THERE was a time, around the turn of the century, when it looked as though Sadler’s Wells’s impact in Europe would remain mostly in the hands of his daughters. In The Wings’ branch had limited potential to last, and El Prado’s line was gaining strength in the US, but the last hope in Europe lay in two recently retired sons: Galileo and Montjeu. As the expression goes, he saved the best wine until last.

Galileo is arguably a better sire than his great father, and with Frankel, New Approach and Teofilo among his early sons at stud, in addition to outstanding results for his daughters, his legacy looks set to endure.

Montjeu died in his teens but was a top international sire of Derby-type horses. His sons Authorized and Motivator are well-established as Group 1 sires and Pour Moi got a Derby winner.

Dual Derby hero Camelot came within three-parts of a length of becoming the first Triple Crown winner since Nijinsky, and he has made an exciting start to his stallion career. His oldest offspring are now four, his first two crops have yielded 13 stakes winners so far, and he is the sire of three top-level scorers.

First, Latrobe won the Group 1 Irish Derby. He has since been runner-up in the Group 1 Irish St Leger and Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes. Athena was next and landed the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational just days after finishing third in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes.

Grade 1-placed pattern winner Hunting Horn also comes from that first crop, as do Group 2 scorer Fighting Irish, Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner Pollara, and Group 3 Premio Parioli (Italian 2000 Guineas) victor Wait Forever. Alounak is another of note, but that German-trained colt, who ran away with an 11-furlong listed contest at Dusseldorf a month before chasing home Study Of Man in the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe, met with a setback and was not seen out again after early May.

Wonderment and Arthur Kitt head Camelot’s second crop. The first-named won the 10-furlong Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud in late October, almost four weeks after finishing a one-and-a-half-length third to subsequent Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf star Line Of Duty in a Group 3 contest at Chantilly. Arthur Kitt won the Listed Chesham Stakes, chased home Too Darn Hot in the Group 3 Solario Stakes, and was fourth in Line Of Duty’s race at Churchill Downs.

It is just a matter of time before the identity of Camelot’s next Group 1 winner is known.

CAMELOT (GB). Champion 2yr old colt in England & Ireland in 2011. Champion 3yr old colt in Europe in 2012. Won six races, £1,926,569, from 1 mile to 1½ miles, 2 to 4 years including, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, Curragh, Gr.1, Investec Derby Stakes, Epsom Downs, Gr.1, Qipco 2000 Guineas Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Racing Post Trophy, Doncaster, Gr.1, High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, also placed second in Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.1, Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh, Gr.1.

Retired to Stud in 2014, and sire of the winners of over 165 races, and over £5,125,047, including ATHENA, LATROBE, WONDERMENT, FIGHTING IRISH, HUNTING HORN, POLLARA, WAIT FOREVER, SIR EREC, ALOUNAK, ARTHUR KITT, KING OF LEOGRANCE, NATURALLY HIGH, STELLA DI CAMELOT, Alhadab, Amazing Lips, Swords Drawn, King Of Camelot, Whirling Dervish, Furrion, Lady Of Shalott and Lucius Tiberius.

Stands at:: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co Tipperary, Ireland.

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