Local fans well remember popular stars like Hawwaam, Soft Falling Rain, Rafeef, Soqrat, Malmoos and many more carrying those colours to notable triumphs on local tracks and in Dubai - for Shadwell owner Sheikh Hamdan and master trainer Mike de Kock.
The sheikh - a towering figure in global racing outside his brother Sheikh Maktoum's Godolphin behemoth - died in 2018 and his thoroughbred interests were downsized.
No longer a major presence in SA, Shadwell nonetheless rolls on in the UK, under Hamdan's daughter Sheikha Hissa and famous racing manager Angus Gold.
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