YAMAMAH this month ran a highly creditable third in the Listed UAE 1000 Guineas, and it should not be long before this stakes-placed maiden joins the tally of 10 individual winners from the first crop by the Derby winner Masar (New Approach).
There is also much to anticipate among some of those winners, with connections of the sire keen to highlight the possibilities for the unbeaten Epsom Derby entry Golden West, the André Fabre-trainee Will Scarlet, and dual sprint winner Gentleman Beauty.
There is also much to look forward to in their slipstream, with his second-crop yearlings making up to 100,000gns, and last year Masar got 90 mares in foal.
Current figures identify Frankel (34 Group 1 winners among 137 stakes winners), Teofilo (24 among 113) and New Approach (nine among 62) as among the best stallion sons of the late great Galileo (Sadler’s Wells).
New Approach added to his classic tally when Mac Swiney won the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas, while his first-crop daughter Talent won the Group 1 Oaks, the same season that juvenile champion Dawn Approach secured a Group 1 2000 Guineas victory at Newmarket. Then, six years ago, Masar won the Group 1 Derby.
Dawn Approach proved that a son of New Approach can become a classic sire, with Madhmoon, Mary Tudor, Dawn Patrol and Musis Amica all placing in one before Poetic Flare landed the Group 1 2000 Guineas. Dawn Approach is also responsible for the Australian Group 1 winner Paulele.
All of this augurs well for Masar, especially given the powerful family he represents. He is inbred 3x4 to the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine and phenomenal broodmare Urban Sea (Miswaki), and along with Galileo and Sea The Stars (Cape Cross), he is the third Derby winner in the immediate family.
Masar’s Derby victory was memorable, but it would be wrong to think of him just in terms of that race. He ran away with the Group 3 Craven Stakes over a mile before finishing third to Saxon Warrior in the Group 1 2000 Guineas, and that was after a notable juvenile season. Masar beat Invincible Army on their debut over six furlongs at Goodwood, well clear of the rest.
Masar was third to September in the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, beat future classic-winning miler Romanised by two lengths to win the Group 3 Solario Stakes, and was third to Happily in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, his only run on soft ground.
He is out of the Group 2 UAE Derby and Group 3 UAE Oaks heroine Khawlah (Cape Cross), and his third dam is the dual Oaks-placed stakes winner and prolific blacktype producer Melikah (Lammtarra). She is a daughter of Urban Sea, which makes her a half-sister to Galileo and Sea The Stars. This year will surely see the emergence of the first of many pattern and stakes winners by Masar.
Race record
MASAR (IRE), Chesnut horse, 2015. Jt 2nd top rated 3yr old colt in Europe in 2018. Won 4 races, value £1,028,798, at 2 and 3, from 6 furlongs to 1 mile 4 furlongs, Derby Stakes, Epsom, Gr.1, Craven Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Solario Stakes, Sandown, Gr.3, also placed third in 2000 Guineas, Newmarket, Gr.1, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère, Chantilly, Gr.1 and Chesham Stakes, Ascot, L.
At stud
Retired to stud in 2020, and sire of 10 winners, of 12 races, and £241,394, including Yamamah (IRE), Gentleman Beauty (Fr), Golden West (GB), Will Scarlet (GB), Free Speech (Ire), Path To Dubai (GB), L’Etoile De France (Fr), Prince Rasam (GB), Bajan Blue (GB), Princess In Rome (GB), and Placeholder (Ire).
Information
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