Mukhadram enjoying first season in stud

Dubai - According to the stud director Richard Lancaster, the covering fees are relatively moderate, but reasonable and dictated by the market trends.

Mukhadram has enjoyed a successful first season in stud after covering 120 mares since he was retired to stud last year where he's standing at Shadwell Farm, the UK arm of Shaikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum operation in Newmarket.
According to the stud director Richard Lancaster, the covering fees are relatively moderate, but reasonable and dictated by the market trends.
"It's a promising start and the future expectations will depend to a greater extent on how Mukhadram would be envisaged by breeders as a useful stallion," he told newsmen during a brief visit to the stud.
"This smart son of Shamardal has showed his class at an early stage of his racing career. Being bought for a £190,000 in 2009 Tattersalls, Mukhadram race winnings total was in the tune of £2 million and he has shown himself to be one of the most consistent top level performers over 10f in recent years," Lancaster said.
In 2013, Mukhadram won two Group-3 events besides the Group-2 York Stakes as well as finishing second in the Prince of Wales's Stakes (Gr.1) at Royal Ascot, beaten just a neck by multiple Gr.1 winner Al Kazeem.
Early in 2014, Mukhadram showcased his power and determination in the Dubai World Cup at Meydan with a stunning run, but was caught on the line by Godolphin's African Story. And after his return to Europe, Mukhadram lived up to his name when he forced an emphatic two-length win over his 8 rivals in the Coral-Eclipse Group-1 at Sandown Park. Other stallions that are standing at the same venue include Haafhd, who is also enjoying a productive stud career. He has a career winners/runners strike rate of 59 per cent with his flat runners and of 37 per cent with his National Hunt representatives.  He sired his first Gr.1 winner, Junoob, in 2014 who won the Metropolitan (Gr.1) at Randwick, Australia.
Lancaster said: "Haafhd is also the sire of leading sprint handicapper Seeking Magic, highlighting his ability to sire quality stock over a range of distances. In fact, Haafhd - who has also supplied Cheltenham Festival scorers Carlito Brigante and Countrywide Flame - has sired worldwide black-type performers over fibe furlongs, a mile and a mile and a half this year."
Meanwhile, Lancaster noted that breeders looking to send their mare to a well-priced sire who consistently produces stakes winners and performers year after year, should re-visit the possibility of Nayef as a stallion choice in 2015.
"Nayef's daughter Tasaday proved to be a force to be reckoned with in 2013 with wins in both the Gr.2 Shadwell Prix de la Nonette and Gr.3 Prix de Psyche. Her 2014 record did nothing to dampen the spirits, with 'Listed' wins in Dubai and the UK, before again showing her mettle in an international field when running on strongly into third place in the Gr.1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks for Godolphin," he said.
"A winning seasonal debut in the 2014 Ardglen Amethyst Stakes (Group-3) marked the start of a stand-out three-year-old career for Nayef's second best son Mustajeeb.