The Weekly Wrap: Fathers and Sons
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TUESDAY, 18 AUGUST 2020 THE WEEKLY WRAP: FIVE FACE GHAIYYATH IN JUDDMONTE INTERNATIONAL FATHERS AND SONS Godolphin=s MG1SW Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), who defeated dual G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) when last seen in the G1 Coral-Eclipse S. at Sandown in early July, faces just five opponents in the G1 Juddmonte International S. at York on Aug. 19. However, four of the quintet have also won at the highest level. Ghaiyyath faces the Qatar Racing pair of MG1SW Kameko (Kitten=s Joy), who won the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas this term, as well as G3 Musidora S. heroine Rose of Kildare (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}), brilliant G1 Prince of Wales=s S. victor Lord North (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), MG1SW Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), and German Group 1 winner Aspetar (Fr) (Al Kazeem {GB}). AWe had a front-runner in Meydan [in the G3 Dubai Millennium S. in February] thinking we=d be happy to take a lead, but they just aren=t quick enough to be able to lead him,@ Appleby told the QIPCO British Champions Series of this year=s Saint Laurence, by Dubawi=s son Al Kazeem | Racingfotos.com G1 Coronation Cup S. and G1 Coral-Eclipse S. hero. Cont. p4 By Emma Berry Dubawi (Ire) being a good stallion is not exactly a newsflash. The increasingly interesting element of his success, however, is his growing number of sons and grandsons making a mark at stud. Dubawi's own season has been headlined by the Group 1 winners Ghaiyyath (Ire), Lord North (Ire) and Space Blues (Ire), while G2 Superlative S. winner Master Of The Seas (Ire) looks to be one of the more exciting juveniles seen out in Europe so far. In this year's freshman sires' championship, Ballylinch Stud's son of Dubawi, New Bay (GB), remains an interesting lurker with the best strike-rate of the lot, his seven winners coming from only 14 runners. Meanwhile his stud-mate and Dubawi's grandson Make Believe (GB) has leapfrogged Night Of Thunder (Ire) in the Ghaiyyath | Scoop Dyga second-crop sires' table, with his standard-bearer Mishriff (Ire) adding the G2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano to his Classic success in the Prix du Jockey Club. Darley's Night Of Thunder is holding his own, however, and IN TDN AMERICA TODAY good results keep coming from the Dubawi sireline in a number TDN DERBY TOP 12 FOR AUG. 18 of directions. Last Friday Night Of Thunder was represented by a All of the qualifying races have been run for the GI Kentucky new stakes winner in Stormy Girl (Ire), who won the Highfield Derby, and T. D. Thornton has the latest TDN Derby Top 12. Click Farm Flying Fillies' S. at Pontefract to give trainer Rebecca or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Menzies her first stakes success. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 18 AUGUST 2020 position of his runners is the G1 King George and Queen Elizabeth S winner Poet's Word (Ire), now himself at Boardsmill Stud in Ireland. While Craig Bernick's filly One Voice (Ire)--an inspired Goffs Sportsman's Sale purchase at i55,000--has been knocking on the Group 1 door this season and is already a Group 3 winner, another of Poet's Voice's daughters, Song Of Life (GB), landed her 10th victory and first black-type success when winning the Listed Grosser Sparkassenpreis at Dusseldorf on Saturday. She was also runner-up in the G3 Sparkasse Fathers & Sons Cont. from p1 Holstein-Cup last month. Dubawi's Haras du Logis-based son Hunter's Light (Ire) was Poet's Voice spent five years shuttling to Australia and one of also on the score sheet in Deauville when notching his first the products of those stints became his latest Group 1 winner in group success with Irska (Fr), the Markus Nigge-bred and Singapore over the weekend. The former Godolphin runner -trained winner of the G3 Prix de Lieurey. Aramaayo (Aus) landed the G1 Kranji Mile (and has rather Saint Lawrence (Ire), who, like his sire Al Kazeem (GB), was rather mysteriously gained an extra 'a' in this name since he bred at Oakgrove Stud in Wales, took Saturday's Listed Denford raced in Australia as Aramayo). Stud S. for his owner-breeder John Deer. He is one of just 27 Despite his Australian birth, the 5-year-old, who was foals from the stallion's largest runner-up in the G1 Spring crop born in 2018. Champion S. when trained by The brilliant Al Kazeem, James Cummings, represents a winner of four Group 1s for family with deep British roots Deer and Roger Charlton, had a as Aramaayo is out of Peruvian two-part racing career after he (GB), an unraced Diktat (GB) returned to Beckhampton half-sister to In The Wings (GB). when his compromised fertility He is one of many good horses cut short his tenure at the to have Dubawi's fourth dam Royal Studs. The Deers' Sunbittern (GB) (Sea Hawk {Fr}) persistence with their on both sides of their champion at Oakgrove, where pedigrees. A common source of he has now completed five this duplication comes about seasons, is to their credit. when Dubawi covers mares by Despite his small foal crops, the The late Poet=s Voice | Darley In The Wings' son Singspiel 12-year-old stallion has Group (Ire), which has been a notably 1 winner Aspetar (Fr), who was bred by Sheikh Mohammed Bin successful nick and has been responsible for the Group 1 Khalifa Al Thani, who has clearly been a believer in Al Kazeem winners Too Darn Hot (GB), Old Persian (GB), Wuheida (GB) and from the start and also bred and owns his son Usak (Fr), a listed Left Hand (GB). winner in France earlier this year. Through her daughter High Hawk (GB) (Shirley Heights {GB}), Saint Lawrence's win was also another feather in the cap of Sunbittern features as the third dam of Aramaayo, who also has the Oakgrove mare Affluent (GB), a daughter of Oasis Dream the repetition of her genes through Dubawi. Space Blues is bought from Juddmonte in 2016 for 35,000gns and who has also another bred on this pattern as his third dam is Sunbittern's produced Daahyeh (GB). The Bated Breath (GB) filly won last daughter High Spirited (Ire), a full-sister to In The Wings' dam year's G3 Albany S. and G2 Rockfel S. as well as finishing High Hawk. runner-up in both the G1 Moyglare Stud S. and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Teofilo the Quiet Achiever While the hunt is on for Galileo's heir at Coolmore, one of his Lost Voice sons who receives little recognition for his achievements as stud Then there's Poet's Voice, from Dubawi's first crop, who died is the former champion 2-year-old Teofilo (Ire). two years ago at the age of 11 but can be considered, at the His trainer/breeder Jim Bolger's early contribution to Galileo's very least, to have been an extremely useful stallion. In pole success at stud has been well documented. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 18 AUGUST 2020 The Weekly Wrap: Fathers & Sons Cont. Teofilo's spotless juvenile campaign was mirrored the following year when another son of Galileo became champion 2-year-old: New Approach (Ire). While the latter went on to win the Derby, the Champion S. and the Irish Champion S., we can only guess at what might have been for Teofilo as a 3-year-old had injury not scuppered the continuation of his racing career. Senior Vice President Gary King All we really have to go on is what he has done subsequently Twitter: @garykingTDN at stud and the answer there is plenty, but with little fanfare. So [email protected] here's a toot for the old boy. + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Teofilo=s trainer/breeder Jim Bolger at The Curragh | Getty Images Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Now the sire of 18 Group 1 winners in Britain, Ireland, France, [email protected] Hong Kong and Australia, Teofilo registered his latest top-flight winner in Germany on Saturday where Donjah (Ger) recorded Contributing Editors her breakthrough success in the Preis von Europa. Now four, the Alan Carasso filly was third in the race last year and had been runner-up to Christina Bossinakis Ghaiyyath in the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden in 2019 as well as Cafe Racing winning the G2 Gran Premio del Jockey Club in Italy. She is the Sean Cronin second Group 1-winning filly for her sire this season after Tom Frary Shadwell's unbeaten Tawkeel (GB), who strolled to a five-length [email protected] victory in the Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary. Donjah continues a fine spell for Dr. Stefan Oschmann's Darius Irish Correspondent Racing and for breeders Gestut Karlshof. The same combination Daithi Harvey is found in Germany's Horse of the Year for 2019, Rubaiyat (Fr) (Areion {Ger}). The link between Darius Racing and Karlshof is Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Oschmann's racing manager and bloodstock agent Holger Faust, Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele who is the son of the stud's owners Bruno and Michaela Faust. Darius Racing also successfully campaigned G1 Deutsches Derby winner Isfahan (Ger) (Lord Of England {Ger}), who was bred and trained by Andreas Wohler and bought as a yearling by IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY Faust for i35,000.