Dual Identity (IRE)

Dual Identity is a three time winner and this term has been his best. 1m2f is ideal trip on a flat, sound surface but he has the speed to run very well over a mile. He is currently rated 95, a career high and a climb of twenty pounds since the start of 2022, a year in which he truly came of age. He finished out of the first three only once in nine starts last season, many of these results coming in high-class handicaps including a thrilling third in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket.

Dual Identity is an attractive gelding who hails from the first crop of the Champion two-year-old and Dewhurst (Group 1) winner Belardo, who went on to win the Lockinge (Group 1) aged four. Belardo is very much bred to be a top class stallion. A son of the leading sire Lope De Vega, he actually achieved a higher Timeform rating on the track than his own father. His dam, Danaskaya, was herself a very fast and precocious two-year-old who earned the accolade of being crowned Champion two-year-old filly in Ireland.

The dam, Teide Lady, is a winning daughter of  Sheikh Hamdan’s outstanding Derby winner Nashwan who has already produced the Group 3 winning two-year-old Ayaar at stud to date. She, herself, is a half- sister to the Superlative Stakes (Group 2) winner Hatta Fort as well as a very recent Group 3 winner in the shape of Brian Meehan’s Spirit Of Appin.

We bought this gelding at the Tattersalls Book 1 Yearling Sale. William Knight loved him at the sales and trains him from his  base in Newmarket.