Huge Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes win for Aga Khan homebred Tahiyra (Siyouni)

IT WAS massively impressive performance from the Aga Khan Stud homebred Tahiyra, the Siyouni half-sister to champion and three-time top level winner Tarnawa, in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud on just her second racecourse start.  She won on her debut at Galway and today became her sire’s seventh Group 1 winner.

Jockey Chris Hayes said to Sally-Ann Grassick at The Curragh: “The first thing I said to the boss when I got off her at Galway  was she is one for the Moyglare. He just said, ‘Easy, easy, relax, there is plenty of time to go yet!’

“But she has always shown plenty at home, and she is a filly you could send her down with a lead horse and she will stay besides it, you could send her down with one rated 80 or 90 and she’d stay beside that. She bucked and squealed going down, she really enjoyed it and she moved well on the ground. She is exciting. She is bred to be good and thankfully she is.”

When asked to compare the two half-sisters, he said: “At the moment she is better than her sister – she has won her maiden at two and is a Group 1 winner. I am very grateful for connections.

“The boss said to me this week, ‘You are confident that she will run a good race?’ I said:’Yes’, but went home and thought ‘Oh god, I hope I am right!'”

It was confirmed on TV that the filly will not run again this season.

Tarana (Shamardal) had a colt by Frankel in 2021, a filly by Lope De Vega this year and was covered by Dubawi.