NEWS
Lahudood to Lane’s End stallion Kingmambo
Posted: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:09 PM
by Frank Angst
Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) winner Lahudood (GB) is booked to be bred to Lane’s End stallion Kingmambo in 2008.
Shadwell Farm retired Lahudood after she closed out ‘07 with victories in the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park and the Filly and Mare Turf at Monmouth Park. With those wins, Lahudood is a finalist for an Eclipse Award as champion turf female.
After her Breeders’ Cup victory, Lahudood was shipped to Shadwell Farm in Lexington. Shadwell Farm General Manager Rick Nichols said the five-year-old Singspiel (Ire) mare will be bred to Kingmambo and she could stay in Kentucky.
“We hope she stays here and that looks like the plan,” Nichols said. “Still, there is always some chance that she could go back to Europe if there is a stallion with an attractive cross for her.”
Lahudood is the first homebred for Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Shadwell Farm to win a Breeders’ Cup World Championships race. She is out of the Arazi mare Rahayeb (GB).
Kingmambo stands for $250,000 at Lane’s End.
Frank Angst is senior writer for Thoroughbred Times
