Dubawi (foaled 7 February 2002) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire.

Background

Dubawi is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by Sheikh Mohammed's

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. He was one of the only crop of foals sired by

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, an outstanding racehorse. His dam, Zomaradah was a top class racemare who won the

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, E. P. Taylor Stakes,

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and the Royal Whip Stakes. As a descendant of the broodmare Sunbittern, Zomaradah, who also produced the

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winner Emirates Queen, was closely related to In the Wings, High-Rise and

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. The colt raced in the blue colours of Godolphin and was trained by

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. He was ridden in all but one of his races by

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Racing career

Dubawi was undefeated as a two-year-old in 2004. He won a maiden race at

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in June, the Group Three Superlative Stakes at Newmarket in July and the Group One National Stakes at the

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in September. In the following year he started favourite for the

2000 Guineas The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) and scheduled to take place each year ...

at Newmarket but finished fifth behind

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. He defeated

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in the Irish 2000 Guineas and then moved up in distance to finish third to Motivator in The Derby. He returned to one mile to win the Prix Jacques Le Marois at

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in August and ended his career by finishing second to Starcraft in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot a month later.

Stud record

Dubawi stands as a breeding stallion at his owner's Dalham Hall Stud at a fee of £350,000 for the 2023 season.

Notable stock

''c = colt, f = filly, g = gelding''

National Hunt

Dubawi sired Dodging Bullets, a top class 2 mile chaser who won the Grade I Tingle Creek Chase, Grade I

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and the Grade I

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at the

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, winning all three Grade Ones in the 2014–2015 Great Britain National Hunt Season. Dodging Bullets was bred by acclaimed flat jockey

, having originally been bred as an Epsom Derby prospect. Dubawi's first Grade I success in the National Hunt sphere came when Hisaabaat won the Champion Four Year Old Hurdle at the 2012 Punchestown Festival.

Pedigree

References

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