News - BENBATL (GB)
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).
The Dubawi sireline has been embraced by Australian breeders with no fewer than seven of his G1 winning sons standing in Australia this spring and one of the stars of that group is Ghaiyyath (IRE), who sired two new stakes-winners overnight.
The Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale last week produced strong results and a record average of $51,829, providing another look at the progeny of several exciting young first season sires, so let’s check out the best of their results.
Dubawi stallions are all the rage in Australia with no fewer than six of them standing at commercial studs in NSW and Victoria, but one elite stallion by the legendary Darley sire has elected to race on at five and Notable Speech landed the Group I Lockinge Stakes (1m) overnight at Newbury.
Woodside Park Stud in Victoria were thinking outside the square when they decided to stand globetrotting Group I winning Dubawi stallion Benbatl (GB), who shuttles from Japan and he posted his first stakes-winner over the weekend in Japan.
On our tour of the Victorian studs last week we visited Woodside Park Stud and while new recruit Celestial Legend was the star attraction it was hard not be impressed by Dubawi’s globe-trotting son Benbatl (GB), who has his first Australian bred foal on the ground.
Woodside Park have released a list of their quality mares set to visit new recruit Celestial Legend this spring and one of them is Aussie bred Group II winner Nafaayes, who produced a promising 2YO winner overnight in the UK.
The Group I Newmarket One Thousand Guineas (1m) for the fillies delivered a surprise package of a result as did the colts edition on Saturday with victory going to the half-sister by Kingman to Woodside Park Stud’s new recruit Benbatl (GB).
Woodside Park Stud have confirmed fees on their six strong roster for this spring headed by new addition Benbatl (GB), a triple Group I winning sin of Dubawi, who won the Group I MRC Caulfield Stakes in 2018 and chased Winx home for second in the Cox Plate.
Triple Group I winning Dubawi stallion Benbatl (GB), who won the Group I MRC Caulfield Stakes in 2018 and chased Winx home for second in the Cox Plate, will be a new addition at Woodside Park Stud in Victoria this spring.
Back from a successful Australian campaign where he won the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes and ran Winx to two lengths in the WS Cox Plate, Godolphin’s Benbatl gave a 5-length hiding to the Group 1 St James's Palace Stakes runner-up King Of Comedy in Friday’s Group II Shadwell Joel Stakes (1m) at Newmarket.
Godolphin threw out a warning that they will be a major player over the Spring Carnival in Melbourne when the imports Benbatl (GB) and Blair House (IRE) fought out a thrilling finish to the $1 million Group 1 Caulfield Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday.