One of the first stallion sons of Shamardal (by Giant's Causeway) is notable Group 1 sire Lope De Vega and that augurs well for the prospects of Bow Creek, a member of the team at Haras du Logis.
He won two of his seven starts as a juvenile but improved considerably at the age of three, taking both the Group 2 Boomerang Mile at Leopardstown and Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood and earning a 119 rating from Timeform. A move to Australia saw him add further Group 2 success, this time over nine furlongs at Caulfield.
Bow Creek is the best of several winners out of the Group 3 Dahlia Stakes scorer Beneventa (by Most Welcome), a mare whose dam, Dara Dee (by Dara Monarch), was a half-sister to the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes winner and Group 2 Pretty Polly Stakes third Bay Empress (by Empery).
That filly became the dam of pattern-placed listed scorer Bela-M (by Ela-Mana-Mou) and grandam of the pattern-placed stakes winners Belle Syrienne (by Golan) and Brisk Breeze (by Monsun), and she is a half-sister to the dam of the Group 2 Vintage Stakes scorer Orizaba (by Orpen). There are also plenty of blacktype horses to be found under the various branches of the fourth generation of the family, but nothing as talented as Bow Creek was. He could become a source of useful mile to 10 furlong horses. BOW CREEK (IRE) – b.2011 – Shamardal – Beneventa, 6 wins inc Boomerang Mile (Gr2), Celebration Mile (Gr2), St George Stakes (Gr2), International Trial Stakes (L), 2nd Crystal Mile (Gr2), Dee Stakes (L), 3rd Thoroughbred Stakes (Gr3). Sire in France. First foals in 2018.
FOALS CATALOGUED:
Bc - Jazz Art (by Dynaformer) Arqana December €2,500 Bc - Perfect Bounty (by Bahamian Bounty) Arqana December not sold
A Group 1 winner by the sire of Lope De Vega, Haras de Bonneval's young recruit was rated 123 by Timeform as a three-year-old and 126 at the age of four. His top win came when beating Silverwave by one and a quarter lengths in the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Saint-Cloud, and there are 59 registered foals in his first crop.
He is a half-brother to the listed scorer Darabad (by Dansili) and he is the first foal out of the Grade 1 Hong Kong Vase heroine Daryakana (by Selkirk), a mare whose dam was France's three-year-old filly champion of 1999. Daryaba (by Night Shift) won both the Group 1 Prix de Diane (French Oaks) and Group 1 Prix Vermeille that season, and in addition to her top-level winner she is also responsible for the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris scorer Daramsar (by Rainbow Quest) and pattern-placed stakes winner Daraybi (by Street Cry).
Darata (by Vayrann), the third dam of Dariyan, won the Listed Prix des Tourelles and was runner-up in the Group 3 Prix du Royaumont and she is one of several notable fillies out of a one-time scorer called Darazina (by Labus).
Gentle Genius (by Danehill) is an Australian-born Group 1-placed pattern winner and her offspring feature the dual Group 3-winning gelding Ironstein (by Zabeel). Her American-born half-sister Daralinsha (by Empery), on the other hand, won the Group 3 Prix Minerve and became a broodmare of considerable note. The Group 2-placed Daraydala (by Royal Academy) is Daralinsha's only stakes winner on the track but that filly's pattern-placed half-sister Darashandeh (by Darshaan) gave us the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) scorer Darsi (by Polish Precedent), while Daralbayda (by Doyoun), who was also Group 3-placed, is the grandam of Darjina and third dam of Almanzor. Dual champion Darjina (by Zamindar) won the Group 1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas) in 2007 and her tally also featured the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and Group 1 Prix d'Astarte. She was also many times placed at the highest level and Timeform rated her 128 at three. Almanzor (by Wootton Bassett), of course, was the standout 10-furlong horse in Europe in 2016 and the Timeform 133-rated champion elect has won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club, Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes and Group 1 Champion Stakes. He stands at Haras d'Etreham, in France, and his first foals will arrive in 2019. Darazina's daughters also include Zaldivar (by Honour And Glory), who is the dam of the Group 1-placed Group 2 winner Honorine (by Redoute's Choice), and Darabaka (by Doyoun), dam of leading stayer Far Cry (by Pharly) and ancestor of a string of pattern winners that includes Group/Grade 2 scorers Grandeur (by Verglas) and Muthmir (by Invincible Spirit). DARIYAN (FR) – b.2012 – Shamardal – Daryakana, 4 wins inc Prix Ganay (Gr1), Prix Eugene Adam (Gr2), 2nd Prix d'Ispahan (Gr1), Dubai City of Gold Stakes (Gr2), Prix Guillaume d'Ornano (Gr2), 3rd Hong Kong Vase (Gr1). Sire in France. First foals in 2018.
FOALS CATALOGUED:
Bf - Cheg (by Kheleyf) Arqana December €15,000 Bf - Dance In The Park (by Walk In The Park) Arqana December €33,000 Bf - Dentelle (by Apeldoorn) Arqana December €30,000 Bc - Falabala (by Nayef) Arqana December withdrawn Bc - Fresh Strike (by Smart Strike) Tattersalls November 16,000gns Bc - La Dame De Grace (by Medecis) Arqana December not sold Bc - La Vitava (by Grand Lodge) Arqana December €2,000 Bc - Lady Melior (by Multiplex) Arqana December not sold Bc - Monteille (by Oasis Dream) Arqana December not sold Bf - Palace Secret (by Big Shuffle) Arqana December €1,500 (p/s) Bf - Ribadesella (by Hernando) Tattersalls December withdrawn Bf - Zewara (by Alhaarth) Arqana December €1,500 (p/s) The earliest stallion sons of Shamardal (by Giant's Causeway) with runners include Lope De Vega and Casamento and their early success augurs well for the prospects of those in earlier stages of their second career. Haras de Saint Arnoult's Sommerabend is among them and he covered 71 mares in his first season. The high-class miler was prolific, his blacktype wins featured the Group 2 Prix du Muguet at Saint-Cloud and the Group 2 Grosse Europa Meile at Munich, and Timeform rated him 120 at the age of seven. His dam, Sommernacht (by Monsun), was runner-up in the Group 3 Premio Primi Passi over six furlongs at San Siro as a juvenile, but his siblings include the 11-furlong Group 3 scorer Sommertag (by Tiger Hill), 10-furlong listed race winner Sinnerman (by Tiger Hill), and the stakes-placed middle-distance filly Sommerflora (by Pivotal). His grandam, Shona (by Windwurf), was a stakes winner in Germany and her descendants also include the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin scorer Sirius (by Dashing Blade), whose best performance in 2016 was when runner-up to Ito in the Group 2 Gerling-Preis, also over 12 furlongs. SOMMERABEND (GB) - b.2007 - Shamardal - Sommernacht, 12 wins inc Prix du Muguet (Gr2), Grosse Europa Meile (Gr2), Prix de la Porte Maillot (Gr3), Prix Edmond Blanc (Gr3), Prix Luthier (L), Prix Jacques de Bremond (L), Grand Prix Anjou-Bretagne (L), 2nd Prix du Palais-Royal (Gr3), Prix Perth (Gr3-twice), 3rd Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Gr2), Prix du Pin (Gr3-twice). Sire in France. First foals in 2016. FOALS CATALOGUED (updated)
bf - Anasy (by Gone West) Arqana Dec not sold bc - Calle A Venise (by Invincible Spirit) Arqana Dec €15,000 bc - Cruise Dancer (by Ishiguru) Arqana Dec not sold bf - Estella (by Acatenango) Arqana Dec €20,000 bc - Fedora (by Cape Cross) Arqana Dec €6,000
Mukhadram began his career with a one and three-quarter length win in the Wood Ditton Maiden Stakes over a mile at Newmarket and went on to become one of the leading middle-distance horses in Europe.
He lost his unbeaten record when finishing fourth in the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes at Ascot just two months after making that promising debut, his fifth and final start of the year saw him finish fifth to Bronze Angel in the Cambridgeshire, and Timeform rated him 109p. They rated him 126 at both four and five years of age. He beat the tragically ill-fated Group 1 Irish Derby hero Trading Leather in the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, also won the Group 2 York Stakes and Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes, chased home African Story in the Group 1 Dubai World Cup and Al Kazeem in the Group 1 Prince of Wales's Stakes, and he was also placed in both the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and in a second edition of the Eclipse. Mukhadram stands at Nunnery Stud and he covered 118 mares in his first season. He is a son of leading international sire Shamardal (by Giant's Causeway), whose early stallion sons feature the Group 1 sire Lope De Vega, and he comes from the family of Volksraad (by Green Desert), multiple champion sire in New Zealand.
His unraced dam Magic Tree (by Timber Country) is a half-sister to Group 1 Gran Criterium scorer Kirklees (by Jade Robbery) and to Group 1 St Leger and Grade 1 Hong Kong Vase hero Mastery (by Sulamani), their half-sister Artisti (by Cape Cross) is the dam of the Group 1-placed dual pattern winner Magic Artist (by Iffraaj), and the next dam is the sprint ace Cherokee Rose.
The fastest representative of Timeform 140-rated superstar and classic sire Dancing Brave (by Lyphard), Cherokee Rose won the Group 1 Sprint Cup and Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, she was runner-up in the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp, and in addition to being the dam of the classic-placed pattern winner Bowman (by Irish River) and of Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint runner-up Ahtoug (by Byron), she has several daughters who made their name at stud. Moyesii (by Diesis), grandam of Mukhadram, is one of them, obviously, but Hint of Spring (by Seeking The Gold) is the dam of the pattern -placed stakes winner Tulips (by Pivotal), and Cara Bella's (by Seeking The Gold) three Australian-born stakes winners include a Group 3 scorer. The siblings also include Rose de France (by Diktat), and her Group 1-placed, Group 2-winning son Cable Bay (by Invincible Spirit) was one of the most popular new additions to the stallion ranks in 2016, covering 152 mares in his first season at Highclere Stud. The aforementioned Volksraad, who was third in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes before going on to his string of sire championship titles and Group 1-winning offspring, was a half-brother to Cherokee Rose. The latter also has a full-sister of interest as she, Congress, is the grandam of the Grade 1 Cape Guineas winner and Grade 1 Cape Derby runner-up Noordhoek Flyer (by Pivotal), who is at stud in South Africa. Mukhadram was a top-class racehorse, he is by the sire of Lope De Vega, and he comes from the family of multiple champion sire Volksraad, all of which gives him every chance of becoming a stallion of note. There is no reason why he shouldn't be capable of getting two-year-old winners in the second half of the season, including some who could be blacktype horses, although it does seem likely that his best results will be with three-year-olds and older horses and from the time they race over a mile and upwards. That said, if some of that sprinting speed in his family is there to be passed on and if it matches up with the right mares, there could even be a few Mukhadram sprinters from time to time. MUKHADRAM (GB) – b.2009 – Shamardal – Magic Tree, 5 wins inc Coral-Eclipse Stakes (Gr1), York Stakes (Gr2), Brigadier Gerard Stakes (Gr3), 2nd Dubai World Cup (Gr1), Prince of Wales's Stakes (Gr1), 3rd King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr1), Coral-Eclipse Stakes (Gr1). Sire in England. First foals in 2016.
FOALS CATALOGUED (updated)
chc – Beach Candy (by Footstepsinthesand) Goffs Nov €3,000 chc – Blue Mistral (by Spinning World) Tattersalls Nov 20,000gms bc – Burnt Fingers (by Kheleyf) Tattersalls Nov 48,000gns bf – Cefira (by Distant View) Tattersalls Nov 4,000gns bc – Chalet Girl (by Oasis Dream) Goffs Nov €38,000 bc – Comma (by Kingmambo) Tattersalls Nov 15,000gns b/brf – Deire Na Sli (by Aussie Rules) Tattersalls Nov 22,000gns bc – Eolith (by Pastoral Pursuits) Tattersalls Nov 22,000gns bf – Euro Empire (by Bartok) Tattersalls Nov 15,000gns chf – Excellerator (by Exceed And Excel) Goffs Nov not sold chc – Hoh Chi Min (by Efisio) Tattersalls Nov 35,000gns chf – Jakarta Jade (by Royal Abjar) Tattersalls Nov 4,000gns bc – Kayd Kodaun (by Traditionally) Tattersalls Nov 52,000gns bc – Lady Catherine (by Bering) Goffs Nov not sold chc – Lady Tabitha (by Tamayuz) Tattersalls Nov 30,000gns bc – Mancunian Way (by Green Desert) Tattersalls Nov 8,000gns bc – Mountain Leap (by Sadler's Wells) Goffs Nov not sold bc – My Inspiration (by Invincible Spirit) Tattersalls Nov 120,000gns bc – Nictate (by Teofilo) Tattersalls Nov not sold bc – Night Owl (by Night Shift) Tattersalls Nov (p/s) 2,000gns bf – Nutkin (by Act One) Tattersalls Nov 55,000gns bc – Oulianovsk (by Peintre Celebre) Tattersalls Nov 52,000gns chc – Pasithea (by Celtic Swing) Tattersalls Nov 30,000gns chf – Pink Stone (by Bigstone) Tattersalls Nov not sold bf – Pivotal Silence (by Vita Rosa) Tattersalls Nov not sold bc – Pretty Girl (by Polish Precedent) Tattersalls Nov 9,000gns bc – Quiet Elusive (by Elusive Quality) Goffs Nov €3,500 bf – Rosa Midnight (by Lemon Drop Kid) Goffs Nov withdrawn bc – Royal Assent (by Royal Applause) Tattersalls Nov 16,000gns bc – Royal Whisper (by Royal Applause) Tattersalls Nov 47,000gns bc – Shawhill (by Dr Fong) Goffs Nov €21,000 bf – Songseeker (by Oasis Dream) Tattersalls Nov not sold bc – Sweet Lemon (by Oratorio) Tattersalls Nov withdrawn bf – Taaluf (by Nayef) Goffs Nov not sold bc – Violet (by Mukaddamah) Tattersalls Nov 55,000gns bf – Whirly Dancer (by Danehill Dancer) Tattersalls Nov 31,000gns chc – Winter Dress (by Haafhd) Tattersalls Nov 22,000gns bc – Wolumla (by Royal Applause) Tattersalls Nov 35,000gns bf – Wulfrida (by King's Best) Tattersalls IRE Nov withdrawn bc – Zariziyna (by Dalakhani) Goffs Nov €16,000 |
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