Immensitude

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This column is highlighted by the victory of Silawi at Woodbine. Dubawi Gelding Claims The Canadian International Wathnan Racing's Silawi (Dubawi) earned his first top-tier win in the Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine on October 4 (video). Bred by Wertheimer and Frere, he is trained by Hamad Al Jehani. Sold for €380,000 out of the Arqana Arc Sale in 2023, the five-year-old gelding is also a winner of the G3 Winter Hill...

With a sweeping move around the final of three turns in the 1 1/2-mile closing-day feature, Forever After All (Connect), currently in foal to Flightline, took over from a pair of embattled pacesetters and romped home by daylight in the GIII Bewitch Stakes at Keeneland. Facing a scratched-down field over a course listed as yielding, the 9-5 favorite, a last-out fifth in the GIII The Very One Stakes at Gulfstream Mar. 1, let two rivals to her inside show the way for much of the running before making a confident,...

La Mehana (Fr) (Al Wukair {Ire}) made a shrewd move up the rail in the final furlong and earned the first graded/group stakes win of her career in the GIII Waya at the Big A on Friday. Prior to going for €400,000 last December at the Arqana Mixed Sale, La Mehana began her career as a late juvenile in France under the care of Henri-Alex Pantall where after a second-place debut she made the switch to the yard of Jean-Claude Rouget. Over the course of the next two years, the...