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Pedigree notes on the winners at the Dubai World Cup meeting at Meydan on March 26.

DUBAI WORLD CUP: California Chrome, now the richest thoroughbred earner in US racing history, is by a sire who was standing on a reported $US2000 service fee.

The 2014 Kentucky Derby winner completed the ultimate rags-to-riches story with his winin the world's richest horse race, taking hjis earnings to over $US12.5 million.

He is the best of just three stakes performers sired by Lucky Pulpit, a 15-year-old stallion who stands in California, and is the only winner produced by the winning Not For Love mare Love The Chase.

Love The Chase was purchased by agent Greg Gilchrist at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2YOs In Training Sale for $30,000 and was later purchased privately by Cal;ifornia Chrome’s owners and breeders in 2009 for just $8000.

The next black type performers in California Chrome’s pedigree are found under his third dam.

Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky will stand California Chrome at the end of his career after they purchased a 30 per cent share in the five-time G1 winner last year.

SHEEMA CLASSIC: Dubawi’s son Postponed was a 360,000gns graduate of the 2012 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale where he was purchased by John Warren and Charlie Gordon-Watson Bloodstock.

The four-year-old, winner of last year's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, was bred by St Albans Bloodstock out of the Dubai Destination mare Ever Rigg, a sister to the stakes-placed Bite Of The Cherry and Pietra Dura.

Their dam is the G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Bianca Nera, a sister to Hotelgenie Dot Com, the dam of dual G1 winner Simply Perfect.

Postponed continues the fine record of Dubawi on Meydan's biggest day as he is the sire of two winners of the World Cup in the last five years (Monterosso; Prince Bishop).

Ever Rigg is due again to Dubawi, who recently sired his 100th individual stakes winner and was the world’s leading G1 sire in 2015 with 11 winners.

Postponed, formerly trained by Luca Cumani, beat two Japanese bred runners Duramente (King Kamehameha) and Last Impact (Deep Impact).

DUBAI TURF: Real Steel became the second Dubai World Cup meeting winner by Japan’s super sire Deep Impact, joining the 2014 Sheema Classic winner Gentildonna. The 4YO Real Steel is also the 22nd G1 winner by the son of Sunday Silence.

Bred by Northern Farm, Real Impact is a brother to the Japanese Listed winner Prodigal Son and six-time Japanese scorer Langley. He is also a half-brother to Raddolcendo, a Japanese winner by Danehill Dancer.

They are out of the unraced Storm Cat mare Loves Only Me, a half-sister to the 2005 champion European two-year-old filly Rumplestiltskin, the dam of G1 winner Tapestry and G3 winners John F Kennedy and I Am Beautiful.

Loves Only Me was purchased by Katsumi Yoshida for $900,000 at the 2009 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

GOLDEN SHAHEEN: Veteran sprinter Muarrab became the 15th individual G1 winner for the leading Green Desert sire Oasis Dream, who had another superb season last year courtesy of G1 winners Muhaarar and Goldream.

Muarrab was bred by Stratford Place Stud from the winning Wolfhound mare Licence To Thrill, dam of the black-type winners Bungleinthejungle and Waveband from the family of Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Style Vendome.

He was purchased as a yearling by Shadwell at the 2010 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale for 280,000gns.

AL QUOZ SPRINT: Australian breeding stood up when the Queensland-bred Buffering, a son of Mossman, recorded his first international win at the age of eight. The Robert Heathcote-trained Buffering is from the Anabaa mare Action Annie and is now the winner of seven G1 races and more than $3.5 million. Buffering is one of four winners produced by Action Annie, a half-sister to the German Listed-placegetter Don't Go Crazy and US stakes-placed Instant Strike. She is also the dam of Australian winners Suite Annie and Hussyana and South Korean winner. Canny Action. Buffering was purchased by New Zealand bloodstock agent Paul Willetts for trainer Robert Heathcote at the 2009 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale for $22,000 and he is one of five G1 winners by his sire Mossman.

UAE DERBY: Japan struck when the Mikio Matsunaga-trained Lani, a colt by champion US sire Tapit from the Sunday Silence mare Heavenly Romance, beat the favourite Polar River (Congrats) with another Japanese raider Yu Change (Swift Current) third. The win came in the same week the death of Tapit’s dam was reported in the US.

DUBAI GOLD CUP: The Aga Khan-owned and bred favourite Vazirabad, a 4YO gelding by Manduro from the Linamix mare Visorama, won his sixth consecutive race beating Big Orange (Duke Of Marmalade), having his first start since finishing fifth in the Melbourne Cup.

Vazirabad, one of France’s highest-rated three-year-olds of 2015, is from the G3-winning mare Visorama and is a half-brother to the Stakes winner Visoriyna.

Manduro, the brilliant Horse of the Year and Timeform world Champion, has sired three G1 winners in his first two crops that feature top fillies Ribbons and Charity Line. As well as Vazirabad, Manduro has the unbeaten G1-winning juvenile Ultra who is being aimed at the Derby this season.

GODOLPHIN MILE: Champion Dubai trainer Doug Watson prepared the first three to finish and Pivotal sired the quinella led by the 5YO entire One Man Band (Pivotal x Musicana by Cape Cross) four a three quarter lengths ahead of Faulkner(Pivotal).