Wuheida retired, ends race career on winning note

Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Wuheida has been retired and will enter the broodmare band of owner-breeder Godolphin.

The 4-year-old Dubawi filly made her first start since the Breeders’ Cup a winning one, with a four-length victory in the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes on May 6 at Newmarket. But that was her career finale, as Godolphin announced her retirement in a statement on its official website Monday, stating that “a few niggling injury worries” that the filly had dealt with in the past resurfaced following the race.

“I am pleased she went out on a high with such an emphatic win at Newmarket,” trainer Charlie Appleby said in the statement. “She was a very talented filly on the racecourse. She will go to stud, and Godolphin looks forward to seeing her progeny in due course.”

Wuheida won 4 of 8 career starts, earning $1,537,519. In addition to her signature victory in the Filly and Mare Turf last November at Del Mar, she won the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac-Criterium des Pouliches in France as a juvenile. She finished second in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes in England last year, and was third in the German Oaks.

Out of the multiple Grade 1/Group 1-winning Singspiel mare Hibaayeb, Wuheida is from the extended family of English champion Oh So Sharp.