Shamardal, Europe’s leading first-season sire by prize money, recorded his 19th individual winner in outstanding fashion on 15 October when Godolphin’s Saboteur romped to a wide-margin victory in the eight-and-a-half-furlong Maiden at Nottingham.
Making all the running under Frankie Dettori, Saboteur easily moved clear of his rivals in the straight and was eased down when crossing the line seven lengths in front.
Bred by Usk Valley Stud, Saboteur is out of the Stakes-winning, G2-placed Most Welcome mare Croeso Cariad. The dam is herself a half-sister to multiple G1 placer Mona Lisa and is a granddaughter of the great Reprocolor.
Shamardal is also sire of G3 Solario Stakes and Goffs Million winner Shakespearean; plus fellow G3 winner Arctic. He has also sired no fewer than five Black type performers in Australia in the last three weeks including yesterday's G1 Thousand Guineas third, Faint Perfume.
Also on Thursday Only Green, a three-year-old daughter of Green Desert added further Black type to her CV when winning the Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr, run over seven furlongs at Chantilly.
