FIRST STAKES WINNER FOR OASIS DREAM

First stakes winner for Oasis Dream

Nancy Sexton -Article taken from the Racing Post

OASIS DREAM was represented by his first stakes winner yesterday when Visit put up an impressive performance to land the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot.

The Khalid Abdullah homebred, who was breaking her maiden, showed a fine turn of foot to sweep past Reel Gift, giving her first-crop sire, Reel Buddy, a debut stakes success.

Visit hails from one of the most powerful families in the stud book. Her dam, Arrive, is a Listed winning sister to the outstanding producer Hasili, dam of Banks Hill, Dansili, Cacique, and Intercontinental, all of whom are by Danehill, also the sire of Visit’s Listed-placed sibling Promising Lead. This family also features the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes hero So Factual and top-class juvenile Sookera.

Triple Group 1 winner OASIS DREAM has sired eight winners in Britain and Ireland, as well as four other stakes performers, including the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes runner-up Starlit Sands and Group 3 placed Tuscan Evening.

The son of Green Desert stands for £25,000 at Banstead Manor Stud.

PRINCESS MARGARET STAKES GOES TO DREAM’S VISIT

Taken from the EBN

The first crop progeny by Banstead Manor Stud resident Oasis Dream are starting to make their presences felt, and the young son of Green Desert finally got his first Group winner yesterday, after several near misses.

The beautifully-bred Visit, from the immediate family of Banks Hill and Dansili, was the only maiden in Ascot’s Gr.3 Princess Margaret Stakes, having finished a very close and fast-finishing second on her debut at Newmarket – both races were won a few years ago by Russian Rhythm.

Drawn on the unfavoured stands side in yesterday’s contest, Visit came from the clouds to collar the long time leader Reel Gift (Reel Buddy) and score by a length and a half. Her trainer, Sir Michael Stoute, stated afterwards that she would continue on the Russian Rhythm route, and take in the Gr.2 Lowther Stakes and Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

Reel Gift (Reel Buddy) led a group of three racing on the far side of the course, and the trio were still ahead well inside the final quarter mile. Only the eventual winner, Visit, and the third and fourth, made any significant progress from the stands side group with Khalid Abdullah’s homebred scoring very impressively. The only maiden in the field, Visit is the first Stakes winner by her sire Oasis Dream, who has already had some near misses, being responsible for the Gr.2 Queen Mary Stakes runner-up Starlit Sands, the twice Group-placed Wilki, Gr.3 runner-up Tuscan Evening and Listed-placed Eastern Romance.

Visit is the third foal of Arrive (Kahyasi), whose second is April’s Newbury maiden winner Promising Lead (Danehill), who finished second in the Listed Michael Seeley Memorial next time out. Arrive won three of her five starts, including the Listed Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket, and is a full-sister to the French Listed winner Kerali, dam of Gr.1 winners Banks Hill, Intercontinental, Heat Haze and Cacique, Gr.1- placed Gr.2 winner and leading sire Dansili and Gr.2 winner Champs Elysees.

The grandam, the winning High Line mare Kerali, also produced the Stakesplaced Skiable (Niniski; dam of Gr.2 winner Three Valleys), the Listed-winning hurdler Kerawi (Warning) and the unraced Dissemble (Ahonoora), dam of multiple US Gr.1 winner Leroidesanimaux. The third dam, Sookera (Roberto), won the Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes and her 13 foals include the Group winners and sires Bold Fact and So Factual, and the Listedwinning filly Field Dancer.

Arrive’s foal is a full-sister to Visit.

Date:  30 July 2007