Burwaaz a sprint son of Exceed And Excel

BURWAAZ (GB) - 2009 bay horse

Burwaaz covered a small book of mares at Hedgeholme Stud and had just 14 foals from his first season. He was a talented sprinter whose best form came as a two-year-old, the age at which Timeform rated him 108.

He is by the sire of Group 1 sires Excelebration and Helmet and he is out of the pattern-placed juvenile sprint stakes winner Nidhaal (by Observatory). She was the best of five winners out of her dam, and that granddaughter of Woodman (by Mr Prospector) is, in turn, out of an unraced half-sister to three horses of particular note.

Assert (by Be My Guest) won the Group 1 Irish Derby, Group 1 Benson & Hedges Gold Cup (now Juddmonte International Stakes), Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby), and Group 1 Joe McGrath Memorial Stakes.

His half-brother Bikala (by Kalamoun) also won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club, he got a second top-level success in the Group 1 Prix Ganay, and the races in which he was placed included the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

That pair disappointed at stud but their half-sister Eurobird (by Ela-Mana-Mou) came up with two listed race winners and she is the grandam of the Grade 2 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Pounced (by Rahy), the Allevamento di Besnate stallion whose progeny include the classic-placed Italian Group 2 scorer Full Drago.

Some of his first crop are inbred to Danehill and/or to Danzig (by Northern Dancer). It seems likely that a few useful handicappers may be the best that can be expected from him.

Burwaaz (GB) - b.2009 - Exceed And Excel - Nidhaal, 1 win inc 2nd Flying Childers Stakes (Gr2), Molecomb Stakes (Gr3), 3rd Gimcrack Stakes (Gr2), King Richard III Leicestershire Stakes (L), Pavilion Stakes (L). Sire in England. First foals in 2016.

YEARLINGS CATALOGUED:
bc - Cara's Delight (by Fusaichi Pegasus)     Tattersalls     Feb     not sold
bc - Koala Bear (by Oasis Dream)     Tattersalls     Feb     800gns
​chf - She's So Pretty (by Grand Lodge)     Tattersalls IRE Ascot     Sept     £4,800
bc - Sweet Charlie (by Myboycharlie)     Tattersalls     Feb     1,000gns
​chc - Tongalooma (by Shinko Forest)     Tattersalls     Feb     withdrawn