Mawj retired from racing

Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Mawj has been retired to join Godolphin’s broodmare band. The Exceed And Excel filly was ninth in the Group 1 Jebel Hatta last month at Meydan in what proved her career finale.

Mawj won 6 of 11 starts racing as a homebred for Godolphin, earning more than $1.2 million. A Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed as a juvenile, she turned in an outstanding 3-year-old campaign last year, winning twice at Meydan before returning to Newmarket to win the English 1000 Guineas. Sidelined for the summer, she headed to the United States in the fall and came off a five-month layoff to win the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, then was beaten a nose when facing older males in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. She was voted a finalist for both outstanding 3-year-old filly and outstanding turf female in Eclipse Award balloting

Breeding plans have not been announced for Mawj, a half-sister to Eclipse champion Modern Games.

Malathaat delivers first foal

Two-time Eclipse Award champion Malathaat has delivered her first foal, a filly by five-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief.

“Princess M has arrived,” owner Shadwell Racing posted on social media Tuesday morning, with a photo of the bay filly with her dam in Kentucky.

Malathaat, by Curlin and out of Broodmare of the Year Dreaming of Julia, won 10 of 14 starts and never missed the board while earning more than $3.7 million. Her six Grade 1 wins were highlighted by the 2021 Kentucky Oaks and 2022 Breeders’ Cup Distaff. She was voted outstanding 3-year-old filly and outstanding older dirt female for those campaigns.

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