TWENTY-ONE years of age, Dark Angel (Acclamation) has sired Group 1 winners in all but three of his first 14 crops. His grand total, to date, of winners at the highest level comes to 18, the most recent being the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes winner Almeraq, a Shadwell homebred.

The Yeomanstown Stud veteran is hale and hearty, covering 169 mares last year, and he is odds-on to add further to both his Group 1 record, and his Royal Ascot score. He has a special love affair with the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, and this was the third win in four years in the race for a son of Dark Angel, Khadeem having won it in 2023 and 2024. Going a little further back, another son, Lethal Force, was successful in 2013.