Wahid

Wahid (foaled 7 November 2002) is a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the New Zealand Derby in 2006. Biography Wahid, the son of Almutawakel, had a debut win at Trentham (covering the 1000m in 57.27 seconds), and was rarely out of the limelight for the remainder of his two-year-old season. With wins in the Wakefield Challenge Stakes and New Zealand Bloodstock Classique and Group 1 placings in both the Diamond Stakes and Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes he was rated among the very best of his generation at age two and was labelled a Derby contender. He began his three-year-old season quietly while Darci Brahma dominated the main spring races, running in lower-quality company before beating the year's best filly in Shikoba in the Group 1 Levin Classic. After a short break over the summer months, he started his Derby campaign at Woodville before heading straight back into stakes company. He won the Wellington Stakes but had the race taken away from him for interference caused to the third horse Abbey Drive, but then had a winning sequence in Group races of three, culminating with the Derby win in March.