On Saturday, 21 October, on Qipco Champions day at Ascot, Bateel once more proved her class when she finished second in the Group 1 Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes. She was beaten by the Aidan O’Brien trained Hydrangea, a winner of the Group 1 Matron Stakes a month earlier at Leopardstown, while Group 1 winners Journey and Left Hand finished behind her.

I.T.C. – International Thoroughbred Consultants, the commercial arm of the Haras de Gouffern & de La Genevraye, had purchased Bateel’s dam Attractive Crown for Al Asayl at the November sales in Keeneland.

Congratulations to her breeder and owner Al Asayl, to her trainer Francis-Henri Graffard and her jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot!

This was Bateel’s third successive victory after lifting a Group 2 at Deauville in August and a Group 3 at Haydock in June. She is entered in the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot on 21 October.

The five-year-old daughter of Dubawi is out of Attractive Crown who I.T.C. purchased for US$ 260,000 at the Keeneland Sales for the Al Asayl Stables, owned by HH Sheikh Khalifa Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE.

Attractive Crown also produced Listed winner Basemah, bred by Haras de Gouffern and sold at the Deauville August Yearling Sales for EUR190 000.

Congratulations to Al Asayl Stables, Francis Graffard and Pierre-Charles Boudot!