SHAADI was a high-class three-year-old colt in 1989. Bought for $900,000 as a yearling by Sheikh Mohammed, he was born towards the end of May but showed even at two that he was a colt of above-average ability. A son Danzig and out of a daughter of Hoist The Flag, he went on at three to land the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot after winning the Irish 2000 Guineas.

Though he had enough opportunities at stud in England and Japan, overall he was a disappointment as a stallion. Today he is probably best remembered as the broodmare sire of the Dubai World Cup winner Moon Ballad. Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Shaadi was ridden in all his races by Walter Swinburn.