☀️ 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. 🟢🔴
🚀 Fantastic result for first crop foal sire #Vadeni yesterday at Tattersalls.
This filly out of Gr.3 winner Zannda – also dam of 2025 Group winner Zahrann – sold to Paca Paca Farm for 200,000gns. From the further family of #Zarkava, she was consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment.
🏆 Stakes success for #Zaydann in the Listed Prix Lyphard at Deauville, his third consecutive victory!
This Dubawi colt is the first offspring of #Siyouni's Stakes winning daughter #Zaykava, herself a daughter of the brilliant #Zarkava. 🟢🔴
🥇 Another win for #Zaydann, this time in the C1 Grand Prix du Mans.
This Dubawi colt is the first foal out of #Siyouni's Stakes winning daughter #Zaykava, who herself is out of #Zarkava - making Zaydann a close relative of star sire #Zarak. 🟢🔴
🥇 #Zayida gets off the mark at Saint-Cloud, breaking her maiden in the Prix Barquette.
This blue-blooded 2yo is a daughter of Frankel out of #Siyouni's Stakes winning daughter #Zaykava - herself out of champion #Zarkava. 🟢🔴
🟢🔴 The 8⃣ Arc winners for the Aga Khan family:
🏆 #Migoli (1948)
🏆 #Nuccio (1952)
🏆 #SaintCrespin (1959)
🏆 #Akiyda (1982)
🏆 #Sinndar (2000)
🏆 #Dalakhani (2003)
🏆 #Zarkava (2008)
🏆 #Daryz (2025)
🏆 All winning connections will receive Halycon Days enamel boxes featuring two equine icons bred & raced by the Aga Khan IV – #Zarkava and #Siyouni, as painted by Charles Church.
Each box is handcrafted by expert artisans using traditional methods passed down through generations. 🟢🔴
👀 Today's Gr.2 July Stakes winner Zavateri is a son of Zeroua, a daughter of #Siyouni and granddaughter of #Zarkava who was bred by the Aga Khan Studs and sold
at Arqana December Sale in 2021 to Avenue Bloodstock. 👏
☀️ 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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🥇 Winners in France and Ireland yesterday!
#Zaydann (left) broke his maiden at Compiegne by 3 lengths. This Dubawi colt is out of #Siyouni's Stakes winning daughter #Zaykava (out of #Zarkava).
#Deressa (right) won her second race at Gowran Park. She is by #Zarak out of Stakes performer #Deremah.
🥇 Another success for #Zabiari, as he takes the Prix de la Thève at Chantilly.
This four-year-old son of Wootton Bassett is now the winner of 4 races, which include the Gr.3 Prix des Chênes as a juvenile. His female family is that of #Zarkava and #Zarak. 🟢🔴
🥇 #Zahrann broke his maiden yesterday by 7 lengths at Cork, looking like a Stakes horse in the making.
The Night Of Thunder colt is from the family of #Zarkava, being out of Gr.3 winner Zannda, who produced a #Vadeni filly this year. 🟢🔴
😍 This foal is by a #2000Guineas winner out of a mare by a #2000Guineas winner!
She’s a Night Of Thunder filly out of Gr.3 Prix Minerve winner #Zarshana, who is a #SeaTheStars half-sister to #Zarkava.
Zarshana, already dam of 2 Stakes performers incl. Gr.1 runner-up Zarir, visits #Erevann in 2025.
🏆 #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.
🥇 A winning return for #Zabiari in the Prix My Love at Saint-Cloud!
A Gr.3 winner and twice Stakes runner-up at 2, this Wootton Bassett colt missed most of 2024 but is firmly back in the winners circle for 2025. He's out of Stakes performer #Zaridiya, from the family of #Zarkava and #Zarak. 🟢🔴
🎂 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. 🟢🔴
😍 A special #MareMonday today! 😍
Champion #Zarkava pictured with her daughters #Zarkamiya, #Zaykava, #Zarka and #Zarkala.
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.
