Asmar easily wins his first race at Meydan

Asmar, a three-year-old son of Cape Cross, broke his maiden in style on Saturday March 8 when running out the very easy winner of the Listed Al Bastakiya over 1900m on Meydan's Tapeta track. Held up early in fourth in a steadily run race, his jockey Richard Hughes went to the lead at the beginning of the back straight and never saw another rival, taking the contest with consummate ease by six lengths. 

Bred by Eric Puerari and Oceanic Bloodstock, Asmar is a son of the Mtoto mare Zaneton and a half-brother to the multiple G1-winning filly Zagora, successful in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf in 2012.

Standing this season at a fee of €30,000, Cape Cross is now the sire of 86 individual Stakes winners including two of the best horses of modern times in Ouija Board and Sea The Stars. Asmar himself comes from Cape Cross' first post Sea The Stars book of mares, a crop which also includes top-class French juvenile filly Lesstalk In Paris, who has recently been entered in the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket.