DUBAWI was born four years after Galileo, and at Chantilly on Sunday he recorded two notable landmarks when Wuheida raced to victory over Galileo’s daughter Promise To Be True in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.
It was her sire’s 25th Group or Grade 1 winner and his first juvenile to be one.
This week Dubawi was responsible on Tuesday for the most expensive yearling in the world in 2016 when the colt out of Group 2 Coronation Stakes winner Fallen For You sold for 2,600,000gns.
John Ferguson won the day for him and on Wednesday he gave 2,100,000gns for another colt by the classic winning son of Dubai Millennium.
Wuheida was home-bred by Darley and is the second foal and winner for her dam Hibaayeb, a daughter of Singspiel. The third offspring is a filly foal this year, also by Dubawi.
The mare’s first foal is the now three-year-old Street Cry filly Lacey’s Lane, a maiden winner at Le Touquet this year.
Hibaayeb was trained by Clive Brittain and that goes some way to explaining why she broke her maiden in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile at Ascot. She then transferred to Saeed bin Suroor and added three more group or graded successes to her curriculum vitae, including the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes and the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes. She also ran third in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary.
She is the best of four winners out of the winning Lion Cavern mare Lady Zonda.
Wuheida and her dam are easily the outstanding runners in the immediate generations of the family. Sunday’s Group 1 winner has the Habitat mare Oh So Hot as her fourth dam and she was a full-sister to the dual Nassau Stakes winner Roussalka and a half-sister to the Fillies’ Triple Crown winner Oh So Sharp.