MEHMAS set a new record number of winners for a European stallion with his first crop at the weekend, and by the time you read this the accompanying table could even be out of date. At close of business on Wednesday, his statistics show that 39 individual members of that first crop had won, and 10 of them are stakes horses.

He is the sire of a Group 1 winner, his sons Supremacy and Minzaal running first and third in the Middle Park Stakes, a race in which Mehmas himself finished third. Mehmas only raced at two, won half of his starts and his worst finishing position was in that Group 1. He beat Blue Point to win the Group 2 Richmond Stakes, was successful in the Group 2 July Stakes, and finished second to Churchill in the Group 1 National Stakes and behind Caravaggio in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes.