Cavalryman landed his third Stakes success of the season with victory in the G2 Prix Niel on Arc trials' day at Longchamp. The three-year-old son of Halling won the G1 Grand Prix de Paris in July and is now en route for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on 3 October.
That is also the target for Dar Re Mi but there was bitter disappointment for her owner/breeders Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber after the daughter of Singspiel passed the post first in the G1 Prix Vermeille earlier on the card but was later demoted to fifth place, having been judged to have caused minor interference to Soberania. Dar Re Mi, who was second to Zarkava in last season's Prix Vermeille and whose dam Darara is a former winner of the race, has already won the G1 Pretty Polly Stakes and the G1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks this season.
With his fellow first-crop stallion Dubawi having sired two Group Two winners in consecutive days, Shamardal also has some promising two-year-olds to his name, including the Gestut Ammerland-bred Lope de Vega, who is now unbeaten in two starts. She was the easy winner of the seven-furlong Prix Al Khor at Longchamp by two-and-a-half lengths.
