Thursday, 14 May proved extremely fruitful for the Darley stallions, with Pinatubo, Dubawi and Night Of Thunder each recording new Black Type winners.
Dickensian (Pinatubo) ensured his seasonal debut was a winning one, flying home to land the five-furlong Listed Westow Stakes.
Kevin Ryan’s charge raced towards the rear early on, but once asked for his effort at the furlong marker, quickened impressively to move to the front and win by half a length. A very consistent performer, Dickensian was second in last year’s Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot and concluded his juvenile campaign with a third place in the G2 Flying Childers.
Bred by the late Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, Dickensian is a son of G3 winner Yourtimeisnow and is from the family of G1 winner Stroll.
Champion father and son Dubawi and Night Of Thunder also added new Listed winners to their records, with their daughters Anakova and Bella Sinfonia enjoying success in France and Germany respectively.
Dubawi’s four-year-old daughter Anakova lined up for the Listed Prix Esoterique at Longchamp and raced prominently throughout the one-mile contest. The Andre Fabre-trained filly finished strongly to take the lead close to home and prevail by three quarters of a length.
She is a homebred for Wertheimer et Frere and is out of the G3 winner and G1 Prix de Diane third Terrakova, now dam of two Stakes winners and a further Stakes performer by Dubawi.
Meanwhile at Dortmund in Germany, Night Of Thunder filly Bella Sinfonia landed her first Black Type contest with a one-length victory in the nine-furlong Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Dortmund.
Bred in Germany, Bella Sinfonia is the first foal to race out of G2 winner and multiple G1 placegetter Bella Sonata.
