Daily Racing Form National Digital Edition
Wuheida’s racing career ends with Dahlia Stakes win
Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Wuheida has been retired and will enter the broodmare band of ownerbreeder Godolphin.
The 4-year-old Dubawi filly made her first start since the Breeders’ Cup a winning one, with a four-length victory in the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes on May 6 at Newmarket. But that was her career finale, as Godolphin announced her retirement in a statement on its official website Monday, stating that “a few niggling injury worries” that the filly had dealt with in the past resurfaced following the race.
“I am pleased she went out on a high with such an emphatic win at Newmarket,” trainer Charlie Appleby said in the statement. “She was a very talented filly on the racecourse. She will go to stud, and Godolphin looks forward to seeing her progeny in due course.”
Wuheida won 4 of 8 career starts, earning $1,537,519. In addition to her signature victory in the Filly and Mare Turf last November at Del Mar, she won the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac-Criterium des Pouliches in France as a juvenile. She finished second in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes in England last year and was third in the German Oaks.
Out of the multiple Grade 1/ Group 1-winning Singspiel mare Hibaayeb, Wuheida is from the extended family of English champion Oh So Sharp.
Will Take Charge filly sparkles
Champion Will Take Charge was represented by his first winner in stylish fashion, as Tijori led throughout for a 3 1/4length debut victory at Santa Anita on Friday.
The filly was given a Beyer Speed Figure of 77, the top number this year for a 2-yearold of either sex.
Will Take Charge, who stands at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., has been among the commercial leaders of his class of freshman stallions. Tijori, bred in Kentucky by Rosilyn Polan, changed hands three times at public auction, each time proving a successful pinhook. The filly sold for $130,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, for $260,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale, and finally was purchased for Kaleem Shah at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March sale of 2-year-olds in training for $525,000. Simon Callaghan trains the filly. Out of the stakes-placed Tapit mare Anchorage, Tijori is a halfsister to Grade 3-placed Chip Leader. Tijori’s granddam is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner and prominent sire Broken Vow, and it is also the extended family of graded stakes winner Winged Victory and successful sires Where’s the Ring and Service Stripe.