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"The son of Cape Cross’s first Gr.1 winner of the year was Anmaat, who beat big-race mainstays Light Infantry and Facteur Cheval to take the Prix d’Ispahan"

Derrinstown Stud resident Awtaad confirmed himself one of the best value sires in Europe in 2023 as he supplied two individual Gr.1 winners of three Gr.1 races. 

The son of Cape Cross’s first Gr.1 winner of the year was Anmaat, who beat big-race mainstays Light Infantry and Facteur Cheval to take the Prix d’Ispahan at Longchamp in May.

Anmaat has also won Gr.2 and Gr.3 races, and has never finished out of the first three in 12 starts. His career earnings stand at just shy of £440,000.

Awtaad’s daughter Anisette, then came to the fore in the second half of the year. She was eased down to win the Gr.1 Del Mar Oaks in August by two and a half lengths and then produced another wide margin Gr.1 success, this time in the American Oaks on Boxing Day. She also scored in the Gr.2 San Clemente Stakes at Del Mar by a wide margin and ran second in the Gr.2 Rodeo Drive Stakes and Gr.3 Autumn Miss Stakes.

Anisette is another wonderfully consistent performer by her sire, having won five times, finished second three times and fourth once in all her starts.

Awtaad’s other flag bearers in 2023 were Gr.3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes and Listed Stand Cup winner Al Qareem and Australian black-type scorers Diamil and Maktoob.

His stock remains immensely popular at sales, as shown by another of his daughters, Primo Bacio, selling for 1,100,000gns in the Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions in December, Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins’ also purchased the easy Limerick maiden winner Ethical Diamond for 320,000gns at Tattersalls in July.