So Mi Dar, a hugely promising daughter of Dubawi and one-time Oaks contender before injury sidelined her for much of the season, returned to the racecourse in triumphant fashion on 14 September with an impressive win in the Listed John Musker Fillies’ Stakes at Yarmouth.
John Gosden’s charge was settled in second behind her paternal half-sister and last year’s G1 Juddmonte International winner Arabian Queen, who took up her usual front-running position. Travelling beautifully under Frankie Dettori, So Mi Dar was still cruising as they entered the home straight and needed only the gentlest of urging to take the lead and see off the late challenge from another Dubawi filly in Nezwaah to win by half a length.
So Mi Dar is now unbeaten in four starts, including a four-length romp in the G3 Musidora Stakes at York’s May meeting. She will now be aimed at the G1 Prix l’Opera.
Owned and bred by Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber’s Watership Down Stud, So Mi Dar is out of Singspiel’s three-time G1 winner Dar Re Mi, herself a daughter of G1 winner Darara.
She is one of 22 individual Stakes winners this year for Dubawi, who added a 24th G1 winner to his record at the weekend when Left Hand took the Prix Vermeille, just after his daughter Shamreen landed the G2 Blandford Stakes at the Curragh.
