Sinndar's exceptionally talented daughter Shawanda added the Group 1 Prix Vermeille to her easy victory in the Irish Oaks at Longchamp on Sunday. The manner in which she cruised home suggests that she will present a strong threat to some of the best colts in Europe, amongst them the Aga Khan's quadruple Group 1 winning 4 year old colt, Azamour, when ...
Four yearlings, all out of Stakes winning dams, have been consigned to the Goffs Orby Million Sale, from the Haras du Val Henry in Normandy. A Rock of Gibraltar filly out of Prix de l'Opera winner Clodora (Linamix) and a half sister to Clodovil is the first of these, Lot 150. Lot 188 is a French bred Danehill colt out of ...
Lot 20, a DAYLAMI filly out of Wide Range, a half sister to Great Voltigeur Stakes winner Air Marshall, is the first of 10 Aga Khan sired yearlings to be offered at the Kill venue. A half brother to Multiple Group winner Decorated Hero, Lot 101, is the other Daylami yearling selling. KALANISI is represented by 3 colts; Lot 50, a ...
In an analysis of sires by the % of runners rated 100+ by Timeform, Linamix comes out on top - almost 40% of Linamix sired runners are rated 100+. Looking at the % of runners rated 115+, Linamix also tops the tables at 15.2%, further proof of his ability to consistently produce Group performers. Linamix is currently the highest earning stallion ...
The Aga Khan stallions are represented by 8 yearlings in the forthcoming Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale. DAYLAMI has just one representative, Lot 23, a filly out of Beeper the Great from the family of recent Royal Whip Stakes winner Tropical Lady. KAHYASI has two selling, Lot 279, a colt out of the Gulch mare All Our Hope, and Lot 613, ...
Intercontinental, whose dam, Hasili, is by leading broodmare sire Kahyasi, won the Grade 2 Palomar Breeders' Cup over 12 furlongs in the States at the weekend. In doing so she beat the French bred Amorama by a length and a quarter, having finished a length behind her to take third place in the Grade 1 John c Mabee Handicap last time ...
In Germany, the BBAG yearling catalogue (2nd-3rd September) offers 3 colts by the consistent sire of Stakes winners KAHYASI , including Lot 5 out of a Listed winning Machiavellian mare from the family of Laveron, and lot 246, a half brother to the Group 3 winner Tareno. Lot 78 is a LINAMIX colt out of an Acatenango winning dam whose first ...
Bye Bye Loev was an easy 4 length winner of the Norsk Derby, at Ovrevoll on Sunday. Bred by Italy's Scuderia San Pancrazio and owned by Petter Solberg and Nils Petter Gill, the Sinndar colt is trained in Chantilly by Mikel Delzangles and had a short spell with Arnfinn Lund before his Derby win. A €70 000 yearling purchase from the ...
Linamix progeny gained further blacktype over the weekend, with Jagger winning the Listed Blue Square Handicap at Chester and Reefscape finishing runner-up to Alcazar in the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay at Deauville. At the Agence Francaise August Yearling Sale on Sunday evening Paul Webber had to go to €260 000 to secure the Linamix filly out of Gontcharova (Lot 79) consigned ...
Champion Stakes and Breeders' Cup Turf winner Kalanisi scored another victory with his first crop of 2 year olds when European Dream ran third time lucky to break his maiden at Newcastle on Friday. John Cena is already a dual winner for his sire in Italy, while his daughters Faster Sara and Casata have both won in Scandinavia, and there is ...
A half sister to Grand Lodge, the ever consistent Daylami filly La Persiana (La Papagena by Habitat) won the Listed Upavon Fillies Stakes at Salisbury yesterday. La Persiana has never been out of the first 3 in Group or Listed company, and challenged 2 furlongs out to lead home Bon Nuit and Something Exciting over the 10 furlong trip. Congratulations to ...
Rated 126, Azamour is currently the highest rated horse in Europe and lies 2nd behind Ghostzapper (128) in the World Rankings to 31st July. Azamour shares his 126 rating with Motivator and Shamardal. Given that Ghostzapper and Shamardal have both been retired from racing, the likely clash of Motivator and Azamour in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown will be one ...
This year's Deauville August Yearling catalogue offers plenty of opportunities to acquire quality stock by the Aga Khan stallions, a total of 12 colts and 13 fillies to be precise. There are 3 DAYLAMI colts on offer, including a half brother to the Gr3 winner Perfect Hedge (216) and a colt out of stakes winner Magic Play (375). LINAMIX is well ...
Proclamation's emphatic win in yesterday's Sussex Stakes proved yet again the merits of the Aga Khan's meticulously planned breeding programme. The King's Best colt is out of an unraced Aga Khan bred mare, Shamarra (Zayyani), who hails from the family of Champion miler Sendawar. Congratulations to Proclamation's trainer Jeremy Noseda, owner Princess Haya of Jordan, and to his breeder, Cahal Ryan ...
Leading sire in France by prize money won, Linamix has also proven himself a top class broodmare sire. Bred by Lagardere Elevage, the dual Group 1 winner Valixir was the result of a Trempolino covering of the Linamix mare Vadlamixa. He won his prep race for Deauville's Prix Jacques le Marois when cantering out the easy winner of the Group 3 ...
The Aga Khan bred Ansar once again brought home Ireland's summer steeplechase showpiece, the Galway Plate, in a decisive 7 length defeat of his rivals at the Festival meeting yesterday. The nine year old son of Kahyasi, from the family of Azamour, produced a strong finishing uphill gallop to win for a seventh time at the Galway Festival. Ansar's dam, Anaza ...
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when breaking the track record to win the Gr. 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. Azamour yet again proved his talent and versatility to beat a high class field of Group 1 winners in the King George. Already a Group 1 winner over a mile and a mile and a quarter, he finished superbly over his first mile ...
Following Shawanda's success in the Irish Oaks last Sunday, Sinndar has moved up to 3rd place in the Leading Second Crop Sires in Europe list, ranked by prize money won. The only 2 stallions ahead of him are Montjeu and Giant's Causeway, and Sinndar has scored an impressive 25 wins from 51 runners. Sendawar is the Leading Second Crop Sire in ...
JOHN CENA became the second of Kalanisi's first crop to win when the 2 year old colt out of Dekobra won the Premio Colico Maiden at San Siro last week over 1500m. Dekobra is an 8 year old Night Shift mare under Italian ownership and trained by Bruno Grizzetti just outside Milan. Updated 19/07/2005. ...
The progeny of Sinndar excelled themselves on Oaks weekend at the Curragh, scoring 2 Group successes in 2 days with Moonlight Dance (ex Style of Life) and Shawanda (ex Shamawna). SHAWANDA won the Irish Oaks, her first Group 1 outing, in remarkable style. Sitting comfortably in mid-division until the final straight, she accelerated easily and cruised down the straight to outclass ...
Sinndar's daughter Shawanda has been supplemented to the Irish Oaks after pleasing her trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre in her work-out yesterday morning. A further supplement to the race from The Aga Khan stables is the John Oxx trained Hazariya, winner of the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes last time out, however stablemate Behkiyra is unlikely to run at this stage. Pictavia ...
Held up from behind for most of the race, Starpix's late surge from the back of the field came just a fraction too late to catch Turtle Bowl in the final furlong of the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly yesterday. Unlucky in his Group 3 Prix de la Jonchere encounter with Turtle Bowl, when stumbling badly and losing forward ...
Vol de Nuit, the 4 year old Linamix colt out of Bedside Story ran a tight second to Electrocutionist in the Gran Premio di Milano GR1 at San Siro on 19th June for trainer Lorenzo Brogi. The winner held off by barely a length to win this 12 furlong contest. Vol de Nuit suffered a similar narrow defeat by Coral Eclipse ...
Sinndar's daughters Pictavia and Shawanda may well both contest the forthcoming Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh. Shawanda's trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre is likely to supplement the filly if everything continues to go well with her preparation. Winner of the GR 3 Prix de Royaumont last time out, Shawanda is out of the Darshaan mare Shamawna and has the Prix Vermeille ...
The Aga Khan bred Azamour and Daylami's son Grey Swallow are both currently rated 128, along with Vinnie Roe, on Timeform's Top Rated Older Horses latest listing. The Lagardere bred Valixir, recently acquired by the Aga Khan, has been rated 129 following his Ascot success, leaving only Silent Witness, Roses in May and Rakti ahead of him on a rating of ...
Champion Miler Sendawar's first crop of 3 year olds have now won 22 individual races to date in 2005, thanks to Sendalam's victory at the end of June. This keeps him at the top of the list of Leading Second Crop Sires in France. Sendawar's fee at Haras de Bonneval in Normandy is €4000. Updated 04/07/2005. ...
Intercontinental (by Danehill out of the Kahyasi mare Hasili) won the Grade 3 Royal Heroine Invitational Stakes yesterday at Hollywood Park in the US. Owned and bred by Juddmonte Farms, this 5 year old mare has rarely finished unplaced and beat Ticker Tape and Etoile Montante to win last year's Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes in fine style. Meanwhile, the winning Grand ...
The 2yo Kalanisi filly Casata, out of La Menorquina, won her maiden over 51/2 furlongs in the first juvenile race of the year at Klampenborg Racecourse in Copenhagen recently, to give the son of Doyoun his first winner. Trained by F. Reuterskiold at Sweden's southern-most racetrack, Jagersro, the Irish foaled Casata was bought at Goffs February Sale in 2004 for €25 ...
The Aga Khan owned Valixir, a late supplement to the Queen Anne Stakes, put in a fine performance at York yesterday to beat the favourite Rakti by one and a half lengths. Trainer Andre Fabre's relationship with Valixir's owner is a relatively new one and in the aftermath of his Group 1 victory, His Highness rated him "an outstanding trainer". Jockey ...
Azamour notched up yet another Group 1 victory in the GR 1 Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot at York this afternoon under Mick Kinane. He settled early in the race and while Ace challenged early on the straight, Azamour kept on coming and finished strongly, leaving the rest of the field strung out behind him. The 4 year old ...
Pictavia, who finished strongly behind Eswarah in the Oaks at Epsom last week, will now contest the Irish equivalent at the Curragh in July it has been confirmed. Trainer Jim Bolger has opted not to run her in the Ribblesdale at Royal Ascot next week in favour of the Fillies Classic in Ireland. In France, The Aga Khan's Vadawina is a ...
Fracassant added to his blacktype performances at the weekend with a 2nd in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly on Sunday. Narrowly denied victory by Geordieland, who he beat last time out to win the Group 3 Prix D'Hedouville in early May, Fracassant has been placed in all his stakes runs to date this year. Updated 07/06/2005. ...
San Siro on Sunday evening was the setting for a tight finish between Vigata, La Persiana and Wood Quay in the Group 3 Premio Paolo Mezzanotte, with just half a length separating the Valfredo Valiani trained winner from Daylami's daughter. Bred by Plantation Stud out of the Habitat mare La Papagena, La Persiana is a half sister to Grand Lodge and ...
Epsom Derby weekend, 5 years ago, and Sinndar won the great race in convincing style. 5 years on and his daughter Shawanda proved her class by running out the easy winner of the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont during heavy showers at Chantilly on Saturday, leaving Royal Highness 2 and a half lengths behind. Winner of 3 of her 4 starts, ...
Fraloga (Grand Lodge-Fragrant Hill) and Shawanda (Sinndar-Shamawna) are both due to contest the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont at Chantilly this Saturday, while the 4yo Fracassant (Linamix-Fragrant Hill) is due to run in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly on Sunday. All 3 won last time out. Updated 01/06/2001 ...
Prix Ganay runner up Reefscape (Linamix-Coraline) faces a field of 9 in Friday's Coronation Cup at Epsom. The Ganay being his only outing to date this season, he closed his 2004 season with a Group 2 win at Longchamp and has only once finished unplaced from a total of 8 starts. Updated 01/06/2005. ...
Oaks hopeful Pictavia has been confirmed as on target for this weekend by trainer Jim Bolger, who believes that the step up in trip from her Newmarket 1000 Guineas run will be in her favour. Can Sinndar's daughter clinch Group 1 victory this year after her 2nd in the Moyglare in 2004? All eyes on Epsom. Updated 01/06/2005 ...
Hazariya won the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial Fillies Stakes at Gowran Park yesterday from the Dermot Weld trained Mermaid Island. Owned and bred by HH The Aga Khan Studs, she may now be supplemented for the Irish Oaks, with the Pretty Polly Stakes at the end of June another likely target. Updated 30/05/2005 ...
The Daylami sired Grey Swallow added the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup to his 2004 Irish Derby win when leading one of the most high class Gold Cup fields of recent times to beat Bago by 3/4 length at The Curragh last Sunday. Daylami has sired 13 individual winners to date in 2005 and all eyes will now be on the ...
