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AN UNMISSABLE OPPORTUNITY U special supplement
PRIZED FILLIES AND MARES ON OFFER AS SHADWELL ENTERS A NEW ERA
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AMDAN AL MAKTOUM is recognised as one of the foremost owners and breeders of recent times, with his thorough knowledge of pedigrees and deep understanding of the horse leading to wonderful success on the track. His instantly recognisable blue silks with white epaulets have been carried by turf legends such as Dayjur and Nashwan, world champions Invasor and Sakhee, and the recent superstar sprinters Battaash and Muhaarar. Pedigrees long nurtured by Sheikh Hamdan came to the fore once again on British Champions Day at Ascot last month, with Baaeed a brave winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Eshaada triumphant in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes. Since Sheikh Hamdan’s death in March, the global Shadwell breeding operation has undertaken a review of its business in an effort to focus on quality and competition at the highest level of the sport. Consequently, its broodmare band and string of fillies and mares in training is being reduced at key breeding-stock sales this autumn, while Sheikh Hamdan’s family maintains a streamlined breeding operation that will ensure his legacy endures for many years to come. Many of the lots available hail from families that were carefully cultivated by Sheikh Hamdan over successive generations, and helped him become champion owner in Britain on no fewer than seven occasions, and champion breeder three times. The historic partdispersal marks a new era for Shadwell and offers all breeders an unmissable opportunity to share in the farm’s proven success in producing top-class horses. In this special supplement we highlight some of the best families developed by Sheikh Hamdan, many of whose members are available to buy in the coming weeks, and show how Shadwell mares have already enriched other breeders’ strings. MARTIN STEVENS
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‘New era for Shadwell offers breeders an unmissable opportunity to share in the farm’s proven success in producing top-class horses’
Al Bahathri
1982 ch m Blushing GroomChain Store (Nodouble) Al Bahathri was a mare very close to Sheikh Hamdan’s heart. The chestnut daughter of Blushing Groom, a $650,000 Keeneland July yearling purchase, was a brave frontrunner who so nearly made all in the 1,000 Guineas but was caught close home by future Triple Crown heroine Oh So Sharp. She made amends by becoming her owner’s first Classic winner when successful in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and later added victories in the Coronation Stakes and Falmouth Stakes to her CV. Al Bahathri was such a favourite that when Sheikh Hamdan funded a new all-weather gallop at Newmarket he named it in her honour. The mare shone for Shadwell at stud too. She produced eight winners, including 2,000 Guineas and Champion Stakes victor Haafhd, Challenge Stakes scorer Munir and Coronation Stakes runner-up Hasbah. Her influence extended through her daughters, with
Almaaseh producing dual Group 1 hero Military Attack and Molecomb Stakes scorer Almaty, and appearing as ancestress of popular top-level winners Big Orange and Red Cadeaux, and Gmaasha becoming the dam of Dubai Duty Free winner Gladiatorus. Last month’s Bosra Sham Fillies’ Stakes winner Symphony Perfect is the latest smart performer to descend from Al Bahathri in the distaff line.
Desirable
1981 gr m Lord Gayle-Balidaress (Balidar) Desirable was bought as a yearling for just Ir10,000gns but her value rose sharply in the following years. The daughter of Lord Gayle won the Cheveley Park Stakes at two and ran third in the 1,000 Guineas at three, while her year-younger half-sister Park Appeal also scored in the Cheveley Park Stakes, as well as in the Moyglare Stud Stakes. Consequently, it took a bid of $1.6 million at Keeneland in November 1986 to secure her for the Shadwell broodmare band. As it turned out, it quickly proved to be money well
spent, as her first foal was the wonderful filly Shadayid, successful in the Prix Marcel Boussac at two and 1,000 Guineas at three, and placed in an unusual array of other Group 1 races – the Oaks, Coronation Stakes, Sussex Stakes, Haydock Sprint Cup and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Shadayid also struck gold with her first foal, the Prestige Stakes winner and 1,000 Guineas third Bint Shadayid, and she later produced the high-class pair Alshadiyah and Imtiyaz, plus Listed-placed Teeba, the future maternal granddam of Vosburgh Stakes winner Takaful. Shadayid meanwhile gained two half-brothers who won stakes races and became sires in Dumaani and Fath, while her ‘aunt’ Park Appeal made a name for herself as one of the most important broodmares of the last 40 years by producing Cape Cross and the dams of Diktat and Iffraaj.
Elle Seule
1983 ch m Exclusive Native-Fall Aspen (Pretense) A Group 2-winning daughter
of Exclusive Native and celebrated blue hen Fall Aspen, Elle Seule entered the Shadwell fold when bought for $1.5 million at the Keeneland November Breeding-Stock Sale of 1990. The mare was carrying to Nureyev at the time of her purchase, and the resultant foal was Irish 1,000 Guineas and Celebration Mile heroine Mehthaaf, who would go on to produce Premio Lydia Tesio winner Najah and the Listedplaced pair Tanaghum and Tasdeer. Tanaghum is, in turn, the dam of Group winners Bangkok, Matterhorn and Tactic, and the maternal granddam of dual champion miler Ribchester. Elle Seule later also produced for Shadwell the July Cup winner and useful sprint sire Elnadim, as well as the stakes-winning fillies Ashraakat and Khulood. The latter went on to produce Hurry Harriet Stakes scorer Adool. This family tree has blossomed through other branches too. Only Seule, one of the foals Elle Seule had produced
before her purchase by Sheikh Hamdan, bred champion Occupandiste and Listed winner Only Green. Occupandiste became the dam of Group 1 performers Mondialiste and Impressionnante, who produced Prix du Jockey Club victor Intello, while Only Green bred Group 2 winner and Classic-placed Shaman.
Height Of Fashion
1979 b m Bustino-Highclere (Queen’s Hussar) Sheikh Hamdan’s purchase of Height Of Fashion from the Queen in 1982 proved to be a pivotal moment in the foundation of Shadwell. The Group 2-winning daughter of Bustino and the Queen’s dual Classic heroine Highclere produced eight winners, all of whom gained black type, headed by the outstanding trio of Nashwan, Nayef and Unfuwain. Remarkably, Sheikh Hamdan bred Group 1 winners from each of those colts after they retired to stud: Aqaarid from Nashwan; Tamayuz from Nayef; and Alhaarth, Eswarah and Lahan from Unfuwain.
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MATRIARCHS Shadwell drafts always a highlight
Shadwell magic (clockwise from left): Nayef (Height Of Fashion) with Sheikh Hamdan after winning the 2001 Champion Stakes; Cherry Hinton winner Asfurah (Manal); Bint Shadayid (Desirable) scores on her debut; Haafhd (Al Bahathri) wins the Champion Stakes in 2004; Bahri (Wasnah) wins the St James’s Palace Stakes
The three stallion brothers have also given Shadwell numerous accomplished broodmares. Height Of Fashion’s daughters also proved to be tremendously productive in their broodmare careers for the operation. Manwah produced stakes winners Mustanfar and Tadris and is granddam of classy sprinter Hot Streak, while Bashayer became the granddam of Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner Lahudood, who in turn is the granddam of the brilliant Baaeed and his Group 3-winning brother Hukum. Wijdan delivered stakes winners Makderah and Oriental Fashion, while Sarayir gave Shadwell the top-class trio Ghanaati, Mawatheeq and Rumoush, and is ancestress of Group 1 performers Maqaasid, Raheen House and Shraaoh. This is arguably Shadwell’s most successful family, certainly its most recognisable one, producing high-class horses year in, year out.
Manal
1979 b m Luthier-Top Twig (High Perch) Purchased by Tom Jones for
Sheikh Hamdan for $525,000 as a yearling at Keeneland in 1980, Manal showed little in three starts on the track but more than made up for that disappointment in her breeding career. The full-sister to Group 2 scorers and Group 1 runnersup Tip Moss and Twig Moss produced four winners at stud including Muhbubh, a Blushing Groom filly who caused a shock when beating the highly touted Kerrera to win the Princess Margaret Stakes. Muhbubh went on to produce Tom Fool Stakes winner Kayrawan, and through her daughters appears as ancestress of high-class performers Haatef, Magical Memory, Sandreamer and Shimah. Mathkurh, a winning daughter of Riverman and Manal, produced Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Asfurah and US Grade 3 scorer Istintaj, but it is Mathaayl, another winner by Shadeed out of Manal, who has given this page most depth. Mathaayl was the dam of Listed winner and Lancashire
Oaks runner-up Sahool, as well as daughters from whom high-class performers Gutaifan, Maraahel, Mustashry, Shades Of Blue and Ventura Storm descend. The abundant Manal family has borne even more stakeswinning fruit in 2021, in the shape of Don Chicco and Keeper Of Time.
Wasnah
1987 b m Nijinsky-Highest Trump (Bold Bidder) Wasnah, a daughter of Nijinsky and Queen Mary Stakes winner Highest Trump, was secured for $850,000 as a short yearling at the dispersal of Nelson Bunker Hunt’s stock at the Keeneland January Sale in 1988. She failed to win in six starts for John Dunlop, although she did finish second in the Pretty Polly Stakes, and she later vindicated Sheikh Hamdan’s faith in her in the Shadwell broodmare band. Wasnah’s very first foal was St James’s Palace Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Bahri, from whom Shadwell would breed its exceptional Juddmonte International and Prix de
SHADWELL’S drafts of fillies and mares have always provided a highlight of the breedingstock sales down the years, and many other operations have bred top-class performers from their purchases. This year’s Commonwealth Cup winner Campanelle is a fine example of the opportunities available in those consignments. The flying filly was bred by Tally-Ho Stud out of Marygate Stakes scorer Janina, who was purchased by the farm for just 39,000gns at the Tattersalls July Sale in 2016. Lynch Bages bred last year’s Irish Derby winner Santiago and this season’s Yorkshire Oaks third La Joconde out of Wadyhatta, a winning Cape Cross halfsister to Prix du Jockey Club third Motamarris who h was bought b h by b Horse France for €275,000 at the Arqana Summer Sale of 2016.
l l’Arc de Triomphe hero S Sakhee. The mare went on to p produce five further winners, i including Champagne Stakes s scorer and Champion Stakes t third Bahhare, who sired a h handful of good horses at s stud. Her best b broodmare d daughters were the u unraced pair Istiqlal a Wissal. and Istiqlal, by Diesis, p produced Greenham S Stakes winner Muqbil a Prix de and S Sandringham runneru Mostaqeleh, and is up t ancestress of the P Pattern winners M Matera Sky, M Muthabara and R Rawaaq. Wissal, by W Woodman, delivered L Listed winners E Ethaara, Mudaaraah a Sudoor, as well as and s stakes-placed Muwaary a Yasmeen. Wissal’s and m maternal grandson Ribhi m marked himself out as an e exciting prospect by winning t of his three starts for two Ma cus Tregoning ego g this t s season. seaso . Marcus
On the day following Santiago’s Classic victory at the Curragh, Cayenne Pepper found only Magical too good in the Pretty Polly Stakes. The filly, later a four-length winner of the Blandford Stakes, was bred by GHS Bloodstock and JC Bloodstock out of Muwakaba, a winning daughter of Elusive Quality who was knocked down to Tom Malone for a mere £8,500 at an Ascot sale. The brilliant four-time Group 1 winner Ribchester was bred by Mike O’Brien and Andrew Thompson out of Mujarah, a daughter of Marju descended from Mehthaaf who cost 18,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. The breeders sold Ribchester as a foal for €78,000. Mujarah’s dam Tanaghum was also sold by Shadwell, albeit for a fair bit more money. The Listed-placed daughter of Darshaan and Mehthaaf was bought by Barronstown Stud for €250,000 at the Goffs November
Sale, and her new owners have bred the high-class pair Bangkok and Matterhorn from the mare, and sold her Churchill yearling colt for 440,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 1 last month. Shadwell’s European broodmare drafts can be the source of success in quite surprising ways. Eltimaas, an unraced daughter of Ghostzapper who was sold to Gary Mudgway for 20,000gns at Tattersalls in 2010, was mated with Gio Ponti in the US to produce Drefong, an impressive winner of the King’s Bishop Stakes, Breeders’ Cup Sprint and Forego Stakes. It all goes to show that no stone should be left unturned when combing Shadwell’s drafts at the coming Goffs November and Tattersalls December breeding-stock sales for treasure.
Success story: Ribchester (Elle Seule) won four Group 1s
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A new era for f Shadwell. Shadwe Sh d lll. An unmissable un ssab e opportunity pp y for y you... you .. Consigning fillies, mares & colts at:
Lot 1084: EJAAZAH Acclamation - English Ballet Covering: Teofilo
Lot 1146: MURAAQABA Dubawi - Nufoos Covering: Dark Angel
Lot 1240: SARAABA New Approach - Thamarat Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1085: GARMOOSHA Kingmambo - Eswarah Covering: Sea The Stars
Lot 1147: MUTEELA Dansili - Nufoos Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1241: SHIMAH Storm Cat - Sayedat Alhadh Covering: Blue Point
Lot 1086: GHARAANEEJ Pivotal - Neverletme Go Covering: Dark Angel
Lot 1148: NAAFER Oasis Dream - Shabiba Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1242: THAFEERA War Front - Aqsaam Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1087: HADEEQA Cape Cross - Khulood Covering: Ghaiyyath
Lot 1149: NABARAAT War Front - Marraasi Covering: Awtaad
Lot 1243: ZAAKHIR Raven’s Pass - Zahoo Covering: Earthlight
Lot 1077: AARAAS Haafhd - Adaala Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1088: KALAATAH Dynaformer - Teeba Covering: Awtaad
Lot 1150: QAREENAH Arch - Princess Kris Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1244: ZAHRATTY Muhaarar - Beach Bunny Covering: Lope De Vega
Lot 1078: AFDHAAD Nayef - Albaraah Covering: Teofilo
Lot 1139: LAYALEENA Sea The Stars - Nectar de Rose Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1234: RABAABAH Shamardal - Safwa Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1334: AZWAH Invincible Spirit - Bethrah Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1079: AGHAANY Dubawi - Hathrah Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1140: MAKTABA Dansili - Ezima Covering: Pinatubo
Lot 1235: RAHEEB Kodiac - Dream Date Covering: Eqtidaar
Lot 1335: FLEETINGSMILE DistortedHumor-FleetIndian Covering: Eqtidaar
Lot 1080: ALBARAAH Oasis Dream - Coconut Show Covering: Blue Point
Lot 1141: Covering:
Lot 1236: RASMEYAA New Approach - Posterity Covering: Dark Angel
Lot 1336: MUBADARRAT Sea The Stars - Qertaas Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1081: ALNAAS Dansili - Hedaaya Covering: Blue Point
Lot 1142: MAQAASID Green Desert - Eshaadeh Covering: Dark Angel
Lot 1237: RAWAAQ Invincible Spirit - Zaqrah Covering: Awtaad
Lot 1337: ORIENTAL STEP Tamayuz - Oriental Fashion Covering: Belardo
Lot 1082: ALSHADHIA Marju - Wijdan Covering: Earthlight
Lot 1143: MESADAH Raven’s Pass - Albisola Covering: Make Believe
Lot 1238: RIQA Dubawi - Thamarat Covering: Kingman
Lot 1338: SHAAQAAF Sepoy - Burke’s Rock Covering: Mohaather
Lot 1083: BETHRAH Marju - Reve d’Iman Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1144: MOGHAMARAH Dawn Approach - Shimah Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 1239: RUFOOF Zamindar - Tahrir Not covered in 2021
Lot 1339: SHAWKA Oasis Dream - Wissal Covering: King Of Change
Tattersalls December Mare Sale
Lot 1452: MEJTHAAM Exceed And Excel - Adhwaa Filly out of training
Lot 1728: RIDAA New Approach - Halaqa Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 2117: TAHASUN Tamayuz - Urjuwaan Filly out of training
Lot 1454: TAWAHUB Kingman - Mawheba Filly out of training
Lot 1729: TASLEYA Frankel - Mashoora Covering: Dark Angel
Lot 2118: ZAWAHIR Lope de Vega - Fawz Filly out of training
Lot 1293: TANAAGHOM Dubawi - Adool Filly out of training
Lot 1455: ZAAJIRAH Shamardal - Lanansaak Filly out of training
Lot 1958: HUKAMAA Dansili - Motmayza Covering: Masar
Lot 2273: SORTITA Monsun - Sacarina Covering: Too Darn Hot
Lot 1294: AL AWIR Siyouni - Drumfad Bay Filly out of training
Lot 1585: ALKUMAIT Showcasing - Suelta Colt out of training
Lot 1960: NAWASSI Dubawi - Maqaasid Covering: Eqtidaar
Lot 2274: QAADIRA Mr Greeley - Makderah Covering: King Of Change
Lot 1295: AL HUSN Dubawi - Hadaatha Filly out of training
Lot 1612: ZAAJEL Awtaad - Elshaadin Filly out of training
Lot 1961: AFKAAR Dark Angel - Entisaar Filly out of training
Lot 2276: MULKEYYA Mawatheeq - Rifqah Covering: Tasleet
Lot 1296: AL TAYEBAT Lope De Vega - Mutebah Filly out of training
Lot 1613: FAYAFI Dark Angel - Fadhayyil Filly out of training
Lot 1962: AWQAAT Awtaad - Qareenah Filly out of training
Lot 2277: ADAALAH Oasis Dream - Muteela Covering: Eqtidaar
Lot 1297: HUDUD Dubawi - Hawaafez Filly out of training
Lot 1614: MANAAFITH ExceedAnd Excel -Almashooqa Filly out of training
Lot 1963: KHARSHUF Kitten’s Joy - Aroosah Filly out of training
Lot 2278: A bay filly Golden Horn - Hawraa Filly out of training
Lot 1298: SHOMOOLY Frankel - Riqa Filly out of training
Lot 1615: TAQLEED Sea The Stars - Eswarah Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 1964: KIDWAH Kodiac - Areeda Filly out of training
Lot 2279: ALMADANIYAH Awtaad - Indian Ink Filly out of training
Lot 1299: SUDAF War Front - Mufajaah Filly out of training
Lot 1616: KHAYYAAL Speightstown - Wonderful Covering: Blue Point
Lot 2032: URJUWAAN Cape Cross - Sudoor Covering: Ribchester
Lot 2280: MATHAAYEL Muhaarar - Etaab Filly out of training
Lot 1300: TAYYBAH Kingman - Taqaareed Filly out of training
Lot 1617: TAWREED Speightstown - Hearty Laugh Covering: Pinatubo
Lot 2033: GHAZAWAAT Siyouni- Reech Band Covering: Tamayuz
Lot 2326: HAWAAFEZ Nayef - Merayaat Covering: Masar
Lot 1371: A bay filly War Front - Ausus Filly out of training
Lot 1618: WAAHAAT Siyouni - Sandy Girl Covering: Pinatubo
Lot 2034: KASAYID Pivotal - Serious Dowth Covering: Pinatubo
Lot 2327: DAYMOOMA Pivotal - Adaala Covering: New Approach
Lot 1372: ESHFAAQ Lope De Vega - Inchmahome Filly out of training
Lot 1676: SHARQEYIH Shamardal - Shabiba Covering: Night Of Thunder
Lot 2035: TAHNEED War Front - Auld Alliance Covering: Awtaad
Lot 2328: ETAAB Street Cry - Ethaara Covering: Muhaarar
Lot 1373: MOQADAMA Dark Angel - White Daffodil Filly out of training
Lot 1677: SHUROOQ Dubawi - Natagora Covering: Oasis Dream
Lot 2036: A bay filly Kingman - Mashoora Filly out of training
Lot 2329: TAMADHOR Arcano - Hedaaya Covering: Eqtidaar
Lot 1374: UMNEYAAT Dansili - Tarayef Filly out of training
Lot 1678: HOORREYA Dansili - Rumoush Covering: Persian King
Lot 2037: HAMHAMA Slade Power - Flare Of Firelight Filly out of training
Lot 2330: MOSABAQA Muhaarar - Estidraaj Filly out of training
Lot 1375: ALAATA Smart Strike - Alshadiyah Covering: Mohaather
Lot 1679: MOHJATTY Awtaad - Ezima Filly out of training
Lot 2038: BINT ELMALEK Kingman - Maayaat Filly out of training
Lot 2331: SALAASA Teofilo - Gharaaneej Filly out of training
Lot 1376: MUSAANADA Sea The Stars - Gaze Covering: Pinatubo
Lot 1681: TALBEYAH Lope De Vega - Thai Haku Filly out of training
Lot 2039: GILADAH Muhaarar - Tarfasha Filly out of training
Lot 2373: ALMIGHWAR Dubawi - Taghrooda Colt out of training
Lot 1377: EITHAAR Kingman - Hathrah Covering: Sea The Moon
Lot 1682: RIHAAF Kitten’s Joy - Garmoosha Filly out of training
Lot 2111: NAWAADY Kingman - Mooghareadh Filly out of training
Lot 2374: THIBAAN War Front - Lahudood Colt out of training
Lot 1378: JADEERAH Frankel - Maqaasid Covering: Blue Point
Lot 1723: ELSHAADIN Dalakhani - Distinctive Look Covering: Too Darn Hot
Lot 2112: NAZAAHA Shamardal - Fleeting Smile Filly out of training
Lot 2375: USLOOB Invincible Spirit - Thawaany Colt out of training
Lot 1448: FAWZ Medaglia d’Oro - Lahudood Covering: Pinatubo
Lot 1724: FARMAH Speightstown - Torrestrella Covering: Kingman
Lot 2113: RAMAD Awtaad - Saraaba Filly out of training
Lot 2376: ALBAYAADER Kingman - Mubadarrat Filly out of training
Lot 1449: SHAFAFYA Shamardal - Tanaghum Covering: Teofilo
Lot 1725: HADAATHA Sea The Stars - Hathrah Covering: Siyouni
Lot 2114: WAAJEEHA Kingman - Hawaafez Filly out of training
Lot 2377: KUTAIBA Golden Horn - Maktaba Filly out of training
Lot 1450: TARAATEEL Oasis Dream - Farmah Covering: Blue Point
Lot 1726: INTISAAR War Front - Betterbetterbetter Covering: Lope De Vega
Lot 2115: ZAHAA Kingman - Maktaba Filly out of training
Lot 2378: SAFAYN Speightstown - Elraazy Filly out of training
Lot 1451: RAAIQAH Speightstown - Lemon Gin Covering: Persian King
Lot 1727: GANAYEM Frankel - Rose Of Summer Covering: Invincible Spirit
Lot 2116: TAHANI Profitable - Bold Assumption Filly out of training
Lot 2379: SAREEHA Shamardal - Saraha Filly out of training
Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale 19th - 20th November
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