FIRST SEASON SIRE PROFILE
Taken from the Racing Post
First Season Sire Profile, by Nancy Sexton
OASIS
DREAM 00 b Green Desert – Hope, by Dancing
Brave
Stands at Banstead Manor Stud
Fee: £25,000
No first crop sire has been more eagerly awaited this year than
OASIS
DREAM, the best sprinter of his generation and a
record breaking Group 1 winner at two. Although he has sired few
runners to date, he was almost off the mark last week when
Littlemisssunshine, making her second start, was touched off in a
conditions event at Ascot.
It took three trips to the racecourse for OASIS
DREAM to reach the winners enclosure, but
he then jumped straight into Group 1 company to take the
Middle Park Stakes from Tomahawk in record time.
Although third on his three-year-old debut to Choisir in the
Group 2 King’s Stand Stakes, OASIS
DREAM turned the tables emphatically in the
Group 1 July Cup. His next start, proved to be merely a
procession, as he won by two and a half lengths hard
held.
He possesses a strong pedigree and, like last year’s leading
freshman sire Invincible Spirit, he is a Group 1-winning sprinter
by Green Desert. His dam, Hope, bred the Poule d’Essai des Poulains
winner Zenda, and is a sister to Wemyss Bight, dam of the promising
young sire Beat Hollow.
He also holds a strong hand numerically with 106 foals in his
first crop, including siblings to Superstar Leo, Acclamation,
Definite Article, Distant Way and Branston Abbey. His owner
Juddmonte Farms supported him well, sending him mares such as
Docklands, the dam of Rail Link; Arrive, a Listed-winning sister to
Hasili and dam of the exciting Promising Lead; Insinuate, the dam
of Stronghold; and Orford Ness, the dam of Home Affairs.
His first yearlings were well received, bringing an average
price of 92,573gns. At the top end, John Ferguson paid 550,000gns
for a colt out of Side Of Paradise, who is now with Godolphin
under the name Keep Discovering.
Speed is likely to be the forte for OASIS
DREAM’s stock, many of whom were smallish,
compact types. However, as he is from a
high-class-middle-distance family, some may stay further and
progress well.
Date:
11 May 2007