READERS of this column will be well familiar with the term ‘blue hen’ as it relates to broodmares. Eight mares in history
have the distinction worldwide of breeding four or more Group or Grade 1 winners, and one of them is Darara.

Winner of the Group 1 Prix Vermeille, this daughter of Top Ville (High Top) produced a total of 10 winners, among them the quartet of Group 1 winners. They are Dar Re Mi (Singspiel), Prince of Wales’s Stakes and Dubai Sheema Classic winner Rewilding (Tiger Hill), Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes hero Diaghilev (Sadler’s Wells), and Darazari (Sadler’s Wells) who achieved his Group 1 success in the Ranvet Stakes in Australia.