KILDANGAN Stud flagbearer Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway) is gone but he has a number of sons at stud.

Lope De Vega, like him a dual classic star in France, is well-established as a leading international sire, which augurs well for the younger ones coming up behind. Captain Sonador hit the Group 1 target at stud but died young, Casamento has sired winners at all levels, whereas Amaron, Mukhadram, Puissance De Lune and Shakespearean are blacktype sires.

Dariyan and Bow Creek got off the mark as freshmen in 2020, Blue Point covered 198 mares in his maiden season, and Earthlight, Pinatubo and Shaman are new for 2021. A Wertheimer homebred trained by Carlos Laffon-Parias, Shaman was a pattern-placed seven-furlong winner at two, a leading miler at three, and notable over 10-furlongs at four.

Shaman kicked off his classic year with listed success over a mile at Saint-Cloud, followed that with Group 3 victory over nine furlongs at ParisLongchamp, and chased home Persian King in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains-French 2000 Guineas, beaten a length by a colt who would go on to become an Arc-placed mile star. Three months later he took on another classic ace, this time Irish 2000 Guineas winner Romanised, and while chasing that colt home in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville had prior Group 1 winners Line Of Duty, Watch Me and Study Of Man behind.

Stepped up to 10 furlongs in 2020, Shaman beat the subsequent Group 1 scorer Way To Paris by three-quarters of a length in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt. Sottsass, a rusty fourth there, bounced back to take the Group 1 Prix Ganay, with Shaman finding that extra half furlong testing, dropping back to third having tried to make all.

Shaman’s fee of €6,000 looks attractive, especially when compared to those of Blue Point (€40,000), Earthlight (€20,000) and Lope De Vega (€125,000). He is the better of two stakes winners out of the dual blacktype scorer Only Green (Green Desert), whereas his dam’s star sibling is the Group 1 Prix de la Foret and Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest heroine Occupandiste (Kaldoun).

The latter’s Group 1-winning son Mondialiste (Galileo) is a freshman sire, his classic-placed, Group 2-winning half-sister Impressionnante (Danehill) is the dam of the classic winner and Group 1 sire Intello (Galileo), whereas Group 1 stars Elnadim (Danzig; blacktype sire), Mehthaaf (Nureyev), and Ribchester (Iffraaj; first yearlings made up to 350,000gns in 2020) appear under the third generation of the pedigree.

This is a branch of the stallion-producing family of Bianconi (Danzig), Charnwood Forest (Warning), Dubai Millennium (Seeking The Gold), Fort Wood (Sadler’s Wells), and Timber Country (Woodman) – all of whom sired at least one Group 1 winner.

SHAMAN (IRE), Chesnut 2016. Won five races, £555,004, from 7 furlongs to 1 mile 2 furlongs, 2 to 4 years including, Prix d’Harcourt, Longchamp, Gr.2, Prix La Force, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, Prix Omnium II, Saint-Cloud, L, also placed second in Emirates Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, Deauville, Gr.1, Prix Francois Boutin, Deauville, L, and third in Prix Ganay, Chantilly, Gr.1, Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, Prix des Chenes, Parislongchamp, Gr.3.

Retires to Stud in 2021.

Stands at: Yeomanstown Stud, Yeomanstown, Caragh, Naas, Co Kildare, W91 C993, Ireland.

Contact: Gay, David or Robert O’Callaghan

Telephone: +353 (0)45 897314 or +353 (0)87 2565561 (Gay) or +353 (0)86 8366554 (David) or +353 (0)85 1191288 (Robert)

Email: office@yeomanstown.ie

Web: www.yeomanstown.ie

Fee: €6,000