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"He has good size and scope, is very pleasing to the eye and is being well received on the farm. He has a great temperament and we believe he will handle the sales experience well."

Shadwell’s homebred champion Baaeed will pass the next milestone in his stallion career when his first offspring to be offered at public auction comes under the hammer in Japan on July 9.

The first-crop youngster is being presented during the foal session of the prestigious Japan Racing Horse Association’s Select Sale, which takes place in the leafy surroundings of Northern Horse Park, Hokkaido.

Offered by Paca Paca Farm as Lot 400, the chestnut colt was born in Japan on February 25 and possesses an eye-catching pedigree that is typical of the quality contained within Baaeed’s debut book of mares.

The colt is out of Fahan Mura, a daughter of English Channel whose nine victories in the US included the Gr.3 Robert J. Frankel Stakes. She was also placed in two Gr.2 contests, namely the Goldikova Stakes and the John C Mabee Stakes.

Watch Fahan Mura win the Gr.3 Robert J. Frankel Stakes at Santa Anita:

The dam, whose immediate family includes North American Gr.1 winners Pirate’s Revenge, champion two-year-old filly Sweet Catomine and her Breeders’ Cup-winning full-sister Life Is Sweet, joined the Paca Paca Farm broodmare band at Fasig-Tipton in November 2019 at a cost of $450,000.

“We were relieved when the Baaeed colt was born in late February as his dam, Fahan Mura, carried the pregnancy for exactly one calendar year,” said Harry Sweeney, owner of Paca Paca Farm. “As you might expect, he was a mature, good-sized colt on arrival and has done very well since.

“Currently he has good size and scope, is very pleasing to the eye and is being well received on the farm. He has a great temperament and we believe he will handle the sales experience well. I’m somewhat torn about selling him at all, and he will have a decent reserve when he enters the ring. If he does not sell, he will race for me here in Japan.”

Explaining the decision to send Fahan Mura to Baaeed, Sweeney added: “Baaeed was a champion and a six-time Gr.1 winner on turf and is a very exciting sire. I was particularly impressed that most of his Gr.1 wins were at a mile, and I believe this colt will have the speed required to be a racing success in Japan.”

Paca Paca Farm is one of the leading breeding operations in Japan, with its graduates headed by Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) hero Deep Brillante. In a neat coincidence, Paca Paca Farm was also responsible for the first yearling by Baaeed’s sire Sea The Stars to be sold at public auction. The half-brother to Mastercraftsman fetched ¥40,000,000 from Kaneko Makoto Holdings in 2012. 

Image: Baaeed wins the Gr.1 Juddmonte International and becomes the highest-rated horse in Europe since Frankel 

Baaeed’s illustrious pedigree is already highly respected in Japan, with his dual Gr.1-winning full-brother Hukum having been recruited to Darley’s Japanese stallion farm ahead of the 2024 breeding season.

The siblings descend from Sheikh Hamdan’s blue hen Height Of Fashion, and her sire sons Nashwan, Nayef and Unfuwain are not the only high-achieving stallions in the family. The same lineage was also responsible for the outstanding Deep Impact, who claimed the Japanese champion sire title no less than 11 times.

Baaeed was crowned World Champion turf horse and miler in 2022, while his Official Rating of 135 remains the highest in Europe since Frankel. His sensational racing career featured ten consecutive victories, a run that included no less than six Gr.1 triumphs, including the Lockinge, Queen Anne and Sussex Stakes, as well as the Juddmonte International.

Those top-level strikes saw Baaeed defeat 19 individual Gr.1 winners who claimed 45 top-flight races between them.

This combination of exceptional race record, a blue-chip pedigree and notable good looks has attracted strong support from many of the world’s leading breeders in his first two seasons. 

Click here to view the Baaeed x Fahan Mura colt foal online