WHAT a great achievement it is to hail the new champion sire, Dark Angel, and what a credit he is to the O’Callaghan family at Yeomanstown and Morristown Lattin Studs. When the good-looking son of the recently deceased Acclamation (Royal Applause) went to stud, some eyebrows were raised in the industry.

Here was something different, a colt going to stud at the age of three, largely due to a paucity of opportunities for him at that age in the racing calendar, and one with a pedigree that while it was not offering something that was unfamiliar, it was certainly a bit different.