FRANKEL (Galileo) reached a landmark at Ascot, where he himself won the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes, Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes, Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes and the Group 2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes, when his son Mostahdaf added the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Wednesday’s centrepiece, to four Group 3 victories.

This was the stallion’s 30th individual Group 1 winner

Last year Mostahdaf was runner-up in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes, and his latest success came three years after his half-sister, Nazeef (Invincible Spirit), won the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes on the corresponding day. She put together a fine record in an 11-start career, winning seven times. At Group 1 level she won the Falmouth and the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket.

Homebred by Shadwell, Mostahdaf is out of the Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) mare Handassa, victorious in the Listed Garnet Stakes at Naas. This is the fourth time that the Frankel-Dubawi cross has produced a Group 1 winner, the others being Derby winner Adayar, classic heroine Homeless Songs, and Dream Castle.

Handassa, from the second crop of Dubawi, was bought for Shadwell by Angus Gold for 100,000gns as a yearling. She now has four winners, a two-year-old full-brother to Mostahdaf named Mutaawid (Frankel), and a yearling colt by Kingman (Invincible Spirit).

Handassa, trained by Kevin Prendergast, was impressive when winning her sole start at two, almost six lengths clear of the rest in a seven-furlong maiden at the Curragh. At three she was considered good enough to run in the Irish 1000 Guineas, but it was on her penultimate start at Naas that she got the valuable blacktype she deserved.

Nazeef’s and Mostahdaf’s Group 1 successes are not the only major updates to the family in recent years. Handassa’s half-brother Desert Stone (Fastnet Rock) finally got the stakes win he was overdue, capturing the Grade 2 San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita three years ago. He has been Grade 1-placed.

Desert Stone, Handassa and Eugino (Fastnet Rock), who was group-placed, are three of the five winners from the unraced Starstone (Diktat). She had just two winning siblings, but what a pair they were. The full-brothers Pastoral Pursuits (Bahamian Bounty) and Goodricke were both champion sprinters in 2005, the former in the older horse division and the latter as a three-year-old. Pastoral Pursuits won the Group 1 July Cup, while Goodricke landed the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup.