FORMER Kildangan Stud flagbearer Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway) is gone, but is influence will live for a long time to come.

His son ,Lope De Vega, like his father a dual classic star in France, is well-established as a leading international sire, which augurs well for the many younger ones coming up behind, a lot of which stand under the Darley banner. Captain Sonador hit the Group 1 target at stud but died young, while Casamento also died far too young, and he was also a Group 1 sire.