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24.03.2025
Alflaila sold to stand in New Zealand in 2025
The Shadwell homebred will relocate to White Robe Lodge
Shadwell's homebred multiple Group winner Alflaila has been retired and will take up stallion duties at White Robe Lodge in New Zealand.
The six-year-old, from the family of other Shadwell stars Hammiya and Shaqira, was sent out by Owen Burrows to win seven of his 19 starts, including back-to-back renewals of the Group 2 York Stakes at York in 2023 and 2024.
He also scored twice in Group 3 company, in the Strensall Stakes at York and the Darley Stakes at Newmarket, and was not beaten far at all when fourth behind Auguste Rodin in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot last year. His prize-money earnings came to just shy of £560,000.
“He repeatedly proved he belonged at the top level,” said Burrows, paying tribute to the consistent performer. “He was sharp enough to win over six furlongs first time out as a two-year-old and he showed a brilliant turn of foot that day.
“As a three-year-old, he never stopped improving and as we stepped him up in trip to a mile, he was getting better.
“That winter at the end of his three-year-old season he travelled out to Bahrain where he’d probably have started quite a short-priced favourite for the Bahrain Trophy, but unfortunately, he picked up an injury out there. But he was very resilient and came back and won the York Stakes on resumption, a race which he won again last year in tenacious fashion.
“It was a very big run in both the Irish Champion Stakes and again last year to finish fourth in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, where he had his ground slightly taken and he was right on the heels of some proper top-class horses.
“He is a very athletic horse who was tough as well. He came back from a few little setbacks that plenty wouldn’t have, but he did really want it. I think breeders will be impressed. He is very attractive and is all in proportion, moves well and has a good athletic build on him."
Alflaila will stand at an introductory fee of NZ$7,000, with a limited number of lifetime breeding rights available.
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