-old campaign which began with an easy victory in the Listed Vintage ...
Dalakhani leads the way with Stakes wins, while Azamour and Sinndar juveniles impress. CHINESE WHITE's victory in the Gr 2 Blandford Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday was the highlight of a prolific week for the Aga Khan Studs' stallions. The daughter of Dalakhani was winning her third consecutive pattern contest and is now firmly on course for the Prix de ...
The Aga Khan Studs have announced that Christophe Lemaire will be retained as their first jockey in France next season. He recently signed a one year contract with the Niarchos Family and they will have priority on his services in 2010. When the jockey is not riding for them, he will ride the Aga Khan Studs French trained horses. Christophe Lemaire ...
HH Aga Khan tops French standings and takes two Listed victories across the Channel. A prolific summer for the Aga Khan's French stable has seen the owner gain the lead in the French owners' standings with almost 1.5 million Euros in prize money. Representatives of the famous green and red silks have demonstrated an exceptional strike-rate, with 60 victories and 92 ...
The Aga Khan Studs have announced that Christophe Soumillon will not be retained to ride the Aga Khan owned horses in France after the 2009 flat racing season. After 8 years under contract as the first rider in France, it has been decided as human relations have become difficult and after mutual agreement, that his contract will not be renewed for ...
Armure and Shemima take 1 - 2 in Prix de Pomone and yearlings sell well at Deauville. Gilltown sire Dalakhani has enjoyed a successful weekend on the Normandy coast, with his daughters ARMURE and SHEMIMA battling out the finish of Saturday's feature Prix de Pomone. The tough and progressive ARMURE came out best by three quarters of a length to win ...
The unbeaten colt is stylish winner of Newbury Listed. HH Aga Khan's champion racehorse has made a promising debut to his stallion career with three individual winners to date and a Listed third among his first crop of juveniles. His son AZMEEL added to these honours on Saturday when taking the Listed Usk Valley Stud Stakes at Newbury. The talented Elsdon ...
Dalakhani, Sinndar and Azamour yearlings all feature in ARQANA catalogue. Dual Classic and King George-winning sire DALAKHANI is the most numerically represented in the August catalogue with ten yearlings entered and one of these will set the ball rolling for the sale as the first youngster to enter the ring. This beautifully-bred colt is a half-brother to dual Gr 3 scorer ...
The colt scores a third Gr 1 victory in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes. CONDUIT proved himself to be among the very best middle distance performers in the world with his scintillating win in Ascot's King George on Saturday. The progressive four-year-old had already picked up a pair of top-level wins in 2008 when taking Classic honours in ...
180,000€ Sceptre Rouge the highlight as all 12 individuals meet with success in the ring. Four of the five top lots at ARQANA's July sale of horses in training were consigned by HH Aga Khan, who ended the sale as leading vendor with his dozen representatives changing hands for a total of 688,000 € and an average of 57,333 €, more ...
Juvenile Carazam opens sire's account with debut success. Champion racehorse Azamour got off the mark as a stallion yesterday evening in Ireland as his son Carazam took the Thomastown Castle Stables Median Auction Maiden at Tipperary. The Tommy Stack-trained colt was sent off hot favourite for the seven and a half furlong contest, despite this being his first racecourse appearance. Carazam's ...
The Cheltenham Triumph Hurdle winner, Zaynar, was sold from the AK draft at this sale in 2008. The Aga Khan stable enjoys a reputation for selling stock which go on to perform at the highest level under both codes, as demonstrated recently by top-class individuals such as Zaynar, Zaiyad, Linngari and Tashelka. A classy consignment of 13 horses for ARQANA's forthcoming ...
HH The Aga Khan heads the French Owners' standings on number of successes. The victory of precocious SIYOUNI in Wednesday's Listed Prix la Flèche at Maisons-Laffitte is the highlight of an octet of French wins this week for the Aga Khan stable. SIYOUNI is now unbeaten in three outings and the son of Pivotal will have the Gr 2 Prix Robert ...
Four winners in three days for the Haras de Bonneval sire While Sinndar's flagbearer son Youmzain yet again proved himself to be of the very highest calibre with his valiant second by just a nose in the Gr 1 Coronation Cup at Epsom, the stallion's progeny have been successful over a variety of distances and company recently. Sinndar enjoyed a cross-card ...
Classic and Group seconds in Ireland and five out of five in France. Rayeni put up a most commendable performance when stepping up in class to take second place in the Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday. The John Oxx-trained son of Indian Ridge was racing for the first time since his juvenile victory in the Gr 3 Killavullen ...
The Aga Khan Studs are offering a second batch of well-bred individuals for private sale via their website. The highlight of the consignment is winning miler Zarkamar, a half-brother to the dam of Zarkava. The colt's half-siblings also include Gr 3 winner Zarkiya, pattern performer Zariyan and black-type hurdler Zarkali. 3yo Zarkamar is a son of Falbrav and winning mare Zarkana, ...
Baliyana takes the Gr 3 1,000 Guineas Trial and Duncan wins an Ascot Listed contest. Dual Classic-winning sire Dalakhani has been quick to build on his excellent results of 2008 and his progeny were back in the winners enclosure after Pattern races last weekend. The double was headed by HH Aga Khan's three-year-old filly BALIYANA who was a smooth winner of ...
His son among the top lots at €160,000€ 2009 will be an important year for AZAMOUR as his first juveniles are eagerly awaited on the racetrack. The progeny of HH Aga Khan's champion middle distance performer have already been sought after at public sales, with his first yearlings meeting with success in the ring last season at prices reaching 550,000€. AZAMOUR's ...
Shemima's Gr 3 win yet another for sire Dalakhani. Winner of the Gr 3 Prix de Lutèce and runner-up in the Gr 2 Prix Chaudenay over 15 furlongs each last season, SHEMIMA successfully dropped back to ten furlongs to take the Gr 3 Prix Allez France on her seasonal debut last week at Chantilly. Trainer Alain de Royer Dupré commented, "This ...
Dalakhani's son Kadabi takes the Prix de Pépinvast Hurdle at Auteuil. KADABI became the latest in a succession of former Aga Khan graduates to excel for his new connections when lifting Tuesday's Gr 3 contest against the best French hurdlers of his generation. He therefore follows in the footsteps of recent success stories under both codes such as Triumph Hurdle hero ...
Following the dual-purpose successes of Aga Khan graduates such as recent Triumph Hurdle hero Zaynar and Hong Kong Group 3 scorer Eyshal, as well as French champion hurdler Zaiyad and multiple Group winner TASHELKA, the Aga Khan Studs are now offering some 14 individuals for private sale on their website. The 14 three-year-olds include representatives of several leading Aga Khan families, ...
Zaynar wins Triumph Hurdle ahead of fellow AK-bred Mourad in third. ZAYNAR successfully defended his unbeaten record over timber on Friday to be crowned champion four-year-old hurdler in the famous Cheltenham arena. The blue-blooded ZAYNAR (Daylami) is out of 1998 Prix de Diane heroine Zainta (Kahyasi) and is a nephew of French champion hurdler Zaiyad (Sadler's Wells) so it is no ...
HH Aga Khan's recently retired Grand Prix de Paris winner Montmartre has been sold to the French National Studs in a deal brokered by Ghislain Bozo of Meridian International. Offers for the stallion were forthcoming from leading studs around the world, and in choosing the proposition of the Haras Nationaux, which will keep the future sire in France, HH Aga Khan ...
The Aga Khan Studs have announced that Montmartre, winner of the 2008 Grand Prix de Paris (Group 1), will not race again. 18th February 2009 - The Aga Khan Studs have announced that MONTMARTRE, winner of the 2008 Grand Prix de Paris (Group 1), will not race again, after a recurrence of his setback which prevented the colt from being trained ...
Successes on the flat and over jumps on both sides of the Channel. Aga Khan graduates look set to be particularly well-represented at next month's Cheltenham Festival, with more leading hopes demonstrating their talents in England and Ireland last weekend. The three AK winners in England were headed by the highly-esteemed ASHKAZAR. The runner-up in the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Hurdle ...
Zaynar, Ebadiyan and Simarian feature among the leaders of their generation. No less than three of Timeform's ten top-rated juvenile hurdlers were raised by the Aga Khan Studs. In the latest standings recent eight-length Ascot scorer ZAYNAR, who is unbeaten in two outings over timber, is judged to be the second best four-year-old hurdler. He has a rating of 143 with ...
Unbeaten Deem takes Gr 3 Cape Verdi Stakes Dalakhani has made an excellent start to the 2009 season as his daughter DEEM is the latest member of the sire's first crop to score at Group level. The grey four-year-old was making her debut on turf and a considerable step up in class when lining up in the Gr 3 Cape Verdi ...
