THE O’Callaghan family at Yeomanstown Stud can be very pleased with how the 2023 season is panning out for their main flagbearer, Dark Angel (Acclamation). He reached a milestone earlier this year when he sired his 100th individual stakes winner, and now Art Power has become his 15th Group 1 winner after his British Champions Sprint Stakes triumph.

The six-year-old Art Power was making his 31st start at the weekend, and this was his finest hour. A €110,000 yearling buy by SackvilleDonald at Goffs in 2018, he has now won eight times his purchase price, and all of his previous wins at pattern level were gained in Ireland, the Group 2 Weatherbys Greenlands Stakes, Group 2 Sapphire Stakes and two editions of the Group 3 Renaissance Stakes at the Curragh, in addition to the Group 3 Lacken Stakes at Naas.

Bred by John Tuthill’s Owenstown Bloodstock, Art Power is the best of nine winners out of Evening Time, a daughter of the sub-fertile Keltos (Kendor). Retained by John and his late aunt Averil Whitehead as a yearling, Evening Time was put in training with Kevin Prendergast. At two she ran out a nine-length winner of a six-furlong maiden, and eight days later added the Listed Flame Of Tara EBF Stakes at the Curragh, winning by five lengths.

At three Evening Time was impressive when landing Leopardstown’s Sweet Mimosa Stakes by five lengths, and she was twice placed at Group 3 level.

In addition to Art Power, Evening Time is dam of the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes winner Penny Pepper (Fast Company), the French stakes winner Morning Frost (Duke Of Marmalade) and the US stakes-placed Shaan (Iffraaj).