The Champion two-year-old colt of his year and the nemesis of Miss Finland and Wonderful in the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes, blueblood Redoute’s Choice colt Nadeem now sits atop of the first-season sire leader board based on individual winners.
Victory by the Lee Freedman-trained Crucial at Mornington on May 10 gave Nadeem his seventh winner overall and his second in the space of two days after the victory of Dark Angel on Sunday.
Jumping away well from the barriers, jockey Ben Melham allowed the filly to move forward, and although travelling wide throughout, she had enough in reserve to record a length victory over Perfectness, with Commands filly Trail a neck back in third.
Bred by Darley Australia and raced in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed, Crucial is the first foal of the Fantastic Light mare Dawn Attack, a half-sister to three-time G1 winner Desert King and from the family of Champion racehorses Maroof and Callwood Dancer. Dawn Attack has a Flying Spur yearling filly named Hazard, a Commands weanling colt and was covered last spring by Medaglia d’Oro, the sire of last Sunday’s G1 Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty.
Standing the forthcoming breeding season at Darley Kelvinside at a fee of $22,000 (inc GST), Nadeem is already the sire of multiple G3-winning filly Triple Asset, New Zealand Stakes-performer The Aftershock and impressive winners Irish Times, Specter and Hundred Cube.
