IT was quite the week for Darley’s Blue Point (Shamardal), as his first-crop son Action Point won the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes at Newbury, crediting the stallion with his second blacktype winner, while Shady Lady’s win in France brought his tally of individual winners to 20.

Ironically, Action Point finished down the field in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot, and the winner that day was Big Evs, a son of the triple Royal Ascot Group 1-winning sprinter.