THE death last December of Coolmore’s Champs Elysees (Danehill), rising 16 years of age, robbed the stallion ranks here of a sire who had just enjoyed a wonderful season – his daughter Billesdon Brook winning the Group 1 1000 Guineas and his son Harlem taking the Group 1 Australian Cup.

They brought to three the number of Group 1 winners sired by Champs Elysees, joining the Ascot Gold Cup winner Trip To Paris. Now his daughter Dame Malliot, in landing last weekend’s Group 2 Darley Prix de Pomone, joins Way To Paris as his second winner at that level. For good measure he is the sire of seven winners at Group or Grade 3 level on the flat.

Champs Elysees is an own-brother to the hugely successful sire Dansili (Danehill). Group 1-placed in Europe before crossing the Atlantic, Champs Elysees returned to join the stallion ranks at Banstead Manor Stud as a triple Grade 1 star. A son of the listed scorer and ‘Blue hen’ broodmare Hasili (Kahyasi), he is a sibling to the Group/Grade 1 winners Banks Hill (Danehill), Cacique (Danehill), Heat Haze (Green Desert) and Intercontinental (Danehill). Hasili is one of only two mares to ever produce five Group or Grade 1 winners.

Dame Malliot continues a fine run of success as an owner-breeder for Anthony Oppenheimer and the filly’s victory in France was a first Group 2 success for trainer Ed Vaughan. The filly has now won three of her four starts, including a listed race at Newmarket, and she is the best of three winners for her Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) dam Stars In Your Eyes.

Bought as a yearling by John Gosden for 210,000gns, Stars In Your Eyes finally repaid her connection’s patience when she won as a four-year-old on just her fourth outing. She was sold last December for just 32,000gns at Tattersalls, since then producing a colt foal by Lawman (Invincible Spirit) and she is now in the broodmare band at Tony and Anne O’Callaghan’s Tally-Ho Stud.