Despite having turned 21 this year, champion sprinter Oasis Dream continues to make his mark in major races around the world, featuring as a sire, sire of sires and broodmare sire of a number of notable black type winners recently.
Oasis Dream’s current crop of two-year-olds include impressive Gr2 Superlative Stakes winner Native Trail as well as the luckless filly Desert Dreamer, runner up in all of the Gr2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes, Gr3 Princess Margaret Keeneland Stakes and Listed Maureen Brittain Memorial Empress Fillies’ Stakes.
Oasis Dream – source of Gr1 speed
Oasis Dream is also the sire of the talented four-year-old Grocer Jack, who finished second in the recent Gr1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis-Bayerisches Zuchtrennen.
At the time of writing, the triple Gr1 winning Oasis Dream had supplied more than 120 stakes winners, headed by 17 Gr1 winners.
Oasis Dream’s maternal grandson, and last year’s Gr1 Lexus Melbourne Cup winner, Twilight Payment (Teofilo) made a welcome return to winning ways when he won Friday’s Gr3 Comer Group International Irish St Leger Trial Stakes at the Curragh.
Out of the Oasis Dream mare Dream On Buddy, the eight year old will bid to defend his Melbourne Cup title later in the year.
Oasis Dream has also made his presence felt as a broodmare sire in South Africa- his Gr2 winning daughter Welwitschia is the dam of this season’s hugely exciting three-year-old Desert Miracle (Dynasty).
Impressive Dessert Miracle (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
The latter, a half-sister to Gr1 World Sports Betting Gauteng Summer Cup third Tree Tumbo (Silvano), won two of her four starts last season, running out a near eight length winner of the G2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper in the process.
Oasis Dream, whose close relative Kingman is responsible for Sunday’s Gr1 Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le Buffard Jacques le Marois winner Palace Pier, has also had notable success as a sire of sires this year.
His Irish 2000 Guineas winning son Power has supplied a pair of Gr1 winners thus far, in the form of Helvic Dream (Tattersalls Gold Cup) and Laws Of Indices (Prix Jean Prat), while his Gimcrack Stakes winning son Showcasing is responsible for recent Gr1 Prix Maurice de Gheest runner up Tropbeau, Gr2 Richmond Stakes winner Asymmetric, and the useful two-year-old Project Dante.
Showcasing is well established as a high-class sire, and also ranks as the sire of Gr1 winners Advertise, Mohaather, and Quiet Reflection, with his tally of black winners currently standing at over 50.
Querari – top 2yo sire in 2018/19
Oasis Dream’s South African based Gr1 winning son Querari enjoyed notable success during the recently concluded 2020-2021 season.
South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2YO’s in 2018-2019, Querari was responsible for six black type winners last season, headed by Gr1 4Racing Computaform Sprint hero Rio Querari, and fellow graded stakes winners Caya Coco and Maryah.
