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Dubai Mile, who emerged victorious in the prestigious 2022 Group One Criterium de Saint-Cloud, has now come to the end of his racing career and will start a new stallion chapter. He will join the esteemed Manton Park stallion roster for the 2024 breeding season.
Following an injury during routine exercise, Dubai Mile's plans to train under Freddie and Martyn Meade at the Manton Estate have changed.
Instead, he will join Meade's breeding operation sooner than expected. The 3YO colt won three of his eight career starts for Ahmad Al Shaikh's Green Team Racing, and joint ownership with Manton Park has been established.
Dubai Mile is the first Group One winning son of Roaring Lion to stand at stud, providing his late sire with his first Group winner from his sole crop. His dam, Beach Bunny, has produced nine winners from nine runners, including Dubai Mile and Group performers Naadirr and Beach Belle. Dubai Mile will stand at Manton Park Stud alongside Aclaim, and his nomination fee will be announced at a later time.
Joint owner of Dubai Mile and owner of Manton Park, Martyn Meade, welcomed the fourth stallion to stand at the Wiltshire stud, “We were disappointed in having to bring Dubai Mile’s racing career to an end sooner than expected as he had been training so well prior to sustaining a career ending injury at home on the gallops. We are however delighted to be adding Dubai Mile to our stallion roster and are confident he will sire many high-class performers. Roaring Lion was very special and a champion in his own right, to have his first Group One winning progeny from his only crop standing here is an exciting time for Manton Park Stud. Dubai Mile was very tough on the racecourse; we are very much looking forward to the next phase of his career at stud.”
Dubai Mile was ridden in seven of his eight career starts by jockey Daniel Muscutt, “Dubai Mile was a real professional from the get-go when I won on him on his second start. He was very versatile ground wise including on the all-weather. He would find a very easy rhythm straight from the stalls but would really switch on at the business end of a race as he showed when winning his Group One at St Cloud. He was very brave that day and refused to be beaten by Arrest on that occasion. He also ran very well in the 2000 Guineas.”