So many Australian studs are now invested in the Dubawi sireline and it was running hot overnight in Europe with Dubawi sire sons producing four stakes-winners including new juvenile stakes-winners for Too Darn Hot (GB) and Ghaiyyath (IRE).
One of the first sons of Dubawi to go to stud was New Bay and he featured with a pair of Group winners with Persica (5g) taking out the Group III Superior Mile Stakes (1m) at Haydock, while Pride of Arras (4g) won the Group III September Stakes (1m4f) at Kempton.
New Bay stands at Ballylinch Stud at a fee of €75,000 having started his stud career in 2017 at a fee of €20,000.
Headlining the Darley NSW roster at a fee of $275,000, Too Darn Hot had a new stakes-winner in Australia when Bangkok Hottie captured the Group II ATC Furious Stakes and then made it a stakes double in 24 hours when two year-old colt First Law won the Listed Ascendant Stakes (1m) at Haydock.
Trained by Charlie Appleby and ridden by William Buick, First Law made it two wins in as many starts when forging clear to win by more than a length.
“He is in the [G1] Dewhurst and the [G2] Royal Lodge, but possibly something like the [G3] Autumn Stakes over a mile at Newmarket would suit,” said William Buick.
“That is a race Charlie [Appleby] has brought some of his nicer two-year-olds to. He is raw and learning on the job, but that was very much what I expected coming here today. I was hoping we wouldn't have to make our own running, but it is what it is.
“He wasn't improved for the ground, but it is a good learning curve for him. I like the way he finished off the last half of the race. It is never ideal going that slow because you don't want to quicken too quickly too far out. I thought he did very well and he is a lovely big horse.”
First Law was purchased by Godolphin for 1million guineas from the Airlie Stud draft at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale and is a blueblood being a half-brother to Group I winner and Champion 2YO Filly Skitter Scatter, stakes-winners Skellett and Victory Dance as well as Group placed Data Dependent, the dam of Group I Belmont Oaks winner Aspen Grove.
He is the 38th stakes-winner for Too Darn Hot.
Ghaiyyath is the most expensive sire on the Darley Victoria roster at $88,000 and he had a progressive winner at Randwick on Saturday in Barrengarry (4g), who looks destined for stakes class and in France his two year-old filly Golden Savior won the Listed Prix Arqana Criterium de l’Ouest (1600m).
Trained by Nicolas Clement and Frauke ‘Flo’ Hermans, Golden Savior improved at her fourth start with a step up in trip to claim a Black Type win when scoring by three-quarters of a length.
Golden Savior has won two of four starts and was a modest 22,000 guinea purchase for her trainers from Tattersalls October Book 2 Yearling Sale.
She is a half-sister to Group III placed Good Queen Bess and is the first stakes-winner among five winners from six foals to race from Golden Reign, a placed half-sister to 2015 European Horse of the Year Golden Horn.
Golden Savior is the 15th stakes-winner for Ghaiyyath.
There are no fewer than seven sons of Dubawi at stud in Australia this spring and in addition to Too Darn Hot and Ghaiyyath are the following Group I winners – Delacroix (IRE) (Coolmore), Henry Longfellow (IRE) (Rosemont Stud), Lead Artist (GB) (Arrowfield), Benbatl (GB) (Woodside Park) and Akeed Mofeed (GB) (Rosden Park).
