Diktat (GB) (Warning {GB}–Arvola {GB}, by Sadler's Wells), best known as the sire of Dream Ahead, joint-champion 2-year-old with Frankel in 2010, has been pensioned in Spain at age 20 due to declining fertility, according to Racing Post. Campaigned as a homebred by Sheikh Mohammed and trained by Saeed bin Suroor, Diktat won Royal Ascot's G3 Jersey S. in 1998 and went on to add the following year's G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and G1 Sprint Cup. Dream Ahead, his best son, inherited his sire's propensity for sprinting, winning the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park S. as a juvenile and adding the G1 Darley July Cup, G1 Sprint Cup and G1 Prix de la Foret the following year. Dream Ahead made a promising start with his first 2-year-olds this year, that crop including group winners Donjuan Triumphant (Ire) and Final Frontier (Ire).
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