Dream Ahead

Dream Ahead
Racing colours of Khalifa Dasmal
Sire	Diktat
Grandsire	Warning
Dam	Land of Dreams
Damsire	Cadeaux Genereux
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	20 February 2008
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Darley Stud
Owner	Khalifa Dasmal
Trainer	David Simcock
Record	9:6-0-0
Earnings	£810,186
Major wins
Prix Morny (2010) Middle Park Stakes (2010) July Cup (2011) Haydock Sprint Cup (2011) Prix de la Forêt (2011)
Awards
Top-rated two-year-old in Europe (2010) European Champion Sprinter (2011)

Dream Ahead (foaled 20 February 2008) is a retired thoroughbred racehorse, who was bred in Kentucky and based in England during a nine race career which lasted from July 2010 to October 2011. As a two-year-old he was officially rated the equal of Frankel after winning the Prix Morny and the Middle Park Stakes. As a three-year-old he was successfully campaigned at sprint distances, winning the July Cup at Newmarket and defeating Goldikova in the Prix de la Forêt. He was named Europe's Champion Sprinter at the 2011 Cartier Racing Awards.

Dream Ahead, a bay colt with a narrow white blaze and three white socks, was bred in Kentucky by the Darley Stud. He was sired by Diktat, a British sprinter from the Godolphin Arabian sire-line who won the Haydock Sprint Cup in 1999. Apart from Dream Ahead, his most notable offspring has been the Falmouth Stakes winner Rajeem. Dream Ahead's dam, Land of Dreams, was another successful British sprinter who won the Flying Childers Stakes in 1997 and the King George Stakes in 1998. Dream Ahead was offered for sale as a yearling at Keeneland in September 2009, and was bought for $11,000 by the bloodstock agent Federico Barberini. Dream Ahead was then acquired privately for Khalifa Dasmal by his racing manager Mark Crossman and was sent into training with David Simcock at Newmarket, Suffolk.

Dream Ahead made his first racecourse appearance at Nottingham in July 2010, in which he was ridden by William Buick, who would become his regular jockey. Running in a six furlong maiden race he took the lead a furlong from the finish and pulled clear despite hanging to the left in the closing stages and won by nine lengths. Five weeks later, Dream Ahead was moved into the highest class when he contested the Group One Prix Morny at Deauville. Starting at odds of 8/1 he took the lead inside the final furlong and won "comfortably", although he again drifted from a straight course towards the finish.