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Sheikha Hissa Announces Death Of Sarayir

Sarayir (Mr. Prospector), a daughter of champion Height of Fashion {Fr}) (Bustino {GB}) and the dam of 2009 G1 1000 Guineas heroine Ghanaati (Giant's Causeway), has passed away, Sheikha Hissa Hamdan tweeted Friday. She was 29 years old.

A half-sister to the likes of Nashwan, Unfuwain, Alwasmi, Mukddam and Nayef, Sarayir won her maiden and the Listed Oh So Sharp S. at two for Major Dick Hern and added a third career success as a 3-year-old in 1997. The first of her produce to make an impact at the races was her foal of 2005 Mawatheeq (Danzig), winner of the G3 Cumberland Lodge S. and runner-up in the G1 Champion S. for trainer Marcus Tregoning.

Foaled in 2006, Ghanaati was conditioned by Barry Hills to three wins from six trips to the races, graduating by a half-dozen lengths at second asking in 2008 before taking the 1000 Guineas and G1 Coronation S. in succession the following season. Ghanaati would go on to produce G2 Joel S. hero Mutasaabeq (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and Wafy (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), winner in Dubai of the G3 Mahab Al Shimaal S.

Rumoush (Rahy) continued Sarayir's streak of breeding shed success, winning the Listed Feilden S. for Tregoning before crossing the line in fourth, but placed third via disqualification, behind Snow Fairy (Ire) in the 2010 G1 Investec Epsom Oaks. Rumoush was also third in the G3 Prix de Psyche in France and second in the G2 Park Hill S. before going on to account for multiple Dubai Group 3 winner Muntazah (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), G3 City of York S. heroine Talaayeb (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and listed winner Wadilsafa (GB) (Frankel {GB}). This is also the female family of German Group 1 winner Wind in Her Hair (Alzao), famously the dam of the outstanding Deep Impact (Jpn), and of Miqyaas (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), expected to run in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint next weekend.

Sarayir, a full-sister to Baaeed (GB)'s fourth dam Bashayer, was the granddam of the stakes-winning Zawraq (Ire) (Shamardal), G2 Queen Mary S. winner and 1000 Guineas G1 Cheveley Park S. third Maqaasid (GB) (Green Desert). She was the third dam of G1 Sydney Cup victor Shraaoh (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and G3 Bahrain Trophy hero Raheen House (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}).

“Thank you for everything sweet girl, we already miss you,” Sheikha Hissa tweeted.

 

 

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Carson Remembers “Gentleman” Sheikh Hamdan

A day removed from the death of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the age of 75, Willie Carson-his former retained rider who rode many of his great stars of the late 1980s and 1990s-remembered his former boss as “a gentleman, a really nice man.”

Carson recalled on Sky Sports Racing how the appointment with Sheikh Hamdan pulled him back from the brink of retirement.

“The lease was not going to be renewed for [trainer Dick Hern's] West Ilsley stables and Dick was a bit taken aback by that and the first thing he said was, 'I'm retiring.' I thought, 'it looks like I'd better retire as well.' That was just coming into our minds at that time, but after riding a piece of work at Newbury racecourse, Angus Gold, Sheikh Hamdan's racing manager, was there and I first mentioned–it might have been a bit of a joke, but maybe not–'why don't you ask Hamdan if I could be his retained jockey?' And that's how it happened.”

Carson enjoyed a dream run at the turn of the decade as the raceday pilot of the likes of Nashwan, Dayjur, Erhaab and Salsabil. He recalled Nashwan's victory in the 1989 G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond S., the horse's fourth consecutive Group 1 win of the season.

“We made [the King George] into a sprint that day because he had those four Group 1 races in three months and he shouldn't have run in the race because he was tired and he never really recovered from that. But what a magnificent mover he was.”

Of Dayjur, one of the best-ever sprinters, Carson added, “[Dayjur] was the fastest I've ever ridden and I would say the fastest anyone has ever ridden. When the track record was broken at York by his own horse [Battaash in the 2019 Nunthorpe], by a tenth of a second, straight away Hamdan said, 'Dayjur had a headwind.' He didn't want anything taken away from Dayjur.”

“He was a man who enjoyed not just winning races, he enjoyed the breeding side–he enjoyed knowing about his horses,” Carson added. “If there was a really important piece of work before a big race, he'd be ringing up from Dubai to ask how it went, what your feelings were and how the horse was. He was interested in the horse. What a brain he had–sharp, but a very compassionate man.

“It's not just a major loss–it's a gigantic loss. People in the racing industry will be very sad to hear of his passing, he was possibly one of the biggest well-thought of names worldwide. He would try to buy the best horses for his trainers and he was very loyal to anyone who started training for him. He always kept going back and giving them more yearlings.”

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