31 winners for Dubawi

Europe’s leading first-season sire by number of winners also opens his southern hemisphere account with victory for Cellarmaster in New Zealand

First-season sire Dubawi increased his winners’ tally to 31 on 11 November when Comradeship obliged over a mile at Southwell.

Quickly away, the John Gosden-trained colt was never far from the pace and taking the lead with a furlong left to run, landed the one-mile contest by a head.

Bred by Middle Park Stud and now owned by HRH Princess Haya, Comradeship is out of the unraced Zafonic mare Friendlier who is a half-sister to five-time G1 winner User Friendly.

A day later, Dubawi notched his first southern hemisphere winner when Cellarmaster scored by one and a half lengths at Otaki, New Zealand.

Making his second start, off the back of a recent barrier trial win, the Kevin Gray-trained colt raced away with the 800m event to score with ease under jockey Kane Smith.

Out of the three-time winning Sound Reason mare Oenology, Cellarmaster was bred by Judge Clapham who retained the colt to race after withdrawing him from the 2009 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale.

A half-brother to the G1 VRC Derby-placed Our Bahare, Cellarmaster's dam is a half-sister to the dual G1 winner Second Coming. They are from the family of G1 winners In The Wings and Champion older mare Zomaradah, who in turn is the dam of Dubawi.