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Tashreefat Stud Focus Part 1
Tashreefat (GB)
It has been quite a year for HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s broodmare Tashreefat. Her standard bearer has of course been Muraaqib, but Barnamaj, Ajaayib and Maraasem have all made the winners enclosure, making her an influencer of note for future generations. Bred Shadwell France SNC, though foaled in England, Tashreefat is by Sheikh Hamdan’s great foundation stallion, Bengali D’Albret, who is firmly establishing himself as a leading broodmare sire, out of Seglaoui (Tidjani). Bred by Martial Boisseuil, Seglaoui raced in the UK in the famous blue and white silks, winning three times from six to seven furlongs as a four-year-
old when trained by Gill Duffield. Tashreefat was her first foal and her best to date, though she does have a three-year-old half-brother by No Risk Al Maury, Almaajid, currently in training with Damien de Watrigant. Also trained in the UK by Duffield, Tashreefat showed a lot of speed, winning three times from five furlongs to seven furlongs. Ridden in many of her races by Phil Collington, he recalls her debut saying: “Tashreefat and No Risk Al Maury both ran in the same maiden at Hereford, so obviously I chose No Risk, and of course he won, but she was second.”
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