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Candarliya, a filly bred and raced by the Aga Khan with some notable connections to Australia, is undoubtedly one of the top three-year-olds in France this year.

Her win as an odds on favourite at the celebrated Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe carnival at Longchamp in the G2 Prix de Royallieu over 2500m was her fifth win in her last six outings since April.

The only interruption to her winning sequence was when she finished second behind the dual Arc winner Treve in the G1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on September 13.

Also placed in her first three starts Candarliya has a pedigree of considerable interest to Australian breeders as she has three current or past shuttle sires in her immediate pedigree.

They are the currently active Dalakhani and the past stud champions Barathea and Woodman.

Inbred 4x4 to Mr. Prospector, Candarliya is by Dalakhani, the Aga Khan’s former European Horse of the Year in 2000 when he won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and French Derby.

Her dam Candara is by Barathea, the son of Sadler’s Wells who won Breeders’ Cup Mile and Irish 2000 Guineas.

Barathea shuttled to Widden Stud for six seasons in the 1990s.

Woodman, the son of Mr. Prospector who also shuttled between both hemispheres for Coolmore Stud, appears in Candarliya’s breeding as the sire of her grandam Caribbeandriftwood.

A winner in England, Caribbeandriftwood is from Drifting (Lyphard), a half-sister to three stakes winners and a three-quarter sister to Lakab.

Lakab is the dam of three stakes winners including Randwick City Tattersalls Cup winner Roanoke (Danehill) and is the grandam of King’s Rose, the Redoute’s Choice mare who was a winner of the NZ Bloodstock Filly of the Year title, and Anabandana (Anabaa), the NZ Champion 2YO in 2010-11.

Woodman and Barathea are both deceased but Dalakhani, a representative of the Mill Reef male line, is currently serving his third shuttle season in Australia at Cornerstone Stud in South Australia.

Dalakhani, the sire of 44 stakes winners, is also responsible for Integral, the 5YO mare who underlined her status as a world class miler with a second in the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket in England last weekend in her third start in the race.

A daughter of Danehill’s G1 winning mare Echelon, Integral won the Sun Chariot in 2014 and was second in 2013.

She has raced 14 times for six wins and is one of eight G1 winners by Dalakhani, a list that is headed by King George V1 & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, English St Leger and dual Breeders Cup Turf winner Conduit and Reliable Man, the French Derby who won the G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick before going to stud.

Reliable Man is shuttling between Westbury Stud in New Zealand and Germany while Conduit is a proven sire of winners in Japan.