IT has become the norm this year to speak of Godolphin in terms of their spectacular success on the racetrack.

They are most certainly having a year to remember, and their winning streak continued last weekend in Canada where they won both Grade 1 races for two-year-olds, and with homebreds.

The gelded Albahr added the Summer Stakes at Woodbine to his three victories in England, one of which came in the Listed Stonehenge Stakes at Salisbury. His elevation to the top tier also earned him a free run in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar should connections decide to take it up.

Albahr was joined on the winners’ roster for Godolphin across the Atlantic by another son of Dubawi (Dubai Millennium), Yibir winning the $1 million Jockey Club Derby Invitational at Belmont Park, though this race does not have graded stakes status.

This success for Albahr brings to 45 the number of Group or Grade 1 winners sired by Dubawi, and the gelding is from his 13th crop of racing age. Dubawi gained two of his three Group 1 victories in Ireland, beating Berenson in the National Stakes and Oratorio in the Irish 2000 Guineas. Whipper chased him home in the Prix Jacques Le Marois. Whatever he achieved on the racecourse is as nothing compared to his success as a stallion.

Any aspirations to being on the stallion roster for Darley in time have been dashed now for Albahr, as they were for his half-brother Cascadian (New Approach) who suffered the unkindest cut of all at the age of three. This might have seemed a strange move, given that the Fabre-trained colt (as he was) had run second in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat, and looked very useful.

After he was cut, Cascadian was sent to join James Cummings in Australia. The six-year-old was fifth in a Group 1 there at the weekend, but more significantly he is a winner at that level down under, his career total of six successes being headlined by his victory in the Group 1 Doncaster Mile Handicap at Randwick. He has amassed earnings of £1.6 million and that is likely to grow.

With her first four foals being winners, and two of them at the highest level, Falls Of Lora is on her way to becoming one of the breeding shed’s super mares. Cascadian was her first-born, Albahr is her fourth, and they are followed by a yearling own-brother to Cascadian, and a filly foal by Dubawi’s son Too Darn Hot. The winning formulas are there and being repeated.

Group 1 winners

Falls Of Lora is a daughter of Street Cry (Machiavellian) and she was three times a winner in England, including at listed level. Her sole success in the UAE was gained in their Group 3 Oaks. She is one of four stakes winners out of the listed winner Firth Of Lorne (Danehill). A look at that mare’s race record and of her offspring and you realise that, but for a few lengths, this is a family that could have been frontloaded with Group 1 winners.

Firth Of Lorne was beaten a length by Zenda in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches-French 1000 Guineas, her son Latharnach (Iffraaj) was two and a half lengths second to Gleneagles in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes, while her three-year-old Master Of The Seas (Dubawi) was denied victory in this year’s Group 1 2000 Guineas by a short head by Poetic Flare. It is only right that their sibling Falls Of Lora now has two top-level winners.

That seconditis extends to Albahr’s third dam Herrera (Diesis). She won the Group 3 Cherry Hinton Stakes at two and the following spring was beaten less than a length by Musical Bliss in the 1989 Group 1 1000 Guineas. Firth Of Lorne was the best of her seven winning offspring, while her unraced daughter June Moon (Sadler’s Wells) produced the Group 2 Premio Parioli-Italian 2000 Guineas winner Dupont (Zafonic) and his German Group 2 winning full-brother Pacino.

Wild Beauty

Juddmonte’s Frankel, one of the greatest racehorses in the history of the turf, is making an equally dominant impression at stud. His sixth crop are now two-year-olds and he is closely following the path already trodden by Dubawi in terms of winners at the highest level.

His juvenile daughter Wild Beauty’s win in the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes at Woodbine was Frankel’s 19th such winner, though she was recording her first stakes win of any kind, having won twice and been group-placed in England.

Wild Beauty is also the third Group 1 winner bred on the Frankel/Pivotal cross, joining two other fillies, the dual Australian Group 1 heroine Hungry Heart, and Falmouth Stakes winner Veracious.

Wild Beauty is, just like Albahr, the fourth foal of her dam Tulips. She comes from a line that has been cultivated by, and been successful for, Sheikh Mohammed for over three decades. Tulips was a stakes winner at Fontainebleau in France and runner-up in a couple of Group 3 races. Her first foal, and the first of three winners, was Swift Rose (Invincible Spirit) who was second in the Group 3 UAE Oaks. This year Tulips welcomed an own-brother by Frankel (Galileo) to Wild Beauty.

Tulips is the first foal of the winning Hint Of Spring (Seeking The Gold), and that mare was then sent to Japan where she is the dam of three more winners.

Hint Of Spring, in turn, is a daughter of Sheikh Mohammed’s homebred Cherokee Rose (Dancing Brave), winner of the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup and the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest. She was also runner-up in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp.

Impact

Cherokee Rose went on at stud to make an impact. Her six winners included the Group 3 winner and Group 1 classic-placed Bowman (Irish River), and the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint runner-up Ahtoug (Byron), but it is through her daughters that she is being most influential. Two in particular are worth special mention, Moyesii (Diesis) and Rose De France (Diktat).

Moyesii won in France and she is the dam of a pair of Group 1 winners, Kirkless (Jade Robbery) and Mastery (Sulamani). The former won his Group 1 as a two-year-old in Italy, while Mastery captured the St Leger at Doncaster and the Hong Kong Vase. A further Group 1 success was credited to the family when Moyesii’s daughter Magic Tree (Timber Country) produced the Coral Eclipse winning colt Mukhadram (Shamardal).

Cherokee Rose’s daughter Rose Of France was placed a number of times but her offspring are headed by the multiple Group 2 winner in Australia, Sea Wolf (Amadeus Wolf), and Highclere Stud’s Group 2 winner and Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes runner-up Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit).