Legacy of Modern Ideals Grows After Mawj's Victory
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Mawj after her victory in the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse
Modern Ideals looks to hold claims to being one of the finest broodmares of recent times as her daughter Mawj added to her growing legacy with a tough success in the May 7 One Thousand Guineas (G1) at Newmarket Racecourse.
The daughter of Darley's exceptional dual-hemisphere stalwart Exceed And Excel —for whom this was a first British Classic winner—is a Godolphin-bred through and through when it comes to her distaff line, too. She is the fifth foal out of Modern Ideals, a Darley-bred daughter of New Approach who did not set the world alight on the track but is very much making up for that in her paddocks career.
The first foal from Modern Ideals, who was beaten in two starts in France at 3 and 4 in the maroon silks of Sheikh Mohammed, was the placed Pivotal filly Cartesienne. She was provided with her first winner when Shamardal mare Feminism struck in a Dundalk maiden for Michael Halford in December 2020.
She subsequently sold to Jill Lamb and Newsells Park Stud for €370,000 at the 2021 Goffs November Sale, just days after her Dubawi half brother Modern Games 's success in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T).
Modern Games takes the 2022 Breeders' Cup Mile at Keeneland
Modern Games added further luster to his dam's record when adding the French Two Thousand Guineas (G1) and Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T) to his CV in 2022. The 4-year-old, who remains in training this year, will no doubt prove a fine addition to Darley's stallion ranks in the future.
Modern Ideals has produced three black-type winners. In addition to Classic scorers Modern Games and Mawj is the Shamardal gelding Modern News , a stakes scorer at Windsor last May for Charlie Appleby.
Mawj was an impressive debut winner at Newmarket last May and followed up a fine second to Meditate in the Albany Stakes (G3) with a gritty win in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes (G2) overLezoo , to whom she was then third in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) on her final outing at two.
Mawj won both her starts at Meydan earlier this year for Saeed bin Suroor, including an 8 1/2-length score in the Jumeirah Fillies Guineas.
Modern Ideals, a half sister to Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (G1) winner Ultra and fellow French group scorer Synopsis, has an unnamed 2-year-old filly by the late Mastercraftsman .