Dubawi, the world’s leading living sire of Royal Ascot winners, added an unparalleled 24th successful runner at the meeting on Wednesday 21 June when his daughter Rogue Millennium landed the G2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes.
Tom Clover’s charge raced very keenly towards the rear under Danny Tudhope during the early stages of the one-mile race, but began to make headway two furlongs out. As the field quickened for home, there looked to be three or four potential winners but Rogue Millennium took the lead inside the final furlong and crossed the line a neck ahead of Random Harvest.
Rogue Millennium has now won or placed in seven of her 10 starts, including victory in the Listed Oaks Trial at Lingfield last year. She was last seen finishing a close second in the G2 Middleton Stakes at York’s May meeting.
Bred by Shadwell, Rogue Millennium is out of the Group-winning Nayef mare Hawaafez and is from the extended female family of Imagine.
Dubawi was crowned Champion Sire in 2022 and already has 22 individual Black Type winners to his name this year including three horses who have triumphed at G1 level.
Tomorrow, he has three of his progeny lining up in the Gold Cup, headed by the well fancied Eldar Eldarov, who became Dubawi’s 150th Group winner in the Queen’s Vase at the Royal meeting last year.
