Qirat (GB)

Qirat got off the mark on only the second start of his two-year-old season, breaking his maiden in a nine-runner novice race at Kempton. He was gelded at the end of his juvenile year.

His first win as a three-year-old came in a handicap race at Goodwood in May 2024 over seven furlongs, a feat he repeated at the same track in August that same year. His climb up the ratings saw him entered for his first stakes race, the Listed Robin Hood Stakes at Nottingham where he placed second to earn his first blacktype.

He returned to Goodwood in August 2025 to run in the Gr.1 Sussex Stakes alongside fellow Juddmonte runner, dual Gr.1 winner Field Of Gold. He took up the running under jockey Richard Kingscote before Serengeti took the lead after three furlongs. The pair continued in that order into the home straight with the remainder of the field detached. A furlong from home he took the lead back from Serengeti and kept producing to hit the line a neck in front of fast-finishing Rosallion who had emerged from the pack to bridge the gap to the pacesetters.

At a starting rpice of 150-1, Qirat became the biggest-priced winner of a Group 1 in Britain and Ireland in the modern era.

Qirat returned to winning ways in the seven furlong Gr.3 Criterion Stakes at York when making most of the running to score for trainer Ralph Beckett in June 2026. In similar fashion to his victory in the Gr.1 Sussex Stakes in 2025, Qirat upped the tempo over two furlongs from home and, despite facing a strong challenge from Never So Brave inside the final furlong, responded well for pressure to assert in the closing stages to win by a length and a half.

He produced another scintillating front-running display to win the Gr.2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein for owner-breeder Juddmonte Farms. Quickly away out of the gates to lead in the hands of Silvestre de Sousa, he travelled at the head affairs. Passing the 200-metre marker, Qirat had never seen another rival and forged even further to clear to score by two and a half lengths.

Qirat, a half-brother to Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Bluestocking,  is the second Group 1 winner produced by Gr.1 Matron Stakes winner Emulous (Dansili). Emulous is herself a full sister to Daring Diva, the grandam of Gr.1 Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun.