Racing fans were left in awe Night of Thunder stallion Ombudsman at Royal Ascot on Wednesday when he exploded away from an elite field to win the Group I Prince of Wales’s Stakes for the second year running and that does shine the spotlight on first time Coolmore shuttler Delacroix (IRE).
Read about Ombudsman’s latest G1 romp at Royal Ascot here.
Last year Ombudsman started a short priced favourite in his next start after Royal Ascot in the Group I Coral Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, but was run down late by emerging three year-old colt Delacroix.
The Aidan O'Brien trained Delacroix then finished second to him in the Group I Juddmonte International at York before winning the Group I Irish Champion Stakes. He then closed out his career with a fourth in the Group I British Champions Stakes at Ascot behind Calandagan (2025 European Horse of the Year), Ombudsman and Almaqam, who won this year’s Tattersalls Gold Cup in Ireland and was fourth on Wednesday in the Prince of Wales's Stakes.
Delacroix is the latest G1 winning son of boom sire of sires Dubawi to go to stud and will be looking to follow in the footsteps of Too Darn Hot (GB) and Ghaiyyath (IRE), who have made a huge impact in Australia and of course Night of Thunder, who has sired three G1 winners so far at Royal Ascot this week with Bow Echo and Ten Bob Tony joining Ombudsman.
Delacroix is one of two Group I winners from 2015 and 2016 Champion US Turf mare Tepin, so has the big pedigree to match his G1 talent and physique.
Breeders looking to utilise the Dubawi sireline this spring will find it hard to go past Delacroix at a fee of $38,500.
