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Redoute's Choice mare Enbihaar added to the international success Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell Stud has enjoyed with progeny by the champion Australian sire when she won the G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock Park on Saturday.
.It all started with the Shadwell Stud's 2005 purchase of G1 Blue Diamond winner Nadeem. He has been followed by major winners Majmu, Mustaaqeem and Rafeef in South Africa and El Daana and Shaaheq among others in Australia.
The statuesque Irish-bred mare ENBIHAAR recorded her third win from six starts, her second stakes win and first Group victory in the Lancashire Oaks.
She became Redoute's Choice's 166th stakeswinner at Goodwood in May and is the eighth Lancashire Oaks win for her trainer John Gosden.
Bred by Charles-Henri de Moussac's Haras du Mezeray, Enbihaar is the fourth foal of Chanterelle (Trempelino), a half-sister to French G1 winner Amonita from a branch of the family that produced Secretariat.
Redoute's Choice second and final French-conceived crop includes DANCETERIA , who produced a slashing run for fourth in Enable's G1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday.
Co-owners at Australian Bloodstock who plan a Cox Plate campaign for him.
Enbihaar and Danceteria are among the 13 stakeswinners from 129 Northern Hemisphere-born runners by Redoute's Choice.
They include Japanese G3 winner Fluky, Japanese Listed winner Clianthus and European stakeswinners Shaqira and Tazahum, all conceived in Australia between 2007 and 2009.
In the season of his death, Redoute's Choice has posted 11 winners of 22 Group and Listed Races worldwide.
They are led by four time G1 winner The Autumn Sun and his 34th G1 winner Galaxy Star.
Redoute's Choice will again finish among the top 10 sires on the main Australian Premiership, is among the top five on the 3YO Sires' list and is poised to claim his first Broodmare Sires' title.
The Autumn Sun has joined Snitzel, Not A Single Doubt, Scissor Kick and Pariah to complete a quintet of Redoute's Choice sons standing at Arrowfield Stud.
