Month: March 2023

Qatar Racing Hosts Contest To Name Two Zoustar Juveniles

The second European crop by Qatar Racing's international sire sensation, Zoustar will be seen on the racecourse this year and Qatar Racing's social media followers have the unique opportunity to name two fillies who will run in the operation's famous claret silks:

  • Zoustar x Out Of The Flames in training with Archie Watson
  • Zoustar x Wind Fire in training with John and Thady Gosden

Standing at Tweenhills for the European breeding season, Zoustar enjoyed great success last year, headed by Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner and Cartier European Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, Lezoo. His European 2022 yearling sales average of £79,715 was the highest of his generation in Europe and an impressive 17 of his yearlings sold for seven figures in Australia.

This season, Zoustar boasts the most QIPCO 1000 Guineas entries of any European second season sire with Lezoo, Couplet and Gemstar, whilst Zoology is entered in the QIPCO 2000 Guineas.

David Redvers, Qatar Racing's Racing Manager said: “The Zoustar filly x Out Of The Flames is with Archie Watson and looking very forward for a Zoustar filly. Being out of a mare who was third in the Queen Mary and who has already bred a two-year-old winner by Zoustar, we would be very hopeful that she might even turn into a Royal Ascot filly.”

“The Zoustar filly out of Wind Fire has been in training with John and Thady Gosden for about three weeks. She is another extremely well bred, speedy filly. Her dam was also placed at Royal Ascot, this time in the Norfolk Stakes, and although I wouldn't expect her to be quite as forward and likely to be running by Ascot, I would expect her to be extremely fast.”

The competition winners will be selected by Sheikh Fahad, Chairman of Qatar Racing, and David Redvers. The prize will include two tickets for the opening day of the QIPCO Guineas Festival which commences on Friday, May 5, 2023.

Redvers added: “Zoustar is a phenomenal stallion and has been very well received, globally. He is a very exciting stallion for Sheikh Fahad, his brothers and the Qatar Racing operation. We look forward to seeing his second European crop on the track this year.

“The names should reflect Zoustar's class and the fillies' high-quality pedigree. We look forward to going through the entries. Fingers crossed – you could be naming future champions.”

How to enter:

  1. Follow Qatar Racing on social media:

Twitter: @Qatar_Racing

Instagram: @qatarracingltd

  1. Reply to any of the social media posts with your name suggestion

Names must be clean and no longer than 18 characters

  1. Entries open Sunday, March 5 and close midnight Sunday, March 12, 2023
  2. Winners announced week commencing Monday 20th March 2023

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Zarkava and Tarnawa Among 22 Aga Khan Mares For Siyouni

The Aga Khan Studs has one of Europe's leading Classic prospects for this season in the unbeaten Group 1 winner Tahiyra (Ire), whose sire Siyouni (Fr), unsurprisingly, has a stellar lists of mares booked to visit him in 2023.

These include Tahiyra's half-sister Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal), who was also trained by Dermot Weld and won three Group 1 races among her nine career victories, as well as finishing runner-up in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. 

An equally starry name features on the list as the brilliant, unbeaten Zarkava (Fr) (Zamindar) will also visit Siyouni and currently has a two-year-old colt by him named Zarouk (Fr), who is in training with Francis Graffard, along with the mare's three-year-old Frankel (GB) filly named Zarkala (Fr).

Zarkava's four-year-old daughter, Zarka (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}), will also be covered by Siyouni for the first time, as will Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor), who retired at the end of last season with five wins to her name, including the G2 Prix Corrida and G2 Prix de Pomone. 

While the exciting Classic winner and Arc runner-up Vadeni (Fr) (Churchill {Ire}) remains in training at four, his stakes-placed half-sister Vadsena (Fr) (Makfi {GB}) is another on the books for Siyouni, as well as Group 2 winners and Group 1 runners-up Candarliya (Fr) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and Valia (Fr) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). Group 3 winner Hamariyna (Ire) (Sea The Moon {Ger}) and Dariyza (Fr) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), a Listed-winning half-sister to Aga Khan Studs sire Dariyan (Fr) (Shamardal) are among those to be covered by France's leading sire. 

At Gilltown Stud in Ireland, Sea The Stars (Ire) will also be receiving strong support from the home team. He enjoyed another fine season in 2022, when he was represented by the top-rated turf horse in the world, Baaeed (GB), as well as his full-brother and G1 Coronation Cup winner Hukum (GB), and the fellow Group 1 winners Emily Upjohn (GB) and Sea La Rosa (Ire). 

The five members of the Aga Khan Studs broodmare band to be heading his way including Vaderana (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}), the dam of 2022 Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old, Vadeni. She will be joined by Zaykava (Fr), who is a Listed winner and the result of the aforementioned Siyouni and Zarkava mating. 

Haparanda (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), a stakes winner out of a half-sister to Sea The Stars's dual Derby-winning son Harzand (Ire), is also on his list, along with Tasalka (Fr), a winning Lope De Vega (Ire) half-sister to the dam of Tarnawa and Tahiyra; and the recently retired Ebba (Fr) (Medaglia d'Oro), a winning half-sister to Ebaiyra.

The Aga Khan once famously described his sensational race mare Zarkava as “the greatest gift a breeder could have” and in her second career she has continued to give. Zarkava's Group 1-winning son Zarak (Fr) is now one of the most sought-after young stallions in Europe and, with his third crop set to race this year, he will be sent 15 of the Aga Khan's broodmare band this covering season.

The G1 Dubai Sheena Classic winner Dolniya (Fr) (Azamour {Ire}) and her dam Daltama (Ire) (Indian Ridge {GB}) are among them, along with the Ebaiyra's Group 2-winning dam winners Ebiyza (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) and G3 Athasi S. winner Emiyna (Maria's Mon). Also on the list is Siyouni's Galileo half-sister Sayana (Fr), and Erdana (Fr), a Sea The Stars half-sister to Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed Erevann (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}).

Included on the list of well-bred young Aga Khan mares being sent to Haras de Bonneval resident Dariyan (Fr) this season are Kerasia (Fr) (Zoustar {Aus}), a daughter of the stakes-winning Oasis Dream (GB) mare Kerasona (Fr), and Vedaska (Fr), who is by Siyouni out of the Listed Prix Isonomy winner Vedouma (Fr) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and from the family of Vadeni.

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Santa Anita Adds Thursday Card

Following the cancellation of racing Feb. 25 and 26, the California Horse Racing Board has granted Santa Anita permission to add a card for this coming Thursday. A pair of $72,000 allowance races will highlight Thursday's program, which has a first post time of 12:30 p.m. Race six, for fillies and mares bred or sired in California, has attracted a field of seven at six furlongs on the main track. Thursday's seventh race, for older horses at a mile and one quarter over the Camino Real Turf Course, attracted a field of nine.

Santa Anita will offer free General Admission and Parking, as well as $3 beers and $5 margaritas, on both Thursday and Friday.

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