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Pedigree

“Some Classic results stand out, with the 1984 Prix du Jockey-Club often cited thanks to Darshaan leading home Sadler's Wells and Rainbow Quest in a trifecta of future superstar sires. As regards fillies, the 1990 Prix de Diane takes some beating, with Rafha coming home ahead of Moon Cactus and Colour Chart. All three ended up breeding at least one Group/Grade 1 winner, but ultimately the significance of the result goes way beyond merely first-generation success.

Ultimately, though, Rafha has proved the most influential of these eminent matrons. Her legacy continues to expand, 33 years after her Prix de Diane triumph, and she is now even more revered than she was on that glorious summer's afternoon when she galloped to Classic glory at Chantilly.

In one sense, Rafha's sons merit even greater respect than do Urban Sea's stars. Galileo and Sea The Stars were Derby winners who started out covering high-class mares from the outset but Invincible Spirit and Kodiac did not have that luxury, having instead had to 'make their own luck' as stallions, and their influence will not end when they cease to have runners because they have already started to establish their own sire lines. The sire-sons of each look set to ensure that this story will run and run, not to mention that each has plenty of good racehorses still to come” John Berry

Rafha, from classic heroin
to founder of a prominent sire dynasty

A blinding first book of mares

Sotteville, dam of Gr.1 Prix de Diane runner-up Survie
Vadyska, dam of Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat winner Puchkine
Latita, dam of Gr.1 Chevely Park Stakes runner-up Daylight
Kendalee, dam of Gr.1 Deutsches Derby winner Sisfahan
Oscula, 3^rdin the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac
Nuwara Eliya, 3^rdin the Gr.1 Gran Premio Estrellas Juvenile Fillies
Cloghran, dam of Gr.1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud winner Robin Of Navan

Invincible Spirit & Kodiac in 2024

As years pass by and they inch up closer to retirement, Rafha’s two sensational sons kept stealing the headlines in 2024.

Kodiac: Broodmare sire of Champion Miler and Cartier Older Horse Charyn

Invincible Spirit hit twice on Guineas weekend, as the broodmare sire of 2000 Guineas winner Notable Speech (Dubawi) and as the females’ division heroin Elmalka’s (Kingman) grandsire.

Mishriff’s pedigree is conspicuously free of Sadler’s Wells or his sons, and Danzig appears only in Mishriff’s fifth generation through Green Desert.

This bodes well for him, especially as Rafha’s stakes-winning Danehill daughter Massarra has already shown an affinity for the line by producing five stakes winners by Galileo, including Group 2 winner and Classic-placed Gustav Klimt .

Moreover, Dubawi has produced numerous Group 1 winners with Sadler’s Wells in the pedigree, notably Too Darn Hot, who is out of a mare by Singspiel. Night of Thunder is from a mare by Galileo, while classic winners Coroebus (2000 Guineas), Modern Games (Poule d’Essai des Poulains), Ezeliya (Epsom Oaks 2024) are from mares by sons of Galileo.

This makes him a perfect option for mares by these lines, particularly those that have Galileo and/or Danehill, both so ubiquitous in European pedigrees.

Proven affinity
for the Sadler’s Wells and Danzig lines

Calling the shots

Classic winner in near record time

“He put the race to bed in two strides” Ioritz Mendizabal

With a final time of 02:04.10 to complete the 2100m of the French Derby, Mishriff became one of the fastest winners of the French stallion-making classic. Only three horses have shaded 01:35 to win the Prix du Jockey Club, two of which later became Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winners, while Mishriff carved his own path to glory during an outstanding international campaign.

Next in line

“If history repeats itself, Mishriff , who entered stud in 2024 at Sumbe, will get a Classic winner in his first crop of 100+ foals expected in 2025. Consider this remarkable streak of his sire line: Mishriff was a member of his sire Make Believe’s first crop and won the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club; Make Believe was from the first crop of the exported Makfi and won the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains; Makfi, who was in Dubawi ’s first crop, won the Gr.1 2000 Guineas; and Dubawi, from the first and only crop of the Seeking the Gold champion miler Dubai Millenium, won the Gr.1 Irish 2000 Guineas.”
Sid Fernando

FOLLOW MICHAEL KIWANUKA

SUMBE.FR

A race record mirroring pedigree influences

Taking the Saudi Cup (9f dirt) and the Sheema Classic (12f turf) on a 4 weeks turnaround, Mishriff mirrored the outstanding versatility embedded in his pedigree, a rare ability passed on by influential dual-purpose sires.

Looking at Mishriff’s athletic frame, there is a lot about him to remind us of his maternal great-grandsire Elusive Quality, a highly adaptable and very fast member of the Mr Prospector line who set records on turf and dirt and made quite an impact in France through his successful sire son Elusive City, who built himself a deserved reputation for moving his mares up.

Mishriff's damsire Raven’s Pass ellicited an IFHA rating of 129 off consecutive wins in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, where he became the second Euro shipper to defeat the Americans in the nation’s dirt finale.

Rewinding further back, Raven’s Pass broodmare sire Lord At War was a champion in his native Argentina and later became a multiple Grade 1 winner on the dirt in the US before going on to a successful stud career in Kentucky. He is notably the broodmare sire of Pioneerof the Nile, whose son American Pharoah ended a 36-years American Triple Crown drought, who is establishing himself as a highly respected dual-purpose stallion.

“I think there are very few horses that can switch surfaces like that.”
John Gosden

RACE RECORD

At five

• 2nd Gr.1 Eclipse Stake
• 2nd Gr.1 International Stakes
• 3rd Gr.1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes

At four

• 1st Gr.1 Dubai Sheema Classic
• 1st Gr.1 International Stakes
• 1st Gr.1 Saudi Cup
• 2nd Gr.1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes
• 3rd Gr.1 Eclipse Stakes

At two

• 1st British Racing Maiden Stakes

At three

• 1st Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club
• 1st Gr.2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano
• 1st LR Newmarket Stakes