Supersire Dubawi reaches landmark 100th stakes winner in famous Godolphin blue
Dubawi reached a new milestone when Space Blues provided him with his 100th stakes win in the Godolphin blue.
The landmark triumph came in the Listed Surrey Stakes at Epsom on Friday, when the Charlie Appleby-trained three-year-old got the better of Urban Icon by a neck.Dubawi was perhaps destined to be special, with his dam Zomaradah one of an elite group of mares to visit Sheikh Mohammed's favourite - and arguably best - horse Dubai Millennium when he retired to Dalham Hall Stud after a glittering career.
Dubawi, thankfully, proved himself a capable heir on the racecourse. Unbeaten at two, he won the Superlative Stakes at Newmarket before landing the Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh.
He was then crowned champion three-year-old having taken the Irish 2,000 Guineas, and emulated his great sire with victory in the Prix Jacques le Marois.
However, unlike with Dubai Millennium, who cruelly never got the chance, it has been as a sire that Dubawi has really made his mark, and his influence over the success of Godolphin in recent years has been significant, hardly less so, relatively, than Galileo's for Coolmore.
Sand Vixen was his first stakes winner for Godolphin, in the 2009 St Hugh’s Stakes. She went on to become his first Group winner with a convincing victory in the Group 2 Flying Childers.
The very next day, Poet’s Voice recorded the first of his Group wins in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. He would go on to land the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in a thrilling finish. He become a Group 1-winning sire himself.
Hunter’s Light is now standing at stud as a Darley stallion and, together with Dubawi’s 2,000 Guineas winner Night Of Thunder, will have his own runners hit the racecourse this year.
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Published on 4 June 2019inNews
Last updated 13:48, 4 June 2019
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