Shamardal Gets 100th Black-Type Winner
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Shamardal at Darley
Darley sire Shamardal joined the elite circle of stallions to reach the milestone of 100 black-type winners when daughter Gouache won the Preis von Berliner Schloss-Hoppegartener Stutenpreis Aug. 14 in Germany.
Shamardal is a 14-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Giant's Causeway out of the Machiavellian mare Helsinki, a full sister to grade/group I winner and deceased sire Street Cry. He stands at Kildangan Stud in Ireland where his 2016 was private.
Top performers by Shamardal include 17 group I winners, including 2015 Hong Kong Horse of the Year and champion miler Able Friend and 2010 Australian champion 3-year-old filly Faint Perfume. With 1,265 foals in his first nine crops he has a respectable 8% foals-to-stakes winners strike rate. Overall, his progeny have earned more than $86.7 million.
Shamardal has 17 stakes winners in 2016, including group I winners Dariyan and Tryster, good fillies Usherette and Speedy Boarding, 2-year-old filly Alrahma, and Australian group II winner Bow Creek.
Shamardal was a two-time classic winner in France, taking the 2005 Prix du Jockey Club (Fr-I, French Derby) and Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (Fr-I, French Two Thousand Guineas) as well as winning at Royal Ascot in the St. James's Place Stakes (Eng-I), all in succession.
He went unbeaten at age 2, winning three races, including the Darley Dewhurst (Eng-I) and was named Europe's champion 2-year-old colt. Overall, he won six of seven career starts.
Gouache won the 1,800-meter (about 1 1/8-mile) event by three-quarters of a length and covered the distance in 1:53.30. She is trained by Jean-Pierre Carvalho for owner-breeder Stall Ullmann. The 4-year-old filly is out of the stakes-winning Dynaformer mare Guantana, who was group III-placed. The winner is a half sister to group II winner Guardini.