LAST Kingdom this week became the latest group winner from the first crop of Frankel. The unbeaten champion who stands at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket can simply do no wrong. Could he add an Irish Derby winner to his tally this weekend?

With Soul Stirring becoming his first Group 1 winner in Japan, he has added Group 2 winner Queen Kindly and seven Group 3 winners to his tally – all from that first crop. Throw in the blacktype winner Mori, the classic-placed Cracksman and the group-placed Count Octave, Dream Castle, Lady Frankel and Mirage Dancer, and it is fair to say that few sires have started their career so well.

Last Kingdom won the Group 3 Prix Daphnis this week on just his fifth start. A $500,000 Keeneland yearling purchase by Hugo Merry for Nawara Stud, he was purchased from his breeders Reiko and Michael Baum. They had acquired his dam Compelling at the 2012 Tattersalls December Sale for 375,000gns carrying her first foal by Montjeu. Last Kingdom carries the colours of Prince A A Faisel who also raced Invincible Spirit and Make Believe. Placed on his only starts at two, he is unbeaten in three runs this year.

Compelling won a seven-furlong maiden as a three-year-old at Limerick from David Wachman’s yard, in the distinctive silks of Michael Tabor. When she sold at Newmarket it was the year after her Dansili half-brother Requinto had established himself as a speedy juvenile, his victories including the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes. Since then he has gone to stud and his full-brother Independence Day was group-placed at two.

Requinto and Compelling are out of the Entrepreneur mare Damson. She was bought from her breeder Denis Brosnan as a yearling at Goffs for €160,000 by Wachman and he trained her to become the champion filly at two in Ireland. That year she won the Queen Mary Stakes at Ascot before adding the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes. She also placed in the Cheveley Park Stakes. To date she is responsible for four winners, all of them trained by the now retired Wachman.

Damson’s dam is the Darshaan mare Tadkiyra who won in France for her owner/breeder the Aga Khan. She is also the dam of the Group 3 winning two-year-old Geminiani, a daughter of King Of Kings.