Haafhd retired to stud
Haafhd, winner of the 2000 Guineas and Champion Stakes this season, has been retired to stud.
The three-year-old son of Alhaarth notched five wins from nine starts for trainer Barry Hills and owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum.
Haafhd won the Listed Washington Singer Stakes as a juvenile before taking the Craven Stakes on the way to his success in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket last May.
Although he failed to make the frame in the St James’s Palace Stakes or the Sussex Stakes, Haafhd bounced right back to form with a convincing win in the Champion Stakes back at Newmarket last Saturday.
Haafhd beat Chorist by two and a half lengths there and Hills had been hoping he would stay in training as a four-year-old.
However, Sheikh Hamdan has elected to retire the colt, who is out of Classic-winning mare Al Bahathri, in time for the 2005 breeding season and Shadwell Stud will announce his fee shortly.
