Just
days after siring his first Group I winner in Al Wukair, Aquis Farm shuttler
Dream Ahead (USA) was back in the stakes groove at Deauville with promising filly
Pursuing the Dream claiming Black Type success in the Listed Prix de la Vallee
d'Auge.
The Jamie Osborne trained two year-old had shown good ability in six previous
starts in the UK including a good sixth of 23 starters in the Group II Royal Ascot
Queen Mary Stakes.
She scored a determined neck win in the five furlong sprint beating colts and
geldings to break her maiden in style.
Pursuing the Dream was a 30,000 euro purchase from the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale
and is the best of three winners from Dubawi mare Crimson Lass, a half-sister
to stakes-winners Foodbroker Fancy and Femme Fatale.
Pursuing the Dream is the 11th stakes-winner for Dream Ahead, who
was Australia's leading second crop sire last season by stakes-winners with
four to his credit.
An outcross sire, completely free of Danehill blood, Dream Ahead stands this
spring at Aquis Farm in the Hunter Valley at a fee of $19,800.