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Camelot is having a moment - and it could last as his most expensively bred crops come on stream

In the fourth part of Sires of 2025, we profile a Coolmore resident whose stock and stud fee have never been higher

Camelot: excellent 2024 thanks to the likes of Bluestocking
Camelot: excellent 2024 thanks to the likes of Bluestocking and Los AngelesCredit: Coolmore

"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot."

Alan Lerner's lyrics in the famous musical, transmuted to an elegy for slain president John F Kennedy: the equine Camelot was bestowed with this portentous name but his reign is no mere gossamer of illusion.

Indeed, Coolmore's own Camelot is beaming brightly as a beacon of middle-distance virtue and power. 

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