THERE were a pair of Irish-bred winners on Dubai World Cup night, Broome and Danyah. The former is a regular in this column, while Danyah is making his debut.

Success for the six-year-old gelding Danyah in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan gave his veteran sire Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), a hale and hearty 26-year-old at the Irish National Stud, his 22nd winner at racing’s highest level. That tally started when Lawman, a member of his first crop, won the 10 and a half furlong Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby in 2007, and then dropped back five week later to a mile and captured the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat.

We all know at this stage that not only has Invincible Spirit become an outstanding sire and a leading broodmare sire, but his sons are most sought after for stud duties. Kingman is his best son at stud in Europe and his reputation grows year on year, while in the southern hemisphere I Am Invincible, a Group 3 winner from his first crop down there, is the sire of 13 Group 1 winners.

Danyah will not have a chance at stud, and his win at the weekend was a clear-cut career highlight.

Trained by Owen Burrows, this Shadwell homebred was a consistent performer over three seasons, winning four times, though it was clear that he was improving with age.

At four he chased Highfield Princess home in the Buckingham Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, but his only start in stakes company was a disappointment.

After a break from racing of almost 450 days, he reappeared this season in the UAE, and on his debut was runner-up to Prince Eiji in the Listed Dubai Creek Mile at Meydan. Two starts later he won a listed contest at the same venue, and now he is a Group 1 winner on what was his fifth local outing, all at Meydan.

Cuis Ghaire

Danyah is one of four winners out of the Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) mare Cuis Ghaire. That Jim Bolger homebred was a leading two-year-old 15 years ago when she won her first three starts, including a Group 3 at Naas and the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot. She was odd-on favourite to add the Group 3 Tyros Stakes at Leopardstown but had to settle for second behind Rip Van Winkle.

On her three-year-old bow she was runner-up to Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Ghaanati in the Group 1 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, but failed to reproduce that level of performance in two subsequent runs. After that she was acquired by Shadwell and had six foals for them before she died at the age of 13.

Cuis Ghaire is one of seven winners produced by the unraced Scibonia (Danehill), and four of her siblings earned blacktype, and all were sired by Galileo. Scintillula, like Cuis Ghaire, was a Group 3 winner who came close to a Group 1 success, in her case carrying Kirsten Rausing’s silks to second place, behind Sky Lantern, in the Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Their full-brother The Major General (Galileo), a €1.5 million yearling purchase by MV Magnier, was a stakes winner at three.

Jim Bolger

This is a female line that is inextricably linked to Jim Bolger. Danyah’s third dam Smaoineamh (Tap On Wood) was a stakes-winning dam of Luminata (Indian Ridge), runner-up in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, and she is the third dam also of Bolger’s Group 1 National Stakes winner Verbal Dexterity (Vocalised). Smaoineamh is a daughter of the French classic-placed Fanghorn (Crocket). She bred seven winners, a feat achieved by each of Cuis Ghaire’s first three dams, and her best was the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes and Prix de l’Abbaye winner Double Form (Habitat).

Descending from Fanghorn’s daughters have been a host of Group 1 winners, Danyah being the latest. Previous stars of the track who share her as their taproot are Phoenix Stakes winner Eva Luna (Double Schwartz), Loch Garman (Teofilo), Sholokhov (Sadler’s Wells), classic winner Soldier Of Fortune (Galileo), Intense Focus (Giant’s Causeway), and Kitten’s Dumplings (Kitten’s Joy).

IF Danyah’s win was something of a surprise, then that of Broome (Australia) in the Group 2 Dubai Gold Cup was not, though the seven-year-old entire had not won since his success in last summer’s Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot. In the interim he had been back to Ascot, travelled to both Saratoga and Keeneland in the USA, run at ParisLongchamp, and made a couple of longer trips to Hong Kong and Doha in Qatar.

These, along with a visit to Tokyo, are a long way from his racecourse debut in Killarney, and his first win at Galway. Thirty-two starts have yielded nine victories, notably the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, but look at the races in which he has been runner-up, the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf, Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at two.

All of these efforts have meant that he has paid for first-class travel around the world, earning connections some €2.5 million. He has surely been the apple of his breeder’s eye, that of Denis Brosnan. He bred Broome from the Acclamation (Royal Applause) mare Sweepstake, whom he purchased at Keeneland for $280,000, carrying a colt, Horseshoe Bay (Arch) who paid for the transaction when he sold as a yearling for 250,000gns.

Since then Sweepstake has lived up to her name, and her stock in the sale ring have brought 575,000gns (Point Lonsdale), €500,000, 475,000gns, but these were as nothing to last year’s Frankel (Galileo) yearling colt who was sold to MV Magnier and Peter Brant for a cool 2,400,000gns, the most that Brosnan’s Croom House Stud has ever received for a yearling at public auction.

Point Lonsdale

This price was helped by the fact that, in addition to Broome being a Group 1 winner, Point Lonsdale (Australia) won four times at two, including the Group 2 Futurity Stakes, Group 3 Tyros Stakes and Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, and was second in the Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh.

Interestingly, Broome was one of the least expensive sales of an offspring of Sweepstake. Offered at the Goffs Orby Sale, Brosnan retained the colt at €120,000, and a few months later he sold him at the Tattersalls December Sale to MV Magnier for 150,000gns. What a value purchase he has proven to be. He is one of five Group/Grade 1 winners for Australia, along with Order Of Australia (winner of €2 million), Mare Australis, Ocean Road and Galileo Chrome.

Broome is from Australia’s first crop, and the Coolmore stallion certainly lived up to his breeding, being a son of multiple champion Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) and the brilliant racemare Ouija Board (Cape Cross), when he did the Group 1 Derby double at Epsom and the Curragh, later adding the Group 1 Juddmonte International. What value he looks to be at €25,000.

Ross Doyle

Sweepstake won the Listed National Stakes at two when trained by Richard Hannon senior, and the following year she won a stakes race in the USA. Larry Stratton bought her as a foal for 22,000gns, and Michael Downey turned a profit when selling her for €65,000 at the Goffs Million, signed for by Ross Doyle.

Twenty-four years young, Acclamation has been a Rathbarry stalwart since his retirement there in 2004. A go-to sire for winners, he, like Invincible Spirit, has a great reputation as a sire of sires – Dark Angel, Equiano, Harbour Watch and Mehmas all being Group 1 sire sons. As a broodmare sire, Acclamation is also responsible for Eqtidaar (a son of Invincible Spirit), the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup hero, and a host of Group 2 winners.