With the conclusion of another fabulous week at Royal Ascot, we are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 MyDarley competition.
A huge congratulations to Susanne Beyreuther, who has won a case of champagne for successfully predicting Night Of Thunder to be the first Darley stallion to sire a winner at the meeting this year, as well as correctly predicting the total number of Darley-sired winners.
The first Darley-sired winner came when Night Of Thunder’s Ombudsman announced himself as the best older horse in Europe with a brilliant performance in the G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday. The Godolphin homebred took his record to five wins from six career starts and could line up in the G1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown next.
In the very next race, Blue Point sired his first winner of the week when My Cloud stormed home to win the Royal Hunt Cup in impressive fashion. A half-brother to fellow Darley stallion and exciting first-season sire Palace Pier, he looks destined for Stakes company next.
Miss Information completed a brilliant Blue Point double with victory in the very next race, the Kensington Palace Stakes, making it three winners on the day for the European stallions and four in total - after Darley America stallion Nyquist sired Crimson Advocate to win the G2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes earlier on the card, with Shamardal’s Cinderella’s Dream and Too Darn Hot’s Fallen Angel filling the places.
Two further victories for the Darley stallions came on Thursday, with Teofilo’s three-year-old son Merchant winning the King George V Stakes, and Dubawi’s Trinity College taking the G3 Hampton Court Stakes, with Too Darn Hot pair Tornado Alert and Glittering Legend chasing him home in second and third.
