Stallion statistics: Sadler's Wells

GOLD CUP-G1

£250,000, Ascot, 6-18, 4yo/up, 2 1/2mT, 4:20.73, gd/fm.

1--YEATS (IRE), 128, h, 8
Sadler's Wells--Lyndonville (Ire), by Top Ville (Ire)
O-Susan Magnier & Diane Nagle; B-Barronstown Stud & Orpendale; T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Johnny Murtagh; £141,925.

2--Patkai (Ire), 126, c, 4
Indian Ridge (Ire)--Olympienne (Ire), by Sadler's Wells.
O/B-Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd; T-Sir Michael Stoute; £53,800.

3--Geordieland (Fr), 128, h, 8
Johann Quatz (Fr)--Aerdee (Fr), by Highest Honor (Fr).
O-A Taylor, K Conlan & D Carberry; B-Mlle Michele Bliard; T-Jamie Osborne; £26,925.

Margins: 3HF, 15, 3 1/4. Odds: 6-4, 9-2, 11-4.
Also Ran: Sagara, Eastern Anthem (Ire), Hindu Kush (Ire), Centennial (Ire). DNF: Veracity (GB), Washington Irving (Ire).

Yeats is a half-brother to Tsukuba Symphony (Danehill), Grade One placed in Japan and Listed winner Solksjaer out of a winning half-sister to Group One Fillies' Mile winner Ivanka as well as the useful Pretoria and Keen Cut.

Sadler's Wells now has 11 stakes winners in Europe this year - more than any other sire; his earnings of £1.4 million outranks all his sire sons bar Galileo and puts him in fourth by European earnings on the leading sires' table.

Pedigree of YEATS (IRE), 2001