Throughout her thoroughly admirable career, Dar Re Mi has proved to be a filly of the highest quality and on Thursday she landed her second Group One event of the season when lowering the colours of dual Oaks heroine Sariska in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks.
This was the Singspiel filly’s second consecutive victory at the highest level and also the second time she had got the better of an oaks winner, having defeated Look Here in the G1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in June.
The Watership Down Stud homebred, who races in Lady Lloyd-Webber's light pink and grey silks, is yet to finish out of the frame in eleven career starts, which include wins in the G3 Prix Minerve and Listed Plantation Stud Stakes last season and runner-up slots to the great Zarkava in the G1 Prix Vermeille and Lush Lashes in last year’s Yorkshire Oaks.
Trainer John Gosden indicated that Dar Re Mi, a four-year-old daughter of the Top Ville mare Darara, herself a Prix Vermeille winner, could head back to Longchamp in an attempt to go one better in that race and that a trip to Santa Anita for the Breeders’ Cup may also be on the card.
Gosden was, of course, successful at last year’s Breeders’ Cup meeting, also held at the California track, with Classic winner Raven's Pass, a son of Darley America stallion Elusive Quality and now on the Darley roster himself at Kildangan Stud, and Juvenile Turf winner Donativum, by Cadeaux Genereux. Both horses raced in the colours of Princess Haya and, along with Derby winner New Approach, helped make the wife of Sheikh Mohammed achieve leading owner honours last season.
