NO horse retiring to stud this year comes close to being as well-known as Baaeed, who embarks on his new career at a fee of £80,000, reflecting an outstanding career that only saw his flawless race record end when he was beaten less than two lengths into fourth behind Bay Bridge in the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes.

With an unbeaten run of nine victories under his belt, each gained at a mile, Baaeed stepped into the ‘unknown’, tackling 10 furlongs for the first time, and established himself as a true champion with success in the Group 1 Juddmonte International.

This was his sixth win at that level, matching the achievement of his sire, Sea The Stars (Cape Cross). The 19 sons and daughters of Sea The Stars who have won at the highest level have now amassed 35 wins in these races.

Baaeed’s success on the track is a reminder again of the prowess of the late Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum when it came to breeding. In 1982 he purchased Height Of Fashion (Bustino), owned and bred by Queen Elizabeth, winner of what is now the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile, but then a Group 3 race.

At three she won the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket. Height Of Fashion was out of Highclere (Queen’s Hussar) who won the Group 1 1000 Guineas and Prix de Diane-French Oaks for her owner-breeder.

Outstanding

Height Of Fashion would go on to become an outstanding producer, her eight winners all earning blacktype, and six of them being stakes winners.

Her influence for the Shadwell group has been enormous, and approaching 40 stakes winners descend from her, almost one for every year since she was acquired by Sheikh Hamdan.

She bred Nayef (Gulch), four times a Group 1 winner, a Group 1 sire and now with a growing reputation as a broodmare sire. She also bred the four-time Group 1 winner and successful sire Nashwan (Blushing Groom). Furthermore, she produced the Group 2 winner Unfuwain (Northern Dancer), and he became a Group 1 sire.

Height Of Fashion’s granddaughters include the 1000 Guineas and Group 1 Coronation Stakes winner Ghanaati (Giant’s Causeway), and she is also third dam of Lahudood (Singspiel), Baaeed’s grandam. She landed the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes at Belmont before capping her career with victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

At stud Lahudood is the dam of five winners, her best being Aghareed, a daughter of Kingmambo (Mr Prospector). She won the same listed race her dam, and her three winners include Baaeed and his 2022 Group 1 winning full-brother Hukum (Sea The Stars).

Baaeed added his York win to other top-level victories in the Lockinge Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Sussex Stakes and the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.

He beat the best around, and his first book of mares is outstanding.

Race record

BAAEED (GB), Bay 2018. Champion 3yr old miler in Europe in 2021. Champion older horse in Europe in 2022. Won ten races, £2,691,961, from 1 mile to 1 mile 2 furlongs, at 3 and 4 years including, Juddmonte International Stakes, York, Gr.1, Lockinge Stakes, Newbury, Gr.1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, ParisLongchamp, Gr.1, Queen Anne Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, Thoroughbred Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, Sir Henry Cecil Stakes, Newmarket, L.

At stud

Retired to Stud in 2023.

Information

Stands at: Nunnery Stud, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 2QE, England.

Contact: Will Wright

Telephone: +44 1842 756963 or +44 7787 422901

Email: nominations@shadwellstud.co.uk

Web: www.shadwellstud.com

Fee: £80,000