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"Mohaather was a high-class two-year-old himself, winning the Horris Hill Stakes.... He improved at three to win the Greenham Stakes and was even better at four"

Shadwell’s promising first-season sire Mohaather reached the landmark of ten winners when his son Matharu scored comfortably in a seven-furlong nursery at Kempton on Wednesday. He now boasts an impressive 30% winners-to-runners strike-rate.

Matharu is trained by Richard Hughes for Jastar Capital Limited, having been bought by the handler for €40,000 from the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up Sale. He was bred by Awbeg Stud and is the first foal out of Chisana, a Bated Breath half-sister to smart two-year-olds Hunter Street and Sayif.

Mohaather’s double-figure haul of winners is headed by Big Mojo, who showed thrilling speed to defeat a high-class field in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood, and Yah Mo Be There, who scored in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes at Newbury by clear water. They give the sire a 6.1% stakes winners-to-runners strike-rate, the best figure of any European-based freshman sire in 2024.

Mojave River looks a black-type performer in waiting after winning a highly valuable Arqana sales race for unraced fillies at Deauville last week by an emphatic two lengths. Trainer Joseph O’Brien praised her as “a lovely filly with a good attitude”.

Mohaather’s other exciting winners include Serving With Style, who won a Carlisle maiden in good style, God Of War, who took a Doncaster novice stakes by one and a quarter lengths on his last start, and Skellig Isle, who was successful in a hotly contested Nottingham fillies’ maiden third time out.

His son Chesneys Charm has won on his last two outings, in a Chelmsford maiden and Wolverhampton nursery, with the Racing Post analysis of the latter contest noting that “his ability to quicken will stand him in good stead”.

Mohaather’s stock is proving to be tough and progressive, and he has another two nursery winners to his name: Corriamo, who struck in a seven-furlong event at Leicester for his sire’s former trainer Marcus Tregoning, and Dukes Of Haather, who scored over the same distance at Chester and has already earned more than £15,000.

Mohaather was a high-class two-year-old himself, winning the Horris Hill Stakes by one and a half lengths that season. He improved at three to win the Greenham Stakes and was even better at four, when he came with a devastating late run to beat Group 1 winners Circus Maximus, Siskin and Kameko in the Sussex Stakes.