JUST days before this year’s Group 1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, I spoke with Anthony Oppenheimer about his then upcoming sale of yearlings at Tattersalls. He remarked, in passing, that it would be something special were Cracksman (Frankel) to sire the winner of the race. Then it happened in spectacular fashion.

Though it was always likely that Cracksman would show his true colours as a sire when his stock got older, the Dalham Hall stallion was off the mark with his first runners in late May last year, and by the end of 2022 he had been responsible for 15 individual winners. Two of his daughters were successful at stakes level, Aloa winning the Group 2 Premio Dormello.