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Pedigree Insights for Oct. 24

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4th-MTH, $45K, Msw, 2yo, 1mT, 2:09 p.m. ET
Proxy (Tapit) is the latest foal out of versatile Panty Raid (Include), a highest-level winner on turf and synthetic and Grade II winner on the dirt. A $2.5-million Fasig-Tipton November buy in 2008, Panty Raid’s 3-year-old daughter Micheline (Bernardini) broke her maiden in the course-and-distance Sorority S. last September. More recently, the fellow Godolphin homebred and Mike Stidham trainee took the Sept. 10 Dueling Grounds Oaks at Kentucky Downs before finishing a close second in Keeneland’s GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. a month later. Chad Brown-trained firster Empire of the Sun (Pioneerof the Nile), a $250,000 KEESEP buy, is out of GSW Brownie Points (Forest Wildcat). She’s a half to hard-knocking Stidham trainee and near millionaire MGSW/GISP Synchrony (Tapit) as well as GSW Chocolate Kisses (Candy Ride {Arg}). TJCIS PPs

10th-KEE, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 6:03 p.m. ET
Macron (Frosted) makes his first start in the regular meet’s final race for Steve Asmussen and the Heiligbrodts. The half-brother to Grade I-winning turfer Egg Drop (Alphabet Soup) was a $210,000 KEESEP acquisition and $420,000 OBS March buyback after a sharp :10 flat breeze. Juddmonte homebred Mandaloun (Into Mischief) is out of the Irish Group 2 winner Brooch (Empire Maker). His second dam was a precocious 2-year-old stakes winner and full to Irish Group 1 winner and middle-distance highweight Emulous (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Calumet Farm’s Kentucky Pharoah (American Pharoah) was entered and scratched from a rained-off route on Thursday (he was already entered in this spot before that one came off the grass). Calumet paid $200,000 for dam Strut the Course (Strut the Stage), Canada’s 2014 champion older mare and a dual Grade II winner on the lawn, at KEENOV ’16. This is her first foal. Americanrevolution (Constitution) was a $275,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga buy by WinStar Farm and China Horse Club. He’s out of a half-sister to MGSW Gouldings Green (Charismatic) as well as the SW/GSP dam of three-time two-turn graded stakes winner Silver Dust (Tapit). Farther down the chestnut’s page are MGISW Stop Traffic (Cure the Blues) and her MGISW son and sire Cross Traffic (Unbridled’s Song). Conditioner Rodolphe Brisset sent out debut winner Eucharist (Flatter) for WinStar here Oct. 4. TJCIS PPs

9th-SA, $55K, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 8:07 p.m. ET
Bob Baffert and the powerful conglomerate of SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Golconda Stables, Siena Farm and Robert Masterson will be represented here by rail-drawn Classier (Empire Maker). The $775,000 KEESEP buy is out of a half-sister to the dam of French and U.S. GSW/MGISP Homerique (Exchange Rate). His third dam produced Group 1 winner White Moonstone (Dynaformer). Classier prepped for this with a head-turning six-furlong gate work in 1:12.40 (XBTV Video) on Monday. North Pole (Pioneerof the Nile) cost $1,050,000 at the same September sale. The Simon Callaghan trainee was second on debut at Del Mar Aug. 16. His multiple stakes-winning dam Uptown Twirl (Twirling Candy) is a half to champion juvenile Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) and was purchased for $1,075,000 at Keeneland November by North Pole’s breeder and co-owner Three Chimneys Farm days after Classic Empire took the 2016 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile over this same strip. Union Soldier (Union Rags), a $650,000 September grad, goesturf to dirt and sprint to route off a late-closing sixth-place debut run at Del Mar Sept. 7. His GSW dam Sky Girl (Sky Mesa) is a half to champion and MGISW Abel Tasman (Quality Road), who was trained first by Callaghan and then by Baffert. TJCIS PPs

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Ruled Out Of Breeders’ Cup Due To Muscle Soreness, Ghaiyyath Retired To Stud

Ghaiyyath, the son of Dubawi who put up not one, not two, but three of the four best performances of any racehorse in the world this year, has been retired from racing and will stand at Kildangan Stud next year.

He retires with four G1 victories to his name, three of which he won this year – and all in outstanding fashion: The Coronation Cup, the Eclipse and the Juddmonte International.

Ghaiyyath was a high-class juvenile, breaking his maiden at Newmarket by five lengths before going on to take the G3 Autumn Stakes in October 2017.

Charlie Appleby's charge won the G3 Prix du Prince d'Orange in an unbeaten three-year-old campaign, before reappearing at four to win the G2 Prix d'Harcourt.

Last September, Ghaiyyath recorded his first G1 victory in sensational style, winning the Grosser Preis von Baden by an astounding 14 lengths. This was the best performance in Germany this century.

Ghaiyyath has flourished this year, kicking off his 2020 campaign with another wide-margin Group win, this time taking the Dubai Millennium Stakes at Meydan by eight and a half lengths.

Upon his return to Europe, he added a second top-flight victory to his record, breaking the course record at Newmarket in the G1 Coronation Cup, beating Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck.

Better was still to come, as he beat a field of the highest class in the G1 Eclipse, including Enable, earning him a Timeform rating of 133.

His fourth G1 win came at York this August, where he won a vintage renewal of the Juddmonte International by three lengths, once again making every yard of the running.

Charlie Appleby reported that the plan had been to look towards the Breeders' Cup but in preparation for the race, after a piece of routine work at the weekend, the horse showed signs of soreness behind. After veterinary investigation, the horse was found to be muscle sore.

Charlie Appleby said: “Ghaiyyath has had a fantastic career, winning nine of his 13 races. His high-class cruising speed and relentless style of galloping was a joy to watch and as I have said before, this year he came together both physically and mentally and looked the finished article. It is obviously disappointing not to be taking him to the Breeders' Cup but the exertions of a long season, which started in Dubai in January, were starting to show and the decision has been made to retire him.

“He was an outstanding part of the Moulton Paddocks team and I know that his numerous top-level successes gave our Principal, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed, a great deal of pleasure.”

Joe Osborne, Managing Director of Godolphin in Ireland, said, “Ghaiyyath is a great addition to our roster: his superior ability as a racehorse combined with his looks and his pedigree will make him a sought-after option for breeders. We are delighted he will be standing at Kildangan Stud next season.”

Ghaiyyath is bred on the same hugely successful Dubawi/ Galileo cross that has also produced Classic winner and sire of the moment Night Of Thunder.

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Ghaiyyath Retired To Kildangan

Four-time Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}-Nightime {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) has been retired from racing after exhibiting muscle soreness. He will stand at Darley’s Kildangan Stud next year.

Bred by the Weld family’s Springbank Way Stud, Ghaiyyath was a standout from the start being out of the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Nightime. He cost Godolphin €1.1-million at the 2015 Goffs November Foal Sale and showed promise soon after joining trainer Charlie Appleby, breaking his maiden at second asking at two before taking the G3 Autumn S. Ghaiyyath ran just once at three, winning the G3 Prix du Prince d’Orange, and after taking the G2 Prix d’Harcourt to kick off his 4-year-old campaign he made waves when winning the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden by 14 lengths. That performance prompted a 2019 G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe bid, but after making the running over the very soft going Ghaiyyath faded to tenth.

The bay put that blip-his only off-the-board finish in 13 starts-firmly behind him this year as a 5-year-old, however. After kicking off proceedings with an 8 1/2-length score in the G3 Dubai Millennium S. in February, he returned to Europe to best last year’s G1 Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Coronation Cup and none other than Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) in the G1 Coral-Eclipse and Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Juddmonte International. Ghaiyyath was last seen finishing second to Magical in the G1 Irish Champion S. on Sept. 12, and had been set for a bid at the Breeders’ Cup before his setback.

“Ghaiyyath has had a fantastic career winning nine of his 13 races,” said Appleby. “His high-class cruising speed and relentless style of galloping was a joy to watch and as I have said before, this year he came together both physically and mentally and looked the finished article. It is obviously disappointing not to be taking him to the Breeders’ Cup but the exertions of a long season, which started in Dubai in January, were starting to show and the decision has been made to retire him. He was an outstanding part of the Moulton Paddocks team and I know that his numerous top-level successes gave our principal, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed, a great deal of pleasure.”

Ghaiyyath is bred on the same Dubawi over Galileo cross that has produced Darley’s exciting young sire Night Of Thunder (Ire). Ghaiyyath’s page was enhanced after his purchase as a foal when his half-sister Zhukova (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) won a pair of Group 3s in Ireland for Dermot Weld and the GI Man O’ War S. in the U.S. before being bought by Godolphin for 3.7-million gns at Tattersalls December in 2017. Zhukova has yearling and colt foals by Dubawi, while Nightime has a yearling full-brother to Ghaiyyath bought by Godolphin for €1.2-million from Goffs November last year and a colt foal by Kingman (GB) slated to sell at the same sale next month.

Joe Osborne, managing director of Godolphin in Ireland, said, “Ghaiyyath is a great addition to our roster: his superior ability as a racehorse combined with his looks and his pedigree will make him a sought-after option for breeders. We are delighted he will be standing at Kildangan Stud next season.”

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Benbatl Out of British Champions Day

Godolphin’s MG1SW Benbatl (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) will not take part in British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday due to the projected soft ground. Favoured in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. in 2019, he ran last in very soft underfoot conditions. The QEII or the G1 Champion S. had been options for the English, German and UAE highweight. A winner of Group 1s in Australia, the UAE and Germany, Benbatl will now point to the Dubai World Cup Carnival. He won the G2 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 2 in March and followed up with a third in the inaugural $20-million Saudi Cup. His only run in the UK this term was a third in the G2 Joel S. at Newmarket on Sept. 25.

“There was no point running him at Ascot [this weekend]–we ran him last year, and he hated it,” said trainer Saeed Bin Suroor. “We were keen to run, [and] he’d been working well, but we know he doesn’t like soft ground.

“He won’t go to the Breeders’ Cup. We’ll take him back to Dubai, prepare him for races out there for him. We’ve had a bit of a wasted season. Saudi Arabia is [also] one of the options for him, like last year.”

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