Sire:
ANABAA
(USA) (late):
Champion older Sprinter
in Europe and recipient of the
Cartier Award
as Europe's Top Sprinter
in 1996. A winner of 8 races (6 consecutive
black-type races) incl. The July Cup,
Gr.1 ,
Prix Maurice de Gheest,
Gr.1 ,
etc.
Rated
130
by Racehorses.
In the period that the late Anabaa stood at
stud before his untimely death in 2009 he has
displayed a unique characteristic as a sire by
producing
top class Group 1 and Group 2 winners across 7
countries
- the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
North America as well as Australia and
across a wide range of distances .
He is the sire of
Champion race mare and World Champion Miler
GOLDIKOVA
(Breeders' Cup Mile,
Gr.1
(3 times) ,
Prix Rothschild,
Gr.1
(4 times) ,
Falmouth Stakes,
Gr.1 ,
Queen Anne Stakes,
Gr.1 ,
etc.),
ANABAA BLUE
(Prix du Jockey Club,
Gr.1 ,
etc), ANABAR (Champion twice in Hong
Kong), ALASKA RIVER (Gr.1
Winner),
ANA MARIE
(Gr.1 Winner), MARTILLO (Gr.1
Winner), PLUMANIA (Gr.1
Winner), ROUVRES (Gr.1
Winner), AMONITA (Gr.1
Winner), PRECISION EX ANABAR (Gr.1
Winner), ANABANDANA (Gr.1
Winner),
YELL
(Gr.1 Winner), VIRAGE OF FORTUNE
(Gr.1 Winner), TERANABA (Gr.1
Winner), ANACHEEVA (Gr.1
Winner), IMANANABAA (Gr.1
Winner), LE DRAKKAR,
HEADTURNER (Gr.1 Winner),
etc.
His stud fee at the time of his death was
Euro 30,000.
Dam :
ASMARA
(USA) : A Listed winner of 2 races and
multiple Listed-placed half-sister to
the Gr.1 and Gr.2 winner
ASTARABAD. Dam of 9 foals to race,
8 winners, incl.:
AZAMOUR
(IRE) Top Rated 3yo in Ireland in 2004
and Champion Older Horse in England &
Ireland in 2005, Rated 130 by
Racehorses, winner of the Irish Champion
Stakes, Gr.1, King George VI & Queen
Elizabeth Stakes, Gr.1, Prince of
Wales’s Stakes, Gr.1, St. James’s
Palace Stakes, Gr.1, second in the
Irish 2000 Guineas, Gr.1, third in the
Champion Stakes, Gr.1, 2000 Guineas,
Gr.1, Breeders’ Cup Turf, Gr.1.
Asmara’s several other winners include the
smart Irish performer at up to a mile and a
quarter, Ahsanabad and the useful Irish
juvenile Arameen.
2nd Dam :
ANAZA
: A winner of 2 races and
Listed-placed. Dam of 10 winners, incl.:
ASTARABAD
(USA) Multiple Group Winner, including
the Prix Ganay, Gr.1