Four-year-old Creachadoir has been a wonderful campaigner for his sire King's Best and he finally gained the Group One tag he so richly deserved with an authoritative win in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation.
At three, Creachadoir won two early-season Group Three events before finishing runner-up in both the French and Irish Guineas. Having switched to Godolphin from Jim Bolger’s yard, he went on to win the G3 Joel Stakes and run fourth in the G1 Champion Stakes at Newmarket before posting arguably his best run of a busy campaign when he lost out on the G1 Hong Kong Mile by a short-head to Good Ba Ba in December.
Bred in Ireland by Frank Dunne, Creachadoir is out of Sadima, by Sadler’s Wells, who is also dam of Arc runner-up Youmzain.
Looking ahead, Creachadoir has potential engagements in either the Queen Anne Stakes - a race in which the Godolphin stable has an excellent record with recent winners including Dubai Destination and Refuse To Bend – or the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. He is also entered in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown.
King’s Best is also the sire of G1 winners Proclamation and Dubai Surprise.
On the Preakness undercard at Pimlico on Saturday, there was G3 success for the Todd Pletcher-trained Roshani, a five-year-old daughter of Darley Japan stallion Fantastic Light. She won the $100,000 Gallorette Handicap top record her sixth career win.
