ONE of the revelations of the 2020 racing season was the remarkable success of the young sire Adaay, who stands at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire with Showcasing and three other stallions.
Still offered with a very attractive covering fee of only £5,000, Adaay was the leading British first-crop sire in Europe last year, with 24 individual winners of 35 races and earnings of over €450,000, a strike rate of 38%.
Adaay got away to a flying start, with his very first runner, Doctor Strange, winning in Italy before running third in the Group 3 Premio Primi Passi at Milan.
His son Twaasol scored in the Woodcote Stakes at the Epsom Derby meeting, while Shark Two One took the valuable Super Auction Stakes at the Curragh.
Other blacktype performers by Adaay include Furlong Factor, second in the listed Marygate Stakes at York, and Tea Dance, whose listed places in France included the Prix de la Vallee d’Auge at Deauville. His dual winner Sir Maxi changed hands for 155,000gns at the breeze-up sales, while his yearlings have sold for prices up to £210,000.
Adaay himself had been a 240,000gns purchase by Shadwell at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale at Newmarket. Racing as a two-year-old, Adaay won the first two of his four starts that season, defeating Kodi Bear at Newbury before running third to Limato in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes there.
However, he took his revenge on Limato at Haydock Park the next year, when he won the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes over six furlongs.
There were three wins for Adaay that season, as he also scored in the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes over seven furlongs at Newbury, defeating Coulsty and Breton Rock, and the Listed Carnarvon Stakes, also at Newbury, from Group 1 star Jungle Cat.
Remaining in training as a four-year-old, Adaay was second to Breton Rock in the Group 3 Criterion Stakes at Newmarket and was also in the money in both the Group 2 Park Stakes at Doncaster and the Gr.2 Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh.
He then started his new career as a stallion at Whitsbury Manor in 2017.
Adaay takes very much after his sire Kodiac, a son of Danehill, who has also been a prolific sire of winners with more than 720 of them, and earnings of over £30 million. Kodiac’s 63 blacktype winners include Group 1 stars Best Solution, Hello Youmzain and Fairyland.
Adaay is a half-brother to five winners, while his dam Lady Lucia is half-sister to seven winners, and is from the family of Group 1 star Runyon.
ADAAY (IRE), Bay 2012. Won five races, £236,934, from 6 furlongs to 7 furlongs, at 2 and 3 years including, 888sport Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock Park, Gr.2, Betfred Hungerford Stakes, Newbury, Gr.2, Toronado Carnarvon Stakes, Newbury, L, also placed second in John Sunley Memorial Criterion Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, and third in Saint Gobain Weber Park Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, Merriebelle Stable Pavilion Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Compton Estates Rose Bowl Stakes, Newbury, L.
Retired to Stud in 2017, and sire of the winners of 36 races, and £445,466, including Furlong Factor (GB), Doctor Strange (GB), Tea Dance (GB)
Stands at: Whitsbury Manor Stud, Nr Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England.
Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper.
Telephone: +44 (0) 1725 518254.
Email: whitsburymanorstud@btopenworld.com
Web: www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk
Fee: £5,000