'Dubawi' (foaled 7 February 2002) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. Dubawi is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud. He was one of the only crop of foals sired by Dubai Millennium, an outstanding racehorse. His dam, Zomaradah was a top class racemare who won the Oaks d'Italia, E. P. Taylor Stakes, Premio Lydia Tesio and the Royal Whip Stakes.[2] As a descendant of the broodmare Sunbittern, Zomaradah, who also produced the Lancashire Oaks winner Emirates Queen, was closely related to In the Wings, High-Rise and Virginia Waters.[3] The colt raced in the blue colours of Godolphin and was trained by Saeed bin Suroor. He was ridden in all but one of his races by Frankie Dettori.

About Print: Series: Studio Portraits, 'Dubawi', 2009 by John Reardon Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Paper, Unframed Print - Paper size: 45.5 x 45.5 cm/ 18 x 18 inches, Image: 38.5 x 38.5cm / 15 x 15 in

This piece is part of: "(after) Whistlejacket - Contemporary Equine Photographs by John Reardon", An exhibition at MMX Gallery, London, June/July, 2023. The show explores an artistic way of photographing horses. "Racehorses, and the people in their realm, turned out to be his ideal subjects. Reardon's eye found the elegance, power, and plaintive vulnerability of whatever settled before his camera, and the thoroughbred is abound with elegance, power and vulnerability."