Still going strong at the age of 22, Acclamation is a Group 1-placed, Group 2-winning sprinter who got his first blacktype success at the age of four, but not only has the son of juvenile star Royal Applause (Waajib) become a prolific source of two-year-old and sprint talent, but he has developed a well-earned profile as a sire of stallions.

Dark Angel has seven top-level winners among almost 70 stakes winners and a growing number of sons at stud. Equiano, whose son Equilateral won a Group 2 at Meydan this month, has the English Group 1 star The Tin Man and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup heroine Belvoir Bay on his roll of honour.

The late Harbour Watch had Baron Samedi and the classic-placed Group 2 scorer Pyledriver to represent him last season, Mehmas set a new record for the number of freshman winners in a season highlighted by Group 1 victory for Supremacy, and seven-furlong Group 1 winner Aclaim, whose yearlings made up to 145,000gns, is likely to take high rank in this year’s freshman sires’ championship title race.

Meanwhile, Expert Eye will probably light up the yearling sales scene in the autumn; he had a €180,000 filly foal in Goffs in December. Watch for him to make an impact as a freshman sire of 2022 and a potential classic sire beyond then.

Expert Eye had the subsequent Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner Barraquero behind when making a successful debut at Newbury in June 2017 and followed that with a four-and-a-half-length success in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood.

He chased home James Garfield in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes first time out at three, easily won the Group 3 Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot, was runner-up to Lightning Spear in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes, and beat Gordon Lord Byron comfortably in the Group 3 City of York Stakes before making two trips abroad.

Lightning Spear and Without Parole were among those behind when Expert Eye finished third to Recoletos and Wind Chimes in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, beaten by a head and one and a quarter lengths despite encountering traffic problems in the race.

Then he won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile by a comfortable half-length at Churchill Downs from a field that included the European Group 1 scorers Clemmie, Happily, Lightning Spear and One Master.

Expert Eye, Timeform-rated 117p at two and 124 at three, is out of Exemplify (Dansili), a winning half-sister to the dual mile classic winner Special Duty (Hennessy). His grandam is an unraced full-sister to the prolific US Grade 1 star Sightseek (Distant View) and half-sister to the dual Grade 1 winner Tates Creek (Rahy).

That’s four top-level winners in the first three generations of the pedigree and there are many more to be found the further back you delve into it.

EXPERT EYE (GB), Bay 2015. Jt 4th top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2017. Won five races, £1,369,751, from 6½ furlongs to 1 mile, at 2 and 3 years including, Breeders’ Cup Mile, Churchill Downs, Gr.1, Qatar Vintage Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, Jersey Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Sky Bet City of York Stakes, York, Gr.3, also placed second in Qatar Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, Al Basti World Greatwood Greenham Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, and third in Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1.

Retired to Stud in 2019, first crop now yearlings.

Stands at: Banstead Manor Stud, Cheveley, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9RD, England.

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