Breeze Up purchase Alizoom a comfortable winner of his Maiden at Windsor last week.

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Vin Chaud, bought by Mark in Deauville, romped to a five length victory over 1900 metres at Cholet on the 9th April. By Teofilo, he will hopefully be an exciting improver over the summer. We are looking forward to returning to Deauville!

Majeed, bought by Mark as a yearling in Deauville, followed up Prince Suhail’s Abu Dhabi success by making a perfect return to racing on Dubai World Cup day, comfortably dispatching his rivals in a ten furlong handicap on the all weather at Chelmsford. He will hopefully be a Royal Ascot possibility for 2015.

Mark Crossman and Khalifa Dasmal, in whose colours Dream Ahead won five Group 1 races, support the stallion once again this year when going to 240,000gns for this colt from Brightwalton Stud. Angus Gold is the underbidder.

He is the sixth yearling purchased so far this year by Crossman on behalf of Dasmal.

“He will be trained by David Simcock,” said Crossman. He looked the pick of the Dream Aheads, we looked at them all. I think he’ll be a two-year-old, he’s as much like his sire as any I’ve seen – apart from the colour!”

“I’ve been buying for Khalifa since 1991, when we met through a mutual friend in the Bombay Brasserie in London. We’ve enjoyed a lot of success, including Prohibit and Dream Ahead.”

He is the first foal out of his dam, a winning half-sister to Celebration Mile winner Zacinto. His third dam is the 1997 Oaks heroine Reams Of Verse.

Led by a filly out of Flanders that realised 400,000gns to Lordship Stud last week, the first progeny of Dream Ahead have sold consistently well this year – his sale stats currently read 54 yearlings sold for an average of 87,239gns.

Brightwalton Stud paid 125,000gns for Complexion through Anthony Stroud in 2012 so the operation is already ahead with the mare thanks to the sale of this colt.

“He was a lovely horse and correct all the way through,” said stud owner Jeffrey Hobby. “There’s no better way to start the mare. She has a Lawman colt this year – he’s a real belter and will be offered next year – and is in foal to Mastercraftsman.

“It’s nice for the stud, as we’re still relatively new – we started in 2007/08. We mainly breed – we have ten mares – but have the odd pinhook.”

2014 has been a solid season with 12% winners to runners. The star emerging has been Speed Hawk who will continue his upwardly mobile campaign as a turning four year old in Dubai. We hope also to see Dragoon Guard back on track in early 2015.

Others now off to Dubai for the Dasmal team include Prince Suhail and Hard Run.

The yearling buying season is almost at an end. I have been buying mainly Dream Ahead stock for Mr Dasmal although we also got a very nice colt by Fast Company who has already been named Great Company and will go into training with Harry Dunlop representing his first horse for the Dasmal team. Another “freshman” trainer for Dasmal racing is Ralph Beckett who will get a Dream Ahead yearling I bought at Goffs. Other purchases include:-

A colt by Dream Ahead out of Tarawa to be trained by Francois Rohaut in Pau
A filly by Dream Ahead out of Big Monologue to be trained by Henri Francois Devin in Chantilly
A colt by Fast Company out of Sunlit Silence to be trained by Harry Dunlop in Lambourne
A colt by Dream Ahead out of Gladstone Street to be trained by Ralph Beckett in Kimpton
A filly by Iffraaj out of Eyrecourt to be trained by David Simcock in Newmarket
A colt by Dream Ahead out of Silent Secret to be trained by Marco Botti in Newmarket.
A colt by Dream Ahead out of Lamentation to be trained by David Simcock in Newmarket
A colt by Dream Ahead out of Complexion to be trained by David Simcock in Newmarket
In America we acquired a colt by Scat Daddy out of Volver and a sister to Speed Hawk by Street Boss, both to be trained by Robert Cowell.

There is also two homebred colts by Dream Ahead out of Poly Blue and High Spice who have yet to be assigned a trainer.

A very exciting war chest!

Stable favourite Noble Citizen defied a 8lb hike in the weights to maintain Khalifa Dasmal’s 100% strike rate in the UK this year. He has now earned an all weather Official Rating of 96. This represents a further hike of 8lbs.

To extract from the European Business News:

Narrowly defeated by a short head over course and distance 14 days ago, Dragoon Guard (Jeremy) made a winning return, running on readily to score by a length and three quarters at the third attempt.

He is the third foal out of the placed Elouges (Dalakhani), who is a half-sister to the Gr.2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner and sire Mons
(Deploy), who was also placed in the Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy and the Gr.1 Jockey Club Stakes. Her other siblings include the Gr.1 Irish Oaks third Inforapenny (Deploy), the Listed Godolphin Stakes-placed Funday(Daylami) and the talented hurdler Pigeon Island (Daylami). The second dam, Morina (Lyphard), was a winner at three in France and is also the second dam of the US Listed winner and Gr.2-placed Pronto Pronto (Snitzel) and the French Listed-placed Funmaker (Xaar). The third dam, Arewehavingfunyet (Sham) won the Gr.1 Oak Leaf Stakes, Gr.2 Del Mar Debutante Stakes and the Gr.3 Landaluce Stakes amd was placed in the Gr.1 Del Mar Futurity, Gr.1 Mehmet Stakes and the Gr.1 San Felipe Handicap. She produced eleven winners from 13 runners, including the Listed Kensington Handicap winner and sire Have Fun (Topsider) and the Gr.2 Fort Stakes-placed Holiday Camp (Chester House).

An exciting three year old prospect.

Book 3 presented the opportunity for Mark to buy a well bred, sweet filly by Showcasing, an exciting new Stallion.

A May foal, she is a daughter of the winning Dancing Feather who has already produced the Ascot Listed winning Wagtail and Ascot Listed placed Feathers Flying among her eight winning progeny so far. Dancing Feather herself is out of multiple Group winner English Oak who won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot (G2). She in turn is the dam Spring Oak (G3) (dam of Castlereagh (L)), Fragrant Hill (L) (dam of Fragrant Mix (G1), Alpine Rose (G1), Fascinating Mix (L), Farfala (L) (dam of Under The Rainbow (L)) and Fralonga (G2 placed).

What is particularly exciting is that this yearling has five winning sisters (two of who are Black Type) who themselves can improve this already impressive pedigree.

The yearling cost just 23,000 guineas and special thanks must go to the pedigree expert James Underwood for pointing us in the right direction.

On the 5th of September, Mabait followed up his recent victory with another win at Newmarket in the competitive Chris Blackwell Memorial Handicap but more importantly the Mark Crossman yearling purchase (30,000g) Maid A Million improved again to come third in the Listed October Stakes at Ascot, thereby gaining the all important black type which she will take to Ballylinch Stud where she will visit Dream Ahead.