Main Aim (Oasis Dream – Orford Ness by Selkirk)
Top racehorse, and blue blooded young sire, Main Aim recently arrived at David Southey’s Southford Stud. David is impressed by the horse’s overall quality, saying of him, “He is a very handsome bay horse, standing 16 hands (and a bit!) with great presence, plenty of scope and good legs (short cannons). He has a super temperament and is a pleasure to handle, though very much a stallion.”
Maim Aim was a top-class racehorse, who achieved a Timeform Rating of 123 , which saw him rated above such high-class racehorses as G1 winners Varenar (Rock of Gibraltar), Art Connoissieur (Lucky Story), Fuisse (Green Tune), Alandi (Galileo), Duncan (Dalakhani) and Pressing (Soviet Star).
The horse won or placed in no fewer than nine stakes races, and won the G3 John O’Gaunt Stakes twice. Main Aim also ran second to Fleeting Spirit in Britain’s sprint championship – the historic G1 July Cup. In that race he defeated such champions as J J The Jet Plane, Takeover Target and Paco Boy.
His sire Oasis Dream is one of the finest sons of the great sire Green Desert at stud, and has sired a host of G1 winners, including the 2012 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Power. Other G1 winners sired by Oasis Dream include Breeders Cup winner Midday as well as the likes of Prohibit (King’s Stand Stakes), Arcano (Prix Morny), and Tuscan Evening (Gamely Handicap).
Main Aim’s dam, Orford Ness, is a G3 winner by leading sire and broodmare sire Selkirk (the latter is the broodmare sire of very promising young sire Mount Nelson). He is half-brother to three stakes performers, and hails from one of the best families in the stud book. This is the family of Mr Prospector and Seattle Slew – two of the greatest, and most influential sires, in North American history.
The sire is bred on the same Danzig/Sharpen Up cross that produced world leading sire, and promising sire of sires, Danehill Dancer.
