A superstar's first steps: discover the inside story of Baaeed's early years

The late Hamdan Al Maktoum's Shadwell Stud bred many champions, although none as formidable as Baaeed. All young horses bred by the stud go through the same rearing process on Shadwell's farms in Britain and Ireland.

Two weeks after foals are born at Nunnery Stud in Norfolk, they are transferred with their dams to Beech House Stud in Newmarket. After two or three months the mares and their foals then relocate to Derrinstown Stud in County Kildare, where the foals are weaned at six months.

Typically, foals graze at Derrinstown until the autumn of their yearling year, when they transfer back to Britain to be broken in at Snarehill Stud, also in Norfolk. Once that process is complete they are dispatched to their chosen trainers.