DUBAWI ranks among the top two or three stallions in the world, with a number of ways to measure such an achievement. Any way you look at it, he takes top rank and just over two weeks ago at Chantilly he achieved the remarkable landmark of having his 100th individual group winner when Crown Walk triumphed in the Group 3 Prix Chloe. Once again, I was fortunate last week to see Dubawi at the Darley stallion parade in Newmarket.

To cap her success the three-year-old Crown Walk won in the Godolphin blue of Sheikh Mohammed. Dubawi’s crowning achievement as a racehorse was to win the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville and he earlier won the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas. His winners include Monterosso, the Group 1 Dubai World Cup winner; Postponed who won the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes; Al Kazeem who landed the Group 1 Coral Eclipse Stakes; and Akeed Mofeed, successful in the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup - a truly international array.