☀️ It's #MareMonday and today we highlight the most exciting new recruit to the broodmare band for 2026.
#Zarigana, a Gr.1 winning daughter of #Siyouni and granddaughter of #Zarkava (📸 on her summer holiday last year), will visit Justify this season. 🟢🔴
🟢🔴 The Aga Khan Studs are fielding a team of 6⃣ at #RoyalAscot this week:
#Asmarani, Gr.2 Queen’s Vase 📸
#Candelari, Gr.1 Gold Cup 📸
#Rayevka, Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup
#Reyenzi, Gr.3 Hampton Court Stakes
#Zahrann, Gr.2 King Edward VII Stakes
#Zarigana, Gr.1 Coronation Stakes 📸
☀️ It's #FoalFriday! ☀️
Here is #Zarkala - a daughter of Frankel and #Zarkava - with her 2025 colt by Justify.
She has been covered by #Siyouni this year, so the resulting foal will be very closely related to Gr.1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine #Zarigana.
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The latest bunch of classics reviewed, the first two classics in the USA, the UK and France...
#HorseRacing #Longchamp #ChurchillDowns #Newmarket #GoodCheer #Sovereignty #DesertFlower #Zarigana #HenriMatisse #RulingCourt #Classics
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What a filly this could be time will tell but when the 2nd dam won the French 1,000 Guineas, Oaks & Arc at 3 & was 7-7 & this filly here is 3-4 with one 2nd place, just how far away from each other will they prove to be when all is said and done...
#France #Horses #Zarigana
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Maxime Guyon will ride #Mandanaba for Princess Zahra Aga Khan in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, while @agakhanstuds.com retained rider Mickael Barzalona will be aboard #Zarigana.
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👀 #Siyouni sired 2 Stakes winners plus a Stakes runner-up yesterday @paris_longchamp in #Zarigana, Mont De Soleil and Nitoi.
The leading French sire will cover another exceptional batch of Aga Khan mares this season – including #Ashiyma (📸), a Listed winner in 2024 and our #MareMonday star today.
🏆 #Zarigana boosts her Classic credentials with victory in the Gr.3 Prix de la Grotte! 🟢🔴
This #Siyouni filly – already a Group winner and nearly a Gr.1 winner at 2 – is out of Stakes winner #Zarkamiya, a daughter of #Zarkava who is due a full sibling to Zarigana this month.
🎂 Happy 3rd birthday #Zarigana! 🎂
A daughter of #Siyouni and granddaughter of #Zarkava, she was a Gr.3 winner and Gr.1 runner-up at two and is a Classic hope for 2025. 🟢🔴
We are sad to announce that #Zarkasha has passed away at the age of 26.
Zarkasha will long be remembered in the studbooks as dam of the brilliant #Zarkava and granddam of leading sire #Zarak. She's also great granddam of 2025 Classic hope #Zarigana.
She will be greatly missed by all the team.
Vertical Blue
Zarigana
European 2yo Classification makes #VerticalBlue the Champion 2yo on 114, 1lb ahead of stablemate #Zarigana
Others:
112 Maranoa Charlie
110 Daylight, Misunderstood
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