🥇 #Imdala breaks her maiden at Le Lion d'Angers! This #Siyouni filly, 📸 as a foal in Ireland, is out of #Imera, who sold at Arqana Breeding Stock Sale to Haras de Castillon in 2023. 🟢🔴

🏆 Gr.1 winner and Derby runner-up Maltese Cross adds the Gr.2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at York to his tally! The son of #SeaTheStars, a graduate of Tattersalls Book 1, was bred by Ecurie Du Sud & Ecurie Gribomont. Congratulations to George Waud & the William Haggas stable. 👏

🏆 A first Stakes victory for #Mirik in the Listed Grand Prix de Clairefontaine on his first try over 2400m! The son of Kameko is out of #Mila, who is also the dam of this year's Gr.1 Maghull Novices' Chase winner #Mirabad. 🟢🔴

💫 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 💫 #Erevann possessed great speed over a mile, as a Gr.2 winner and Gr.1 performer. Don't miss the first yearlings by this son of Dubawi and 3x Gr.1 winner #Ervedya at Arqana ➡️ tinyurl.com/FirstYearlings #FlashbackFriday

🚀 𝘝𝘢 𝘷𝘢 𝘷𝘰𝘰𝘮! 🚀 Remembering #Vadeni's terrific turn of foot in the Prix du Jockey Club, which he won by a record 5 lengths. Don't miss his first yearlings at Arqana ➡️ tinyurl.com/FirstYearlings #ThrowbackThursday

🏆 A quick-fire 'Stars' Stakes double as Star Performer lands the Listed Hurry Harriet Stakes at Gowran Park. Bred by Sunderland Holding and owned by Doreen Tabor, the Goffs Breeze-Up graduate is the second new Stakes winner for #SeaTheStars in less than 30 minutes. 👏

🏆 A new 2yo Stakes winner for #SeaTheStars! Quest For Stars remains unbeaten, taking the Listed Stonehenge Stakes at Salisbury for the Godolphin team. Bred by Ind N Singforthemoment 2024, he is a graduate of last year's Arqana August Yearling Sale. 👏

🏆 Champion Three-Year-Old #Vadeni ✅ Prix du Jockey Club-Eclipse Stakes double ✅ Stakes winner at 2 💫 Group 2 winning miler #Erevann ✅ Son of sire of sires Dubawi ✅ Out of 3x Gr.1 winner Don't miss their first yearlings at Arqana August Sale. ➡️ tinyurl.com/FirstYearlings

#OTD in 2023 2yo #Calandagan made his debut in a maiden at Deauville. He finished third behind #Zarak's future Gr.1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero Metropolitan. 🟢🔴

🥇 #Kalir won his second consecutive race yesterday at The Curragh. This Night Of Thunder gelding is out of Stakes winner #Kalaxana, a half-sister to Gr.1 winning graduate #Kalapour from the family of #Kalanisi. 🟢🔴

🏆 Speedy #Samangan takes the Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville, a first success in this race for the Aga Khan Studs! This 3yo Blue Point colt - a Gr.2 winner at 2 - is out of #Samadrisa, a half-sister to triple Gr.1 winner #Sarafina. She has a #Vadeni yearling filly. 🟢🔴

🏆 A new Stakes winner for #Siyouni as #Canneza wins the Listed Prix Isola Bella at Deauville. Bred by the Aga Khan Studs and related to Gr.1 winner #Candelari, she sold at last year's Arqana Breeding Stock Sale to Mckeever Bloodstock. Congratulations to her new connections!

🏆 A first Stakes success for 2yo #Drazinda in the LR Prix de la Vallée d'Auge at Deauville! The daughter of #Darbanza was bred by Princess Zahra Aga Khan, who was there to welcome her filly into the winners' enclosure. She's another Stakes winner for #Siyouni as a broodmare sire. 🟢🟤

🏇 Les Aga Khan Studs ont eu le plaisir de soutenir à nouveau cette année l'Association Poneys au Galop, en sponsorisant une épreuve dédiée aux jeunes cavaliers lors du meeting de Deauville. Un grand bravo à tous les participants ! 👏

🥇 A great first US victory for Aga Khan-bred #Ashikidah at Saratoga yesterday. She sold to trainer Philip Antonacci at last year's Arqana Breeding Stock Sale. Congratulations to her connections! 👏

🥇 An impressive winning debut for #Daryoura yesterday at Dieppe. By Dubawi, she is out of Stakes winner #Dariyza, who is herself a daughter of Gr.1 winner #Daryakana, dam of #Daryz. Dariyza is in foal to Daryz's sire #SeaTheStars for 2027. 🟢🔴

🏆 A new Group winner for #SeaTheStars at Goodwood as Enceladus takes the Gordon Stakes! This Niarchos family homebred, out of Gr.2 winner Martini Glass, is now unbeaten in 3 starts this season. 👏

The story of Calandagan's epic success in the Japan Cup last November, as told by Francis Graffard, Nemone Routh, Jérémy Lobel, Mickaël Barzalona and Princess Zahra Aga Khan. @agakhanstuds.com @graffardracing.bsky.social #JapanRacingAssociation #WorldHorseRacing youtube.com/watch?v=rk66...

CALANDAGAN: A Japan Cup Journey | カランダガン：ジャパンカップへの旅

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🥇🥈 A 1-2 for the Aga Khan silks in Ireland yesterday evening, as #Sindagan finished a length ahead of #Almeiyda in the Irish EBF Maiden at Galway. Sindagan (📸) is the first foal out of #Sindhia, whose family is that of #Sinndar. Sindhia was covered by #Erevann this year.

🏆 A third Stakes success for #Zaydann, this time in the Gr.3 Grand Prix de Vichy! This son of #Zaykava, bred on the same Dubawi-#Siyouni cross as #Erevann and closely related to #Zarak, is now the winner of his last 5 starts. 🟢🔴

Nemone Routh of @agakhanstuds.com looks ahead to Calandagan's run in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes @ascotracecourse.bsky.social @rpbloodstock.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=Wq9T...

"He is going to have to be at the top of his game" | Calandagan ready for King George defence

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🏆 Algebre a new 2yo Stakes winner for #Siyouni yesterday in the Listed Prix des Jouvenceaux & Jouvencelles. The Wertheimer & Frère homebred is out of Gr.3 winner and Gr.1 placed Soustraction. 👏

🥇 #Kalir kept on well to break his maiden yesterday at Killarney races. This 3yo Night Of Thunder gelding, who is out of Stakes winner #Kalaxana and from the family of #Kalanisi, has never finished out of the top 4. 🟢🔴

🏆 Maltese Cross becomes the 2⃣5⃣th Group 1 winner for #SeaTheStars! The Derby runner-up goes one better in the Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp. Congratulations to breeders Ecurie Du Sud & Ecurie Gribomont, owner George Waud and the William Haggas team. 👏👏👏

🏆 #Behrayna maintains her unbeaten record in the Gr.2 Prix de Malleret at ParisLongchamp, her third Stakes victory!

🥇 Twice the runner-up on her first two starts, now #Liarma breaks her maiden by two lengths. She's by Bated Breath out of #Lidena, who sold at last year's Goffs November Sale and is a half-sister to the dam of #Zarak's Gr.2 winner Flatten The Curve.

😍 '#Calandafans’ can now take home their own miniature version of the 2025 World's Best Racehorse! #Calandagan becomes the first Flat racehorse to be immortalised in plush form by Turf Stars. A contribution from every plushie sold will be made to retraining charity Au Delà Des Pistes. 💚❤️

Calandagan turned in a dazzling final effort to pass all seven rivals and claim a second success in the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. 32.67s for the final 3f/600m is extremely rapid. @agakhanstuds.com @graffardracing.bsky.social @rpbloodstock.bsky.social @ascotracecourse.bsky.social

😍 From racehorse to riding horse! 😍 Gilltown Stud's Chelsea Jay recently rehomed #Dabashan, who raced twice for the Aga Khan Studs & trainer Johnny Murtagh, placing once. Here they are on their first outing together last Sunday at Clonmel Agricultural Show (📸 Radka Preisler). 🥰

🙌 2 previous winners of the Eclipse Stakes for #FlashbackFriday. 🏆 2009 #SeaTheStars - now one of Europe's leading sires 🏆 2022 #Vadeni - first yearlings selling next month at the Arqana August Sale