Wild Dahlia
- Sire: Ardad Dam: Ejtyah
Wild Dahlia is a three-year-old bay filly in training with William Haggas. She was bought at Goffs Breeze-Up Sale at Doncaster for £65,000 by renowned racing investor Patrick Veitch.
She got off the mark over a mile at Chelmsford on just her third start as a juvenile, showing a seriously impressive turn of foot and collecting a £40,000 GBB prize in the process. After a late start to this season, she’s shown enough to suggest that she can add her winning tally.
- Trainer William Haggas
- Location Newmarket, Suffolk
- Purchased Goffs Breeze-Up Sale
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Pedigree
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Wild Dahlia |
Ardad |
Kodiac |
Danehill |
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Rafha |
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Good Clodora |
Red Clubs |
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Geht Schnell |
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Ejtyah |
Frankel |
Galileo |
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Kind |
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Darysina |
Smart Strike |
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Daryaba |
Race record
| Result | Trainer | Jockey | Race Course | Race Date | Race Replay |
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| Flutter Proudly Supporting Pancreatic Cancer UK EBF Fillies' Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB/GBBPlus) (Class 4) (2yo) 1m | |||||
| 1st | William Haggas | Cieren Fallon | Chelmsford | 02 Oct 25 | Watch replay |
| Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Nursery Handicap | |||||
| 2nd | William Haggas | Tom Marquand | Kempton | 22 Oct 25 | Watch replay |
| Straight Mile Apprentice Fillies' Handicap (1m) | |||||
| 3rd | William Haggas | Harry Burns | Redcar | 29 Jul 26 | Watch replay |
| Jenningsbet Fillies' Novice Stakes (Gbb Race) (Class 4) (2yo) 7f | |||||
| 3rd | William Haggas | Cieren Fallon | Newmarket | 22 Aug 25 | - |
| Business Pilot Handicap (1m) | |||||
| 4th | William Haggas | Cieren Fallon | Epsom | 10 Sept 26 | - |
| British Stallion Studs EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes (7f) | |||||
| 4th | William Haggas | Cieren Fallon | Chester | 13 Sept 25 | Watch replay |
| Huws Gray British Stallions EBF Fillies' Handicap (1m) | |||||
| 6th | William Haggas | Cieren Fallon | Hamilton | 21 Aug 26 | Watch replay |
News stories
After her last gasp victory at Chelmsford last time out where she shed her maiden tag, we are very excited to see how Wild Dahlia gets on tonight on her nursery debut in the 6:10 at Kempton.
Following the overnight defection of one of the favourites, she takes on four rivals for her second all-weather start. This track should suit her running style better than Chelmsford, where the short straight almost caught her out. Kempton has a wider and longer home straight, so there is a lot more time for horses to gather their stride and start motoring.
Cieren Fallon landed his 100th winner of the season aboard this filly last time - and rode her on her two previous starts - but Tom Marquand (who has first call on William’s horses) takes over tonight.
All four of her rivals have claims on paper, so it won’t be easy, but we are very hopeful of a big run.
Wild Dahlia produced a tremendous turn of foot to land her first victory yesterday at Chelmsford on only her third racecourse appearance.
Our two-year-old Ardad filly was bought from the breeze-ups at Doncaster in April and made her debut in a hot maiden at Newmarket in August, producing a very encouraging effort to finish third. Her next start came at Chester, where she broke slowly from the stalls and, at a track that favours being handy and in a good position, she was unable to get involved at the finish. She did stay on well on that occasion from well back, however, so it was still a decent performance in the circumstances. The winner broke the two-year-old track record, so it was a quality race.
We were very hopeful when she was declared to run at Chelmsford that she would break from the stalls on terms and land her first victory. She didn’t tick both of those boxes, as again she was slowly away; her jockey Cieren Fallon was forced to sit at the back of the field off a very slow pace. Thankfully, once she found daylight in the short straight, she was able to pick up with an impressive turn of foot and got up in the dying strides. It was one of those occasions where, mid-race, you think the writing is on the wall, so to defy all of that to win was very promising indeed.
She looks an exciting filly for the future and we can’t wait to see where she heads next.
The plan
Wild Dahlia is in training with William Haggas.
Trainer: William Haggas
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