Former champion racehorse Frankel is marching towards his first overall Champion European Sire title with Shadwell homebred colt Mostahdaf claiming his second stakes success in the Listed Chasemore Farm Fortune Stakes (1m) at Sandown in a manner that suggests he may be a Group I winner of the future.
Trained by John and Thady Gosden and ridden by Jim Crowley, Mostahdaf scored a half length win as a hot favourite taking his overall record to four wins from five starts.
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His lone defeat was in the Group I St James’s Place Stakes at Royal Ascot when he finished unplaced and came out of the race with an illness.
“Mostahdaf had a throat infection after Ascot and it's taken him a while but he's done it really well. John and Thady [Gosden] have been happy with him since and we wanted to run over a mile and a quarter but this was the only spot for him,” Richard Hills, assistant racing manager.
“It's worked out as the ground's on the soft side which has played to his stamina. He's an exciting horse for next year. We'll see how he comes out of the race and go from there, but you only have to look at the half-sister and how well she did when she went on to four and we're really excited about next year.”
Mostahdaf is a half-sister to dual Group I winner Nazeef, the Champion Older Female Miler of 2020. He is the second winner from stakes-winning Dubawi mare Handassa, a half-sister to Group winners Dester Stone and Euginio.
Mostahdaf is one of 23 stakes-winners for Frankel in 2021, with 19 of those stakes-winners coming in Europe, plus two in Australia and two in North America.
