THE death last December of Coolmore’s Champs Elysees (Danehill), rising 16 years of age, robbed the stallion ranks here of a sire who had just enjoyed a wonderful season – his daughter Billesdon Brook winning the Group 1 1000 Guineas and his son Harlem taking the Group 1 Australian Cup.

They brought to three the number of Group 1 winners sired by Champs Elysees, joining the Ascot Gold Cup winner Trip To Paris. Now his daughter Dame Malliot, in landing last weekend’s Group 2 Darley Prix de Pomone, joins Way To Paris as his second winner at that level. For good measure he is the sire of seven winners at Group or Grade 3 level on the flat.