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City Of Light’s ‘Mimi’ Crowned Queen In The UAE Oaks

  A winner of the Listed UAE 1000 Guineas when last seen, MIMI KAKUSHI (City Of Light-Rite Moment, by Vicar) turned in a game effort to wear down California shipper Ami Please (Goldencents) and win the G3 UAE Oaks by 1 1/4 lengths at Meydan on Friday. She is the eighth filly to complete the Guineas/Oaks double, and first since subsequent American graded winner Shahama (Munnings) in 2022, who was also trained by Salem bin Ghadayer.

Racing for Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, the bay stalked from second as Ami Please crossed over to lead heading into the clubhouse turn. Rival Asawer (Nyquist), fourth in the UAE 1000 Guineas, exchanged some bumps with Mimi Kakushi on the backstretch as they chased the pacesetter. By the far turn, it was a line of three with Mimi Kakushi sandwiched between foes, but pilot Mickael Barzalona did not panic in the tight quarters, which began to ease as Asawer faded leaving the bend.

Mimi Kakushi locked horns with Ami Please at the quarter-pole, and the pair battled hammer and tongs until midstretch. At the 150-metre mark, Mimi Kakushi inched ahead of Ami Please, and eventually crossed the wire about a length to the good of that filly. Asawer hung on for third, a distant four lengths back.

Fourth in her first two local tries in November and December, the Woodford Thoroughbreds-bred graduated by two lengths over Asawer in the UAE 1000 Guineas Trial on Dec. 23. She increased her winning margin to 4 1/2 lengths in the Listed UAE 1000 Guineas on Jan. 20.

Pedigree Notes

The first graded/group winner for her Breeders' Cup-winning sire who stands at Lane's End Farm in Kentucky, Mimi Kakushi is one of four stakes winners overall. City Of Light's eldest foals just turned three. Wild Again stallion Vicar, a winner of the GI Fountain Of Youth S. and GI Florida Derby in 1999, has sired 15 stakes winners as a broodmare sire, with Mimi Kakushi joining Vicar's In Trouble (Into Mischief) and Sandbar (War Pass) as graded/group winners.

A $180,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Select yearling turned $250,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile (breeze video), Mimi Kakushi is a half-sister to three-time stakes winner Moment Is Right (Medaglia d'Oro), and the stakes-winning Laudation (Congrats). Her dam, who won both the Bed o' Roses H. and Distaff H. at Aqueduct at Grade II level, has a yearling filly by Cajun Breeze. Her 2023 offspring, by Khozan, was born dead. Sales history: $180,000 Ylg '21 FTKJUL; $250,000 2yo '22 FTIMAY. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0.

O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum. B-Woodford Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY). T-Salem bin Ghadayer.

 

 

 

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City of Light’s Mimi Kakushi Too Strong in UAE 1000 Guineas

Having celebrated a maiden-breaking victory in the UAE 1000 Guineas Trial over seven furlongs Dec. 23, MIMI KAKUSHI (f, 3, City of Light–Rite Moment, by Vicar) ran out a convincing 4 1/2-length winner of Friday's $150,000 Listed UAE 1000 Guineas at Meydan. The bay, fourth in her first two trips to the races over sprint distances in November and early December, jumped well enough for Mickael Barzalona, but was beaten for speed by Awasef (Cairo Prince) to the outside and was ultimately eased back and into the two path to chase from second. Shadowing the pacesetter into the final 700 meters, Mimi Kakushi was roused to the front with a quarter-mile to travel and put the race to bed while striding readily clear. Awasef held second ahead of the one-start maiden Unjokable (Practical Joke).

“She was happy to be on the pace and the extra furlong was a help as well,” said Barzalona, winning this race for the second time after Nashmiah in 2017. “I think she will run a good race in the [1900m] UAE Oaks too.”

Bin Ghadayer added, “We have four weeks until the Oaks which is enough time for a rest; she will just need one breeze before the race. She is the best filly I've trained.”

A $180,000 purchase out of the 2021 Fasig-Tipton October Yearling Sale, Mimi Kakushi was hammered down for $250,000 at that same auction house's Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale after breezing a furlong in :10 1/5 over the Timonium dirt track. A fourth stakes winner for her sire (by Quality Road), Mimi Kakushi is a half-sister to dual black-type winner Moment Is Right (Medaglia d'Oro) and SW Laudation (Congrats). Rite Moment is also the dam of a yearling filly by Cajun Breeze and is due to Khozan this term.

Friday's Results:
UAE 1000 GUINEAS PRESENTED BY ARN-Listed, $150,000, Meydan, 1-20, 3yo, f, 8f, 1:39.48, fs.
1–MIMI KAKUSHI, 126, f, 3, by City Of Light
1st Dam: Rite Moment (MGSW-US, $399,303), by Vicar
2nd Dam: Moments Of Joy, by Lost Code
3rd Dam: Valiant Sweetheart, by Danzig
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($180,000 Ylg '21 FTKJUL; $250,000 2yo
'22 FTIMAY). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum;
B-Woodford Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY); T-Salem bin Ghadayer;
J-Mickael Barzalona. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-0,
$122,701. *1/2 to Moment Is Right (Medaglia d'Oro),
MSW-US, $228,445; and Laudation (Congrats), SW-US,
$100,840.
2–Awasef, 126, f, 3, Cairo Prince–Darling Sky, by Sky Mesa.
1ST BLACK TYPE. ($100,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR). O-Al Rashid
Stables LLC; B-Namcook Stables, Paul Braverman & Tim Pinch
(KY); T-Doug Watson. $30,000.
3–Unjokable, 126, f, 3, Practical Joke–Willowbern, by
Bernardini. 1ST BLACK TYPE. ($100,000 2yo '22 FTIMAY).
O-Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum; B-Haymarket Farm LLC
(KY); T-Ahmad bin Harmash. $15,000.
Margins: 4HF, 5, 2 3/4.
Also Ran: Asawer, Nafas, Cite d'Or (Fr). Scratched: Here We Are.
MEY4: VIDEO.

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Frosted Firster Graduates Impressively At Jebel Ali

4th-Jebel Ali, AED60,000, Maiden, 2yo, 1000m, 1:00.21, ft.
RAZEEN DUBAI (c, 2, Frosted–War Poppy, by Discreet Cat) opened his account in promising fashion at first asking Friday at Jebel Ali. Given a positive ride by Royston Ffrench, the Pennsylvania-bred stayed on strongly up the rise through the final stages to defeat Classic City (Constitution) by a convincing five lengths. The winner's dam, a daughter of the classy War Thief (Lord At War {Arg}), was purchased for $85,000 in foal to Animal Kingdom at Keeneland November in 2017. She is also the dam of a yearling colt by Runhappy, a weanling colt by Palace Malice and was most recently covered by Flatter. Sales history: $18,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; €69,600 2yo '21 ARQMAY. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $9,803.  Click for the Emiratesracing.com chart.
O-Saeed Sultan Al Rahoomi; B-Jon A Marshall (PA); T-Salem bin Ghadayer.

 

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Breeze-Up Consignors Have Eye On Dubai

Breeze-up consignors shopping at this season's yearling sales will have a new and innovative target to aim at with the news late last month that the Dubai Racing Club will host the first-ever Dubai World Cup Breeze-Up Sale in association with Goffs next Mar. 24, two days prior to Dubai World Cup day at Meydan. The sale will have a maximum 69 2-year-olds catalogued.

Horses in training are offered twice a year in Dubai through the Emirates Racing Authority Racing in Dubai sales, but the Dubai World Cup sale will be the first breeze-up sale in the Middle East, and the first sale in the region where young stock is actively recruited internationally and handpicked for the circuit.

The sale was the brainchild of Goffs Client Relations Agent Tom Taaffe, who worked with Dubai trainer Salem bin Ghadayer to get the idea off the ground.

“I raised the idea to Salem bin Ghadayer who trains in Dubai and is a close confidant to Sheikh Mohammed,” said Taaffe, who is at Keeneland this week promoting the sale. “I talked with Salem about the idea; we had maybe an hour-long chat and then we met a few evenings afterwards to discuss it. Salem presented the idea to Sheikh Rashid [bin Dalmook al Maktoum, chairman of the Dubai Racing Club and] nephew of Sheikh Mohammed, and His Highness embraced the idea.”

“We worked on the plan and we worked on the ethos of it and how it could be successful for everybody and His Highness thought it was a good idea, and thought we could make a statement on how to have a sale in that part of the world,” Taaffe added.

Entries for the Dubai World Cup Breeze-Up Sale will close on Dec. 1, and Taaffe said he is hopeful the selection process will be completed by early January. All horses selected for the sale will undergo a full veterinary examination prior to traveling to Dubai at the expense of the Dubai Racing Club to aid in transparency and buyer confidence.

The 2-year-olds will quarantine at Meydan for three days prior to a practice breeze day on Mar. 21, and the official breeze day-though without official times-will take place on Mar. 22. Mar. 23 will be an inspection day, with the sale taking place on Mar. 24 before an international audience in town for the Dubai World Cup.

“I traveled out a couple different times to get the logistics right,” Taaffe said. “I'm happy that's all gone very well. The Dubai Racing Club are running the sale along with Goffs, and we were honored to be chosen to partner with them. Mohammed Essa, the major general of the Dubai Racing Club, Hamad Alshamsi, the deputy general and the Events Organizing Manger Evita Correa are a particularly good team and they've been extremely courteous with their time and their help to make this a successful sale. We have a great partnership and great working relationship with them.”

“We think it's an exciting idea,” Taaffe added. “Everyone over there is excited too and they tell me they're getting great feedback from the GCC countries, and the Russians and Chechens will be there to participate, too. We're certainly getting good feedback as well, so we're positive six months out.”

Taaffe noted that the Irish pinhookers who made it to Keeneland were shopping with the Dubai Breeze-Up Sale in their minds, a sentiment echoed by Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Chief Executive Officer Charles O'Neill. Taaffe said the ideal candidate for the sale would be a horse suited for the longevity of a Dubai racing career.

“We're looking for six-and-a-half furlong to a mile-and-two type horses and good, solid horses that can train for four or five seasons,” he said. “We don't need fragile horses; we need a solid block of a horse that can train for a number of years and win races and prizemoney and run over a duration. We're not looking for a Queen Mary horse; it would be our intention to not have that included. The breeze-up guys are great at what they do and they'll know what will suit.

“The horse we're talking about will have a bit of pedigree and have a good action. It has to be a good physical. Salem and Sheikh Rashid and I will make sure there are nice horses there on a broad spectrum. I want it to do well because we have much bigger plans for year two and year three to expand the sale and His Highness is very keen for that to happen if it goes right, so I'm going to make sure it goes right.”

The Dubai World Cup Breeze-Up Sale will provide a unique opportunity for horsepeople in the Gulf region to get their hands on youngstock handpicked to suit their racing programmes.

“We're going into an area of very wealthy clientele, and the whole ethos was that they've never had the opportunity to buy the raw material,” Taaffe said. “Sheikh Mohammed has decided that this is the time he'd like to make a world statement in establishing a sale and growing it as an international sale, not just for the GCC countries. It might be for the GCC countries to start, but people will begin to realize this is a serious sale with serious horses.”

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