LEADING DAM DARARA Died Last Week

Go Go Go Horserace: LEADING DAM DARARA DIES. Darara, dam of cluster One performers Dar Re Mi and Rewilding, died last week at the age of twenty nine.

A daughter of prime Ville, Darara won the Prix Vermeille throughout her racing days for owner the Aga Khan and was a half-sister to prime sire Darshaan and Dalara, dam of multiple cluster One winner Daliapour.

Darara was purchased for Lord and girl Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud in 1994 and made four individual cluster One winners throughout her time within the paddocks.

Diaghilev, her colt by Sadler's Wells who sold for a record three.4million guineas as a yearling, was a winner at the best level in Hong Kong, where he raced below the name River Dancer.

Dariyoun was a gaggle One winner in Spain and a good performer in France however Dar Re Mi and Rewilding are going to be most acquainted to British racegoers.

Dar Re Mi landed the Irish Pretty Polly Stakes and therefore the Yorkshire Oaks as a four-year-old before winning the cluster Dubai Sheema Classic the subsequent year, taking her career earnings to £2.7million.

Rewilding, who was Darara's final foal in 2007, additionally won the Sheema Classic in 2011 before claiming last year's Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot, beating Australian superstar therefore you think that within the method.

Madeleine Lloyd Webber said: "Andrew and that i feel grateful and honoured to own owned such a world category foundation mare in Darara.

"It is troublesome to quantify how necessary her contribution has been to Watership Down Stud. Luckily we have a tendency to own her 2 daughters in order that her outstanding bloodline can continue. However, it absolutely was a really unhappy day for Watership Down Stud."