Isaac Shelby Sold to Qatar's Wathnan Racing

Last month's Greenham Stakes (G3) winner Isaac Shelby  will now sport the colors of Wathnan Racing after selling to the Qatari-based operation in a deal brokered by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock.

Also the winner of the Superlative Stakes (G2) last year, the son of Night of Thunder  has carried the famous Sangster silks to three successes from only four starts. A live chance for this Sunday's Poule d'Essai des Poulains (G1) at Longchamp, the colt will remain with trainer Brian Meehan. 

The Elaine Chivers-bred Isaac Shelby will be the first Thoroughbred to carry the Wathnan Racing colors in Europe. The operation was the leading racing stable in Qatar in the 2022-23 season and was active at the autumn horses-in-training sales in Britain and France last year.

Brown said on May 10: "Isaac Shelby is a very exciting colt. He has displayed a very high level of ability, with the obvious highlight being his comfortable win in the Greenham at Newbury last time. 

"He's a lovely-looking individual with plenty of scope and class—he displays the best attributes of his sire."

Isaac Shelby, one of 19 individual group winners for Darley's Night of Thunder, had sold to Sam Sangster for £92,000 (US$126,254) from Park Wood Stud at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale in 2021. 

He is out of the unraced Heliostatic  mare Kentucky Belle , a half sister to American grade 2 winner Ramazutti .