THE death last December of Coolmore’s Champs Elysees (Danehill) robbed the stallion ranks here of a successful flat stallion who had just enjoyed a great season, his daughter Billesdon Brook winning the Group 1 1000 Guineas, his son Harlem taking the Group 1 Australian Cup, Wonder Of Lips being placed in the Group 1 Herman Oaks, and Colonia winning at Grade 2 level in the USA.

Also in America, his daughter Elysea’s World transformed herself from being a €25,000 Arqana yearling purchase into a $500,000 sale at Keeneland last November, thanks to three Grade 3 victories in 2018. Now she has added a fourth, thanks to her win last weekend at Santa Anita in the Santa Ana Stakes, beating the Irish-bred Zaffinah (Casamento) in the process. It is surely a matter of time before she steps up to a Grade 2 success. The now six-year-old has won some £420,000.

A full-sister to six-time winner Ideal Horse (Champs Elysees), Elysea’s World is one of four winners for the unraced Singspiel (In The Wings) mare Ideal World who was bought for only €11,000 as a just-turned three-year-old at Goffs. Her dam Live Your Dreams (Mt Livermore) won a listed stakes race at Del Mar and was runner-up in a Grade 2 at Hollywood Park. She bred seven winners and was a half-sister to the French Group 3 winner Deep Sleep (Rahy).

In the fourth remove of the pedigree of Elysea’s World you find the best runner in the family. This was the dual champion sprinter Housebuster (Mt Livermore) and his 15 victories were headed by the Grade 1 Vosburgh Stakes, Grade 1 Carter Handicap and the Grade 1 Jerome Handicap.

Champs Elysees is an own-brother to Dansili, mentioned elsewhere on this page as the sire of Zambezi Sun. Group 1-placed in Europe before crossing the Atlantic, when Champs Elysees returned to join the team at Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket he did so as a triple Grade 1 star. He is a son of the listed scorer and phenomenal broodmare Hasili (by Kahyasi) and so is a sibling of the Group/Grade 1 winners Banks Hill (by Danehill), Cacique (by Danehill), Heat Haze (by Green Desert) and Intercontinental (by Danehill). Hasili is one of only two mares to ever produce five Group or Grade 1 winners.