ACCLAMATION’S (Royal Applause) emergence as a valuable source of stallion sons might have been a little unexpected, but has endured.

Leading sire Dark Angel heads his roll of honour, a juvenile Group 1-winner whose potential the O’Callaghans identified when securing him for their Yeomanstown Stud at the end of that season. Since they added one of Acclamation’s grandsons to their roster. Supremacy was the best first-crop son of Mehmas, and along with Minzaal is one of four Group/Grade 1 winners by him.