Darley’s European stallion roster will have two exciting new additions from next year, with Rosallion and Inisherin to stand at Dalham Hall Stud for the 2026 season.
Rosallion, the sensational Champion miler and Classic winner with a pedigree of the highest class, began his racing career in perfect fashion, setting a new course record at Newbury on his debut. This earned him a swift step up to Stakes company in the Pat Eddery at Ascot where he demolished a high-class field containing two future G1-winning juveniles and the G1 Dewhurst second by four lengths.
He rounded off his two-year-old campaign with another track record – and the first of his G1 victories – flying home to win the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.
Rosallion made his three-year-old debut in the English 2,000 Guineas where he found only Notable Speech too good, before winning his well-deserved Classic in the Irish equivalent three weeks later.
Next, Royal Ascot and the G1 St James’s Palace Stakes where he put up his best performance yet to beat both the English and French Guineas winners. In winning the coveted mile contest, he posted the fastest final two furlongs of any winner at Royal Ascot that year (including a scorching sub-12 second final furlong) and cemented his Champion Miler title.
This year, Rosallion has been placed on four occasions, with his three seconds all agonisingly close: a nose, a neck and a short head, all in elite G1 company.
Rosallion hails from a truly outstanding family, being out of Rosaline – herself a daughter of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid’s blue hen Reem Three, dam of no fewer than six Black Type winners. They include young Darley stallion and Frankel’s best miler, Triple Time.
He will stand alongside Inisherin, winner of Royal Ascot’s G1 Commonwealth Cup and Champion three-year-old sprinter.
The son of Shamardal broke his maiden on his three-year-old debut, beating future G1 winner Kalpana by three and a half lengths, a victory that was considered impressive enough for him to line up in the 2,000 Guineas where he was far from disgraced when finishing sixth.
He opened his Group-winning account in the G2 Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock, where the drop back in trip to six furlongs proved very successful as he won by almost four lengths, beating the European Champion two-year-old in the process.
Inisherin then confirmed his position as a top-class sprinter in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot as he flew home to win by over two lengths. Behind him that day were the subsequent Champions Sprint and Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winners, with his victory sealing three-year-old Champion Sprinter honours.
This year, his win in the G2 Duke Of York earned him a Racing Post Rating of 120, equalling Starman’s rating in the same race.
Inisherin is from the same flawless family as Rosallion– he is by the same sire as Blue Point and Lope de Vega, out of Teofilo’s G1 winner Ajman Princess, herself a daughter of the aforementioned Reem Three.
Sam Bullard Director of Stallions said, “Rosallion and Inisherin are hugely exciting additions to the stallion roster at Dalham Hall Stud as a Champion son of our own Blue Point and a fellow Champion by Shamardal - both from one of the finest female families around.
"Rosallion posted three thrilling G1 victories and is a gorgeous looking horse, which I am sure breeders will agree with when they come to view him at Dalham.”
"We are also delighted to add another top-class performer from the Shamardal line to our European roster and Inisherin offers British breeders a superb opportunity to use a Champion three-year-old sprinter.”
Fees for both stallions will be announced at a later date.
