Any son of super star stallion Dubawi has to be looked at closely. Statistically, Dubawi is the most successful sire to ever stand in Great Britain, with 269 stakes-winners, 177 at Group level. What turned our head at Woodside was Benbatl’s physical. He looks very much like his sire; 15.3 hands, muscular, a deep girth, and the list goes on.

Now standing his second season at Woodside in 2024, Shalaa has already proven himself as a sire on the rise across his seven seasons at stud across both hemispheres, producing 16 individual stakes winners including six black-type two-year-olds, much in the mould of himself.