Shares in Amina are now sold out.
A beautifully-bred, scopey and athletic four year old standing at an imposing 16’2, Amina is by the top-class sire Zarak, and is in training with Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer John McConnell.
Zarak’s stud fee has leapt from €12,000 to €60,000 in the space of just two seasons, as his stats are off the charts. Europe’s leading sire by winners to runners (68%), he has an incredible 11% stakes winners to runners and these have come from the mares he was covering at €12,000!
It’s not just on the flat that his progeny are excelling…he looks one of the most exciting flat sires of National Hunt performers that we have seen in some time, with his progeny including Galway Hurdle winner (and Grade 1 runner-up) Zarak The Brave, Grade 1 runner-up Bo Zenith and several other very talented sorts.
BLACK-TYPE THROUGHOUT THE FAMILY…!
It’s not just Zarak getting us excited. Amina is a half-sister to Harry Fry’s high-class novice hurdler Altobelli, who recorded a Racing Post Rating of 140 on his second start over hurdles (having also won both previous outings in a bumper and a hurdle) and finished runner-up on his first start this season in a £60,000 handicap hurdle at Ascot. The half-sister was a three-time winner on the flat in France and has since scored at Leopardstown from her three runs in Ireland this summer (now in foal).
The dam is a half-sister to now fewer than four black-type performers in Germany, including recent Listed winner Ability and German Derby fourth Areo, so it’s a family absolutely packed with talent.
