City of Light’s ‘Mimi’ crowned queen at Emirates Oak

was last listed as the winner of the UAE 1000 Guineas, MIMI KAKUSHI (Ceremonial Moments of Light in the City, directed by Vicar) Throwing in a game that’s exhausting California shippers Ami please (Goldencents) and won the G3 Emirates Oaks at Meydan on Friday by 1 1/4. She is the eighth filly to complete the Guineas/Oaks double, and the first since subsequent American class champion Shahama (Munnings) was trained by Salem bin Ghadayer in 2022.

Ami Please crosses and leads into the clubhouse turn for Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Gulf from second start catching up.competitors Asaville (Nyquist), who finished fourth in the Emirates 1000 Guineas, had some collisions with Mimi Kakushi on the back extension while chasing the pacesetter. By the far turn it was a threesome with Mimi Kakushi sandwiched between enemies, but pilot Mickael Barzalona didn’t panic in the tight quarters and things began to ease as Asawer faded out of the bend.

Mimi Kakushi battled Ami Please on quarter pole and the two were fighting it out until halfway through the race. At 150 meters, Mimi Kakushi was slightly ahead of Ami Please and eventually cleared the wire for about a distance in favor of the filly. Asawer finished third, four behind.

In the first two local attempts in November and December, Woodford Thoroughbreds-bred graduated two lengths past Asawer in the Emirates 1000 Guineas Trial on 23 December. She increased her winning margin to 4 1/2 lengths in the listed UAE 1000 January 20 Guinea.

“She’s a very elegant filly and she will do everything we ask of her,” Barzalona said. “Long distance travel is in her favor. [Ami Please] Much faster than us and my filly was happy to sit in the back. In the end I felt like I had a lot on hand. “

Bin Ghadayer added: “She’s my favorite filly and she improved again tonight,” he said. “Honestly, I think the match will be easier than Guineas because she won’t be under pressure all the way.

“She was a professional mare from the start, especially in her mind, and she was easy to train. She knew she had to give everything in the race.”

“this [G2] UAE derby and [GI] Kentucky Oaks is definitely on her agenda, but we need to work with [owner] Sheikh Hamdan [bin Mohammed Al Maktoum.]”

Pedigree Annotation

Mimi Kakushi is the first division/team winner and one of four overall winners for her father who won the Breeders’ Cup at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky. The oldest foal in the City of Light just turned three. Wild Again stallion Vicar, 1999 GI Fountain Of Youth S. and GI Florida Derby Champion, has 15 stakes winners as a breeding mare, Mimi Kakushi joins Vicar’s In Trouble (Mischief) and Sandbar (War Pass) as Grading/Group Winners.

$180,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Select Yearling Becomes $250,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Junior (breeze video)Mimi Kakushi is the half-sister of three-time tournament winner Moment Is Right (gold medal), and compliments for winning the bet (congratulations). Her mother won Bed o’ Roses H. and Distaff H. in the Aqueduct Grade 2 and she has a yearling filly from Cajun Breeze. Her offspring of 2023 Khozan was born dead.

Friday, Meydan, Dubai
UAE OAKS-G3$150,000, Meydan, 2-17, 3yo, f, 9 1/2f, 2:00.01, fs.
1-MIMI KAKUSHI, 126, f, 3, City of Lights
First Dam: Rite Moment (MGSW-US, $399,303) by Vicar
The Second Dam: Hours of Joy, by Lost Code
The Third Dam: Brave Sweetheart, by Danzig
first group wins. ($180,000 Ylg ’21 FTKJUL; $250,000 2yo ’22
May). Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad Al Maktoum;
B – Woodford Thoroughbred LLC (Kentucky); T – Salem bin Ghadayer;
J-Michael Bazarona. $90,000. Lifetime record: 5-3-0-0,
$213,073. Werk Nick Rating: B+.Click to get
eNicks report and 5 hybrid bloodlines. Click to get
Free Equineline.com Directory Genealogy.
2-Ami please126, f, 3, Goldencents–Bellezza Rosso, by: carpet.
First group of black types.OW C Racing & Wonderland Racing;
B-Glenn Sorgenstein (Kentucky); T-Doug O’Neal. $30,000.
3–Asaville126, female, 3, Nyquist– how my heart works, not for
like. The first black type; the first group of black types. ($200,000)
’21 Financial Times; $450,000 2yo ’22 FTIMAY). O-Al Rashid Stables
LLC; B-Bowman & Higgins Stable (MD); T-Doug Watson
$15,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, 3 3/4, NK.
The ranking also includes: Priyanka Chopra, Awasev, Solar (France), Habuba. Click to get video.

⭐️ Mimi Kakushi – Salem bin Ghadayer & @mickaelbarzalon

🏆 Emirates Oak
🏆 UAE 1000 Guineas

She did well on Meydan, completing the Oaks-Guineas double#DWCC Carnival | #DWC23 | #racingdubai pic.twitter.com/r2Zz6qqzyJ

— Dubai Racing Club (@RacingDubai) February 17, 2023