Dubawi keys big weekend for Godolphin
Dubawi became the first sire to have three offspring win Breeders' Cup races in a single year, also fueling a historic weekend for Godolphin, the owner and breeder of all three victors.
Nicole RussoNov 08, 2021
Dubawi became the first sire to have three offspring win Breeders' Cup races in a single year, also fueling a historic weekend for Godolphin, the owner and breeder of all three victors.
The Niarchos Family was honored with the 2021 Longines and IFHA International Award of Merit on Friday at the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar. Fittingly, their brilliant runner Miesque, who made Breeders' Cup history during her own career, also showed her influence during this race weekend in California.
Sunday Silence, winner of the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic, spent his entire stud career in Japan. There, he found a perfectly complementary gene pool and became a breed-shaping sire whose impact in his adopted country cannot be overstated.
Reigning leading sire Into Mischief and rising star Gun Runner both sired Breeders' Cup winners, and exit last week with stallion records in sight before the end of 2021.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Knicks Go and Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Aloha West gave Maryland two Breeders' Cup winners last week at Del Mar.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Knicks Go continued to extend the legacy of a sireline that has had its fair share of success in the Breeders' Cup over the decades.
Four years after thrilling fans at the last Breeders' Cup at Del Mar with a decisive victory in the Classic, Gun Runner has a filly from his first crop, Echo Zulu, poised to repeat his season-ending heroics as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.
The international Shadwell Stables operation experienced a monumental loss this year as its founder, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, died in March. But even as the powerhouse stable navigates that loss and evaluates its operations, it has continued to show the strength of Sheikh Hamdan's program.
World-renowned sire Galileo, whose death in July sent shockwaves through the racing world, will look to posthumously extend his lead as the Breeders' Cup's all-time leading sire by money won. Meanwhile, the action this week at Del Mar could also shift the leaderboard of the event's leading living sires.
Regally bred multiple graded-stakes winner Tacitus will stand at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., in 2022, with partners including his breeder, Juddmonte Farms, the operations announced Monday.