Dewhurst runner-up Dubawi Legend to join Compas Stallions venture

Dubawi Legend, a smart son of champion sire Dubawi, is set to take up stallion duties under the Compas Stallions banner for 2023 at Micheal Orlandi’s Starfield Stud in Mullingar, County Westmeath.

When trained by Hugo Palmer for breeders Rabbah Bloodstock, Dubawi Legend was rated joint-second highest juvenile on European classifications in 2021, having finishing second to Native Trail in the Dewhurst Stakes.

A winner on his racecourse debut at Doncaster, the colt would go on to land the Group 3 Goldene Peitsche over six furlongs at Baden-Baden last season.

Out of a Raven’s Pass mare, the UAE 1,000 Guineas winner Lovely Pass, Dubawi Legend is bred on the same cross as Mishriff and Saffron Beach.

Micheal Orlandi: high hopes for Dubawi Legend

Orlandi said: “At a fee of €6,500, we are delighted to offer breeders the opportunity to use a precocious son of champion sire and sire of sires, Dubawi, the sire of Night Of Thunder, New Bay, Zarak etc.

"We haven’t yet reached the crest of Dubawi’s wave as a sire of sires so to stand a Group 1-performing son of his is very exciting.

"Dubawi Legend is the second highest rated two-year-old to retire to stud in 2023. A top class sprinter, he is an exciting addition to the Compas Stallions roster. Limited breeding rights are available.”

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