Zarkava's class shone through in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp on Sunday. ZARKAVA justified her lofty reputation with a stunning performance to lift the mile Classic. Settled in the second half of the field as the leading fillies set a scorching gallop in the early stages of the contest, ZARKAVA was asked by Christophe Soumillon to make her move ...
Arc winner's son Centennial lifts Gr 3 Classic Trial. CENTENNIAL confirmed himself as a live contender for the Epsom Derby with his front-running victory in Saturday's Classic Trial at Sandown. The dark grey colt held on by a neck from the fast-finishing Whistledownwind to score in the nine-runner contest. He was making a successful seasonal debut after a progressive juvenile campaign ...
The Aga Khan's filly sailed to an effortless win in Sunday's Prix de la Grotte. ZARKAVA was judged leading European juvenile filly in 2007 thanks to a spectacular victory in the Gr 1 Prix Marcel Boussac. On her eagerly-awaited reappearance, the daughter of Zamindar showed that she is better than ever as a three-year-old. ZARKAVA left an indelible impression upon racegoers ...
Triple Group 1 winning miler looks sure to stay further. The Princess Zahra Aga Khan's filly delighted connections with an exhilarating performance in the $5 million Dubai Duty Free. After racing in mid-division, the daughter of Zamindar showed her customary turn of foot under Christophe Soumillon to reach the head of affairs in the straight. DARJINA took the lead around a ...
Top European filly Darjina and dual Nad Al Sheba winner Mourilyan line up on Dubai World Cup night. Princess Zahra Aga Khan's DARJINA is set to tackle the $5 million Dubai Duty Free over 1777m on Saturday's international card. This will be the first time that the filly has raced over further than eight furlongs. The Alain de Royer Dupré-trained daughter ...
Representatives at the Festival will include Afsoun, Ashkazar, Ebaziyan and Serabad. The versatility of the Aga Khan's breeding operation is illustrated by a strong Cheltenham Festival team of former carriers of the famous green and red silks. Afsoun goes into the Festival in good form, having picked up the Gr 2 Contenders Hurdle at Sandown on his last outing. The son ...
The son of Desert Prince took his winning streak to four when scoring in the Mustaqbali Handicap on Thursday's Nad Al Sheba card. Four-year-old MOURILYAN is HH Aga Khan's only representative to date at the 2008 Dubai Carnival and his campaign has been faultless so far. He opened his account in Dubai with an easy win in the Dubal Casthouse Handicap ...
Afsoun and Ashkazar both scored over hurdles at Sandown, while Serabad finished second in a Cheltenham Gr 2. Kahyasi's son AFSOUN confirmed his status as one of the best hurdlers trained in Britain with his three and a half length win over Straw Bear in the Gr 2 totepool Contenders Hurdle. The six-year-old was registering his fifth career success over timber ...
The families of Sinndar, Shergar and Darshaan are represented in forthcoming sales at Doncaster, Goffs and Arqana. Seven AK-bred three-year-old colts from John Oxx's Currabeg Stables will go under the hammer during Doncaster's horses in training sale on 31st January. These feature the un-raced trio Elbistan (Lot 477), a Peintre Célèbre son of a winning full sister to Irish Oaks and ...
The Aga Khan Studs has decided to withdraw their horses in training with André Fabre. Approximately 30 horses will be redistributed amongst the Aga Khan's existing trainers: Alain de Royer Dupré, Jean-Claude Rouget and Guy Henrot. The Aga Khan Studs will also send about 10 horses each to Richard Gibson and Mikel Delzangles. This will be the first time that either ...
The Aga Khan's Zarkava is Europe's highest-rated juvenile filly, while Princess Zahra Khan's Darjina was awarded top rating in the three-year-old turf filly category. ZARKAVA's two and a half length success in the Gr 1 Prix Marcel Boussac was judged to be the best performance of 2007 by a juvenile filly. She has been rated 119, 6lb higher than Conference Call ...
The colt has been bought by the same connections as Aga Khan-bred Shamdinan who went on to win the Gr 1 Secretariat Stakes last year. SHEDIAK was one of France's leading juveniles in 2007 during a season which saw the André Fabre-trained colt win on his debut at Deauville in August. This victory was followed by a close second place in ...
The Aga Khan ends the 2007 season as champion owner in France with a total of just under 3.5 million Euros in prize money. The 106 thoroughbreds to have carried the famous green and red silks over the past 12 months have passed the post first on 89 occasions to accumulate 3,460,298 Euros including owners' premiums. The Aga Khan's highest earner ...
Azamour's first foals to be sold at public auction were highly sought-after at Goffs. Among the 16 foals presented at the November Foal Sale, 11 were sold for a total of 807,000€. This figure represents an average of 73,000€ which is almost triple their sire's fee. Three foals reached the 100,000€ mark and the hammer came down at 120,000€ for Lot ...
An outstanding consignment of 30 well-bred fillies and broodmares from the Aga Khan Studs proved to be popular at Goffs sale of Broodmares and Fillies in late November. All but three of the mares were bought for a total of almost 1.5 million Euros and an average of €55,000. Top-priced Saga Célèbre, a Peintre Célèbre daughter of the full-sister to Arc ...
Aga Khan graduates to have changed hands in the Saint Cloud ring include current French champion hurdler Zaiyad and Behnasan. Ten promising two and three-year olds from the yards of Alain de Royer Dupré and André Fabre are set to go under the hammer on 19th November. Among these are: KASRAWAD (lot 33), a winning Barathea half-brother to Irish St Leger ...
The Aga Khan's consignment provided a boost for the recent Goffs horses in training sale in Ireland and purchasers will have a chance to pick up some equally well-bred prospects at the forthcoming ARQANA autumn sale. The eight-strong draft from the stable of John Oxx fetched a total of 420,000 € and included sales-topper ZARALABAD who was purchased for 95,000 € ...
His son Top of the Sky lifetd the Gr.1 Prix Maurice Gillois 4yo Champion Chase at Auteuil on Sunday. The versatility of KAHYASI as a sire was proven yet again at Auteuil on Sunday as his son Top of the Sky lifted the Gr.1 Prix Maurice Gillois four-year-old champion chase. Top of the Sky was contesting only his third race over ...
The Aga Khan-bred Zaiyad recorded an historic win at Auteuil on Saturday. The six year old cantered to a second successive victory in the Grand Prix d'Automne (Autumn Champion Hurdle) to add to his crown in last June's Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil (French Champion Hurdle). The talented jumper possesses exceptional class on the flat as he demonstrated when accelerating effortlessly ...
The Aga Khan Studs have set their 2008 stallion fees. Standing at Gilltown Stud, in Ireland: AZAMOUR: €25,000 (1st Oct) DALAKHANI: €40,000 (1st Oct) Standing at Haras de Bonneval, in France: Kahyasi: €6,000 (1st Oct) SINNDAR: 20,000 (1st Oct) If you wish to see our stallions our team will be glad to arrange a visit for you. Simply contact Haras de ...
A new star emerged for HH AK's stable at Longchamp on Sunday. Zarkava stepped up in class to land the Gr 1 Prix Marcel Boussac, effortlessly leaving a talented field trailing in her wake. Zarkava repaid the confidence of her connections who had supplemented the once-raced maiden winner into France's top juvenile fillies' event following an impressive gallop earlier in the ...
Dalakhani's progeny continue their good run of form with CENTENNIAL recently bringing his winning tally to two to maintain a healthy results ratio for his first season sire. DALAKHANI has sired seven winners of eight races for a strike-rate of 55%. His best progeny to date looks to be the Dermot Weld-trained CHINESE WHITE, described by the Racing Post as having ...
Sinndar and Kahyasi had a successful weekend with progeny Four Sins and Varevees both scoring at Group level. FOUR SINS is a three-year-old daughter of dual Derby winner and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Sinndar. Bred in Germany by Graf & Grafin Von Stauffenberg before being purchased for 120,000 € by Gilltown Stud on behalf of HH the Aga Khan ...
Darjina defeated a high-class opposition to score in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and establish herself as a force to be reckoned with against Europe's best milers. Princess Zahra Aga Khan's three-year-old was facing her male counterparts for the first time in the Group 1 event however she won more impressively than she had done when taking the Prix d'Astarté ...
Thanks to the recent double of Behrar and Chinese White, champion racehorse Dalakhani now boasts an enviable record of 50% winners/runners for his first crop as a sire. BEHRAR provided a first French success for his Arc-winning sire at Fontainebleau on 8th September. The bay homebred carried the Aga Khan's colours to a one length-victory in the Prix des Roses maiden ...
The Aga Khan Studs has put two stallion prospects Visindar and Daramsar on the Aga Khan Studs website for private sale. This represents a unique opportunity for the bloodstock community to buy two successful racehorses that come from strong, Group 1 producing families. VISINDAR won three races in his five race career including the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe by 4 lengths ...
The Aga Khan's stallions will be well represented at Europe's leading sales over the next few weeks. 22 yearlings in Arqana's Deauville catalogue are progeny of Aga Khan Stud sires. These include five by Dalakhani, who has made a very promising start to his new career with three winners to date from nine individuals to have raced. Last August five of ...
Dalakhani scored a double with his progeny at the weekend to enter the first-season sire scoresheet in style. The Aga Khan Studs stallion's first win as a sire came on Saturday 4th August as his son Unwritten Rule lifted the Dawn Juice EBF Maiden at Galway. This victory was followed less than 24 hours later with the success of Yahrab in ...
Darjina stamped herself the best female miler in Europe with victory in a highly competetive edition of the Group 1 Prix d'Astarté at Deauville on 29th July. In doing so she followed in the footsteps of stablemate MANDESHA, whose Astarté win last year was the first of a Group 1 treble completed by the Prix Vermeille and Prix de l'Opera. DARJINA ...
A successful week for the Aga Khan's horses in France finished particularly well at Deauville on Sunday with three " green and red " victories to add to that of Darjina in the Prix d'Astarté. SAGEBURG, a son of Johannesburg and Prix de Malleret winner Sage et Jolie, is now unbeaten in three outings after lifting the Listed Prix Ridgway by ...
Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Darjina will seek to return to winning ways in the Prix d'Astarté at Deauville on 29th July. After her courageous win over Finsceal Beo in the Longchamp Classic, Darjina finished third in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on rain-softened ground. Alain de Royer Dupré's charge will meet her elders for the first time in the ...
The Aga Khan family currently leads the French owners' standings when earnings from representatives of HH the Aga Khan and his daughter Princess Zahra are cumulated. HH the Aga Khan's green and red colour-bearers have won a total of 41 races so far this season, with Princess Zahra's green and brown silks passing the post first on 6 occasions, giving total ...
The ten-strong AK horses in training consignment from John Oxx's Currabeg Stables proved to be popular at Tattersalls July sale with all the horses finding buyers for a total of 215,900 Guineas. The top price of 85,000 Guineas was attained by SHABAHAR (Lot 762). This Hernando colt is from the family of Shergar, and his second dam Sharamana was the winner ...
Six of the seven Aga Khan horses presented at Arqana's Summer Sale met with success in the ring, for a total of 129,000€. Most look to be destined for a career over jumps, where they will try and emulate recently-sold Aga Khan Stud graduates such as Afsoun (Gr 1 Champion Hurdle and Aintree Hurdle second), Zaiyad (Gr 1 Grande Course de ...
The Aga Khan Studs will present nine horses at the Tattersalls Horses In Training sale at Newmarket on 12th July. These include ALMANYAN, an Anabaa half-brother to Alamshar who has already been placed, and the unraced Velkhar, a half-brother to Gr 1 winners Valanour and Vereva by King's Best. SHABAHAR (Hernando), who is from the family of Shergar, and RAJNAGAN (Muhtarram) ...
Karasi, a 12 year old gelding by Kahyasi out of Karamita scored an unprecedented third straight victory in the $1,481,000 Nakayama Grand Jump, the world's richest steeplechase, in Japan on Saturday. KARASI, trained by Eric Musgrave and bred by the Aga Khan Studs, was formerly trained in the UK by Sir Michael Stoute where he won 3 races before being purchased ...
Azamour's first foal arrived on 13th January at Yeomanstown Stud in Ireland; she was a bay filly out of the Stakes winner Bakewell Tart. Since then many more AZAMOUR foals have been born, all being bay, like the sire himself and he is stamping his stock as strong, attractive individuals. His first foals include a filly out of multiple Stakes winner ...
Pearl Sky, a 4yo daughter of Kahyasi, easily took the first European Group race of the year, the competitive Gr.3 Prix Exbury at Saint Cloud on March 10th. The going was officially heavy but that did not affect Pearl Sky and she won easily by five lengths beating several stakes winners, notably Montare, Bellamy Cay, Freedonia, Elasos and Runaway. This was ...
We have updated the website with the AK owned horses due to be presented at the forthcoming Goffs and Arqana Deauville February mixed sales. Goffs February mixed draft of 2 geldings, 4 colts and a filly includes Kalamkar, a Stakes performer and a half brother to Kalanisi and Takestan, a winner and placed from only 2 starts in 2006. Arqana's interesting ...
The first foal by multiple Group 1 winner and champion AZAMOUR arrived on 13th January at Yeomanstown Stud in Ireland. The new born is a bay colt bred by Yeomanstown Stud and is out of the Stakes winner Bakewell Tart (Tagula ex Almond Flower by Alzao). The 7 year old mare is also an own sister to Stakes winner Macaroon. David ...
