PETER and Ross Doyle Bloodstock bought the Prix Robert Papin winner Gutaifan twice – in the sale ring as a foal and privately as a yearling. Bred by Eimear Mulhern and her mother Maureen Haughey, the son of Dark Angel realised €75,000 as a foal. He was purchased then on behalf of Pier House Stud on the Curragh.

Gutaifan’s Group 2 win was yet another boost for Dark Angel who is having a magnificent year. This was his fourth stakes winning juvenile – following Delizia, Promised Money and Birchwood – and one of his 11 individual stakes winners of the year. Breeders who used him at €27,500 this year will be among those filled with glee as his fee is surely set for a major hike come autumn time.