👏 A #FoalFriday shout-out to the brilliant #Daryakana. 👏
✅ Gr.1 Hong Kong Vase winner
✅ Dam of 6⃣ Stakes winners
✅ Dam of 2⃣ Gr.1 winners, including 2025 Arc hero #Daryz
📹 with her final foal, a 2025 filly by #Erevann. She will now enjoy a well-earned retirement!
🌟 Written in the Stars… 🌟
#SeaTheStars and #Daryakana both won races over Arc weekend in 2009.
Now their 3yo son #Daryz is the 2025 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero! 💚❤️
🥇 #Daryz is now unbeaten in two starts, as he lands the C2 Prix de Croissy at Paris Longchamp.
This 3yo colt is bred in the purple, being by #SeaTheStars out of Gr.1 winner/producer #Daryakana.
His dam produced an #Erevann filly this spring.🟢🔴
Our #MareMonday today features #Darkaniya, a Gr.2 and Listed winner on the track who gave birth earlier this year to her first foal, a filly by Justify, and is now in foal to #Siyouni.
#Darkaniya is one of five Stakes winners out of the Gr.1 winning mare #Daryakana.
👀 #Daryakana now has a 💯% winners to runners ratio, as her daughter #Darylakha won yesterday! 🟢🔴
It's #MareMonday and today we feature #Daryakana, dam of yesterday's Prix Juigné winner #Daryz.
A Gr.1 winner herself, she's now dam of 6 winners from 7 runners, 5 of them at Stakes level including Gr.1 hero #Dariyan.
📸 left: with her 2025 #Erevann filly
📸 right: #Daryz (#SeaTheStars) as a foal
“𝘈 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵-𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘶𝘣𝘢𝘸𝘪 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘈 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺!” - Pierre Gasnier, manager of the Aga Khan Studs in France.
This #Erevann foal is out of Gr.1 heroine #Daryakana, making her a half-sister to 5⃣ Stakes winners including #Dariyan.