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in front of Roaring Lion, Expert Eye, James Garfield and Gustav Klimt.
Then came his date with destiny in the Derby when he provided Sheikh Mohammed with his first winner of the race in the blue
of Godolphin. Masar was a commanding winner of the Blue Riband event, once again defeating Roaring Lion, with the dual Group 1 winner Saxon Warrior and future dual Group 1 winner Kew Gardens amongst the vanquished.
An injury prevented Masar from racing again as a three-year-old but he came back into training at four, running twice without showing his old sparkle and was retired.
MasarwasbredtowinatEpsom–heisa son of Derby winner New Approach, himself a son of Derby winner Galileo who is a half- brother to Derby winner Sea The Stars, who is by Masar’s broodmare sire Cape Cross. He is the sire of Derby winner Golden Horn, the Oaks winner Ouija Board and broodmare sire of another Derby winner in Australia.
Masar is inbred 3x4 to the great Urban Sea, dam of Group/Grade 1 winners Galileo, Sea The Stars, My Typhoon and Black
Sam Bellamy and the Oaks-placed All Too Beautiful and Melikah (third dam of Massar), as well as the Group 3 winner Urban Ocean, the Group 1 placed, Listed winner Born To Sea and the Group-placed Cherry Hinton.
He is the first runner and winner out of the Group 2 UAE Derby and Group 3 UAE Oaks winner Khawlah by Cape Cross. She is a half- sister to Vancouverite (Dansili), winner of the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano and second in the Group 1 Jebel Hatta.
They are two of the five winners produced by Villarrica, a winner over 11 and 12 furlongs by Selkirk and out of Melikah, who is by the Derby, the King George and the Arc winner Lammtarra.
Melikah won the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes and was placed in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks and is the dam of nine winners from 11 runners, including the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner and the Group 1 Arc third Masterstroke (Monsun), the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and
Group 3 Meld Stakes winner Moonlight Magic, who was also placed in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes, Royal Line, who was a Group 3 winner by Dubawi, and the Listed winner Hidden Gold, a daughter of Shamardal.
Melikah’s half-sisters have also produced top-class racehorses with All Too Beautiful by Sadler’s Wells producing the Listed Cheshire Oaks winner and Group 1 Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks-placed Wonder Of
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as his broodmare sire, as did the ill-fated Society Rock who made such an impact in his short stallion career
Wonders by Kingmambo. She is the dam of the three-year-old So Wonderful, a Group 1-placed War Front filly.
All Too Beautiful also produced the Group 3-placed Sparrow by Oasis Dream, who in turn is the dam of last year’s Group 3 Chester Vase winner Sir Dragonet, a son of Camelot who was fourth in the St Leger.
Cherry Hinton, who achieved least on
the track of Urban Sea’s offspring, has done rather better as a broodmare. The daughter of Green Desert is the dam of Group 1 Irish Oaks and Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Bracelet and the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes winner Wading, both by Montjeu.
Wading’s four-year-old Dansili daughter Just Wonderful emulated her dam by winning the Rockfel and was twice placed in Group 1 races last year.
Cherry Hinton is also the dam of the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks winner Athena (Camelot), who was also placed in two more Group 1 races, and her full-sister Goddess, a Group 3 winner last year.
With the proliferation of Urban Sea’s genes in Masar’s DNA, something different is called for when looking at mares.
Given that strong Urban Sea influence, mares by Pivotal could be a good match for Masar given that Galileo has sired four Group 1 winners out of Pivotal mares, Sea The Stars also has a Group 1 winner by Pivotal, and Cracksman, a grandson of Galileo, is out of a daughter of Pivotal.
Danehill and Danehill Dancer have worked quite successfully with New Approach with 2020 Classic contender Military March out
of a Danehill mare as is the Group 2 and multiple Listed winner Nearly Caught, who was also placed in a Group 1.
Jalmoud, a Listed winner who was third
in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris last year is out of Dancing Rain, the Group 1 Preis der Diana winner by Danehill Dancer.
New Approach had his first Group 1 as a broodmare sire in 2020 with the top-class French juvenile Earthlight, successful in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes. He is by Shamardal whose daughters, and those of his son Lope De Vega, should be considered for Masar.
Phoenix Of Spain
Lope De Vega – Lucky Clio (Key Of Luck)
Irish National Stud
€15,000
A Classic-winning miler from the hottest sire line right now, Phoenix Of Spain has the potential to be a pivotal stallion for the Irish National Stud.
The grey is one of nine individual Group/ Grade 1 winners sired by the brilliant Prix du Jockey-Club and Poule d’Essais des Poulains winner Lope De Vega.
Phoenix Of Spain broke his maiden on just his second start and was immediately upped in grade for the Group 2 Acomb Stakes where he produced a class performance for a comfortable win.
Then he tackled Too Darn Hot in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster and he proved best of the rest beating the
Group 2 Railway Stakes winner Van Beethoven in the process. He displayed class and courage in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy when battling hard with Magna Grecia and went down by just a head to the future 2,000 Guineas winner.
Phoenix Of Spain skipped that first Classic to wait for the Irish 2,000 Guineas and trainer Andrew Balding’s decision proved tobeashrewdone–thesonofLopeDe Vega a decisive 3l winner from the European champion two-year-old Too Darn Hot, with Magna Grecia further down the field.
Phoenix Of Spain ran four more times over a mile with a fifth place, less than 3l behind Circus Maximus in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin his best effort – all four horses ahead of him were Group 1 winners.
He is one of seven winners from seven runners so far for Lucky Clio, a daughter of Key Of Luck who failed to win but was placed on three occasions as a three-year-old.
Four of her winners are black-type performers with two rated 107 – the Azamour gelding Central Square, a three-time winner who was third in the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes, and Lucky Beggar (Verglas), the winner of seven races and placed 29 times,