'A horse can change your life and she has changed mine' - Bluestocking the Arc heroine for Camelot and Ryan

Bluestocking became the seventh runner to carry the green, white and pink silks of Juddmonte to victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and the first four-year-old to complete the Prix Vermeille-Arc double.

The one-two was a repeat of the Vermeille result as Bluestocking defeated Sea The Stars filly Aventure with Irish Derby winner Los Angeles in third, giving his sire a one-three in Europe's most prestigious race.

Trained by Ralph Beckett for Juddmonte, and ridden by Rossa Ryan, it was the third Group 1 victory of the season and of her career following on from her breakthrough victory in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on the same weekend Los Angeles tasted Classic glory.

Although a stunned Beckett told Sky Sports Racing that he hadn't expected Bluestocking to be in the winner's enclosure despite supplementing the filly for the Arc, jockey Ryan had complete faith in her.

"I thought if she was back to her Vermeille form she could win, as I think it was one of the strongest Vermeilles in a long time," he told Sky Sports Racing.

Bluestocking: yet another Arc winner for Juddmonte and a first for CamelotCredit: Edward Whitaker

"She is the mare of my dreams," he smiled. "I dissected the form and found holes in it so I thought she could be competitive. I knew Ryan [Moore, on Los Angeles] could guarantee me a lead up to about 600m and then it was a question of if she was good enough."

"She didn't let me down, a horse can change your life and she has changed mine."

A remarkably consistent filly, Bluestocking has only twice finished outside the first three in her career and both of those were in Group 1 contests at York. She was fourth to City Of Troy, Calandagan and Ghostwriter in the Juddmonte International and a year previously was fourth to Warm Heart in the Yorkshire Oaks.

She has also been placed in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Irish Oaks and British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes.

Her three-year-old Showcasing half-brother Qirat is entered in the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale later this month. Trained, like his brilliant sister, by Ralph Beckett he was runner-up in the Challange Cup at Ascot on Saturday.

Emulous: Matron Stakes winner and dam of BluestockingCredit: Patrick McCann

Bluestocking has a two-year-old Frankel half-brother named Dissident, a yearling half-sister by Kingman and Emulous has a Frankel filly foal at foot.

Her dam Emulous was trained by Dermot Weld to win the Group 1 Matron Stakes and is a full-sister to Group 3 winners First Sitting and Daring Diva. The latter is the second dam of Kentucky Derby and Haskell Stakes winner Mandaloun, who stands at Juddmonte's Kentucky farm.

Second dam Aspiring Diva was third in the Listed Prix Herod and is the dam of five winners from seven runners.

Bluestocking and Los Angeles are two of 12 individual Group/Grade 1 winners sired by the 2012 Guineas and Derby winner Camelot and both are out of mares by Juddmonte's brilliant Dansili, making them to Danehill, the sire of Camelot's second dam Fickle. The cross has a top-class stakes winners to runners rate of 13.3 per cent.

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