News - DELACROIX (IRE)

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).

With farms in Ireland, Kentucky and Australia, Coolmore is a worldwide source of elite stallion talent and with 14 stallions – 11 of them G1 winners - on the roster this year, it really is a case of something for everyone, whatever your budget may be.

The Group I Coral Eclipse Stakes (1m2f) will be run later tonight at Sandown in the UK and it’s a highlight race of the summer racing season in the UK lining up the best three year-olds against the older horses and has special significance in this part of the world given five of the past six winners will stand in Australasia this spring.

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).

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.

Dubawi’s regally bred dual Group 1 winner, Delacroix (IRE), will travel to Coolmore Australia in 2026 to stand alongside an elite roster of stallions, including the newly acquired Super Seth and Home Affairs, the sire of this year's Golden Slipper winner.