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The Aga Khan’s famous colours were back in the Royal Ascot spotlight when the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained Ervedya recorded her second successive G1 win Friday’s Coronation Stakes for three-year-old fillies
The daughter of Siyouni had won the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp at her previous start last month.
Ervedya squared accounts with Found, reversing the placings from last October’s G1 Prix Marcel Boussac, and also gave Rouget compensation after his filly Lesstalk In Paris finished second in last year’s Coronation Stakes.“For quite a few years now, I have come here with nice horses,” Rouget said. “It was a deep dream to come and win a Group One here.
“Her sire Siyouni has put a lot of speed into her pedigree. She is very courageous and it’s a tribute to Siyouni.”Ervedya (Siyouni x Elva by King’s Best), who has now won six of her eight career starts, is the only G1 winner to date by Siyouni, a son pf Pivotal standing at Haras de Bonneval.
Siyouni’s oldest progeny are three and include four stakes winners.Ervedya’s dam Elva was G3 placed and has produced two other winners.
• OUTSTANDING Green Desert stallion Oasis Dream sired his 14th Group One winner when his 3YO colt Muhaarar won the inaugural Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot on Friday.Muhaarar (Oasis Dream x Tahrir by Linamix) is among 95 stakes winners by Oasis Dream, who will cover mares to Southern Hemisphere time in the UK this year at Banstead Manor Stud for a fee of £75,000.
Muhaarar, a homebred for Sheikh Hamdan, has no won four of his eight starts for trainer Charles Hills.His dam Tahrir was stakes placed and has also produced the Listed winner Sajwah (Exceed And Excel), and stakes-placed pair Tamaathul (Tiger Hil) and Raasekha (Pivotal).
• SHAMARDAL sired his 80th stakes winner and 41st Group winner when Balios won the G2 King Edward VII Stakes on Friday’s Royal Ascot program at just his third race start.Balios (Shamardal x Ella Galanate by Galileo) is owned by Al Asayl Bloodstock and was bred by Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan.
His winning dam Elle Galanate is a stakes-placed daughter of the G1 winner Elle Danzig (Roi Danzig), dam also of the G3 winner Elle Shadow and the Listed winners El Comodin and Elle Gala.• GALILEO sired his 184th stakes winner when his 3YO colt Aloft won the Listed Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot at his first start for the year.
Aloft is out of the Storm Cat mare Dietrich.