IT is remarkable how often it happens that some of a stallion’s best results do not appear until after he is no longer available to breeders.

We have seen it a few times this year, and two Group 1 classic winners for Duke Of Marmalade (by Danehill) have been among the main examples in 2015, but that now South Africa-based horse is not the only such stallion to record a Group 1 double this season.

In late March the Aga Khan’s homebred four-year-old Dolniya established herself as one of the top middle-distance fillies in the world with an impressive success in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan.

A Group 1-placed Group 2 scorer last year, the Alain de Royer-Dupré-trained bay has been runner-up in the Group 1 Coronation Cup and third behind the mighty Treve in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud this summer and a second attempt at the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe could be on her agenda. She was fifth behind Treve in the 2014 running.

Dolniya is a daughter of the Group 1 star and late Gilltown Stud stallion Azamour (by Night Shift), as was the undefeated 2012 Group 1 Prix de Diane (French Oaks) heroine Valyra who, tragically, died shortly after that defeat of the classic scorer Beauty Parlour.

Azamour died last year, at the age of just 13, and last Saturday he sired a third Group 1 star when the Hugo Palmer-trained filly Covert Love beat Jack Naylor by one and three-quarter lengths in the Group 1 Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

He is also the sire of Thursday’s Naas listed six furlong winner winner Letters Of Note.

Unplaced on her only start as a juvenile, Covert Love is unbeaten in four races in 2015, she won a listed contest at Newcastle last month, and she is another Group 1 graduate of the all-weather tracks.

Chelmsford reopened in January, was back in action again this week following a short break for re-waxing of the surface, and it was there, in early May, that Covert Love justified favouritism in a 10-furlong maiden.

Last month’s runaway Group 1 Irish Derby hero Jack Hobbs began his career with a Wolverhampton maiden success, the venue where last year’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up Toast Of New York recorded his first wins.

Covert Love was bred by Sommerville Bloodstock (Hugo Merry and Mark McStay), she is a €26,000 graduate of the Goffs Orby Sale, and she is the third foal out of the placed mare Wing Stealth (by Hawk Wing).

Her half-sister Stealth Missile (by Invincible Spirit) won over seven furlongs at Ascot and Lingfield and was placed in a Newmarket handicap, but was unplaced in her three attempts in blacktype company.

Now that she is a half-sister to a classic winner it is surely odds-on that she would fetch considerably more in the auction ring now than the 35,000gns she made in Newmarket in February.

The same is true of their older sibling Montjess (by Montjeu). Placed in five of her 17 starts, she was led out unsold at just £2,500 at Doncaster in January.

Wing Stealth’s fourth foal is also a filly and that juvenile, Princesse Eva (by Manduro), has been out of the frame in four attempts in France for trainer Olivier Sauvaget, who got her for just €8,000 at the Osarus Yearling September Sale last year, most recently finishing fourth in a minor event 11 days ago.

Wing Stealth is out of an unraced mare called Starlight Smile (by Green Dancer) and her five winning siblings include Portrait Of A Lady (by Peintre Celebre), a stakes-placed triple scorer who has produced two above-average runners at stud.

The Group 3-placed Vitruvian Man (by Montjeu) and his full-sister Miss You Too, who won the Listed John Musker Stakes at Yarmouth and finished third in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud, are very closely related to the afore mentioned Montjess.

The mare’s three-year-old Young Daisy Miller (by Azamour), who made 50,000gns as a yearling, is very closely related to Covert Love, her yearling is a daughter of Pour Moi (by Montjeu) and she had a Camelot (by Montjeu) filly in April.

The third dam of Saturday’s classic heroine is Bubinka (by Nashua), whose two wins included a Group 3 contest in Italy, and although she only came up with four winners from 11 foals, she is the direct ancestor of many stakes and pattern scorers around the world, several of whom have won or been placed at the highest level.

Bubinka is the grandam of Grey Swallow (by Daylami), who won the Group 1 Irish Derby in 2004 and the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup the following spring, and that colt’s winning dam Style Of Life (by The Minstrel) is both the grandam of the juvenile Group 1 scorer Night Style (by Night Shift) and a full-sister to Bubinka’s most influential daughter.

Seasonal Pickup, whose five wins included listed sprints at Phoenix Park and at the Curragh, was also the best of her dam’s runners and a mare who features prominently in the pedigree of some top Moyglare Stud-bred horses.

The best of them is Seasonal Pickup’s grandson Designs On Rome (by Holy Roman Emperor), a triple Grade 1 star over 10 furlongs in Hong Kong, earner of over €4 million in prize money, and who finished fourth behind Dolniya in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic in March.

He began his career with Pat Flynn and was runner-up to Dawn Approach in the Group 1 National Stakes on the last of his five Irish starts.

His half-brother Sights On Gold (by Indian Ridge) won a listed contest at Leopardstown, in the famous Moyglare colours, and was later a Grade 1-placed dual pattern scorer for Godolphin.

The pair have another notable half-brother in Simple Exchange (by Danehill) and that Dermot Weld-trained colt also carried the Moyglare colours when winning the Grade 2 American Derby over nine and a half furlongs at Arlington in 2004.

If you go back another generation you will find that Bubinka was a half-sister to Taufan (by Stop The Music), the Group 2-placed Rathbarry Stud sire of their Group 1 scorer Tagula who, in turn, is responsible for Coolmore’s mile ace and successful first seaon sire Canford Cliffs.

Going back another branch in the family tree will bring you to Stolen Hour (by Mr. Busher), fifth dam of Covert Love and grandam of Best In Show (by Traffic Judge), the pattern scorer whose Group/Grade 1-winning descendants include El Gran Senor (by Northern Dancer), Try My Best (by Northern Dancer), Redoute’s Choice (by Danehill), Rags To Riches (by A.P. Indy), Peeping Fawn (by Danehill), Thewayyouare (by Kingmambo), Xaar (by Zafonic) and many others of note.

Covert Love’s relationship to those stars is quite remote, but her closer proximity to horses such as Grey Swallow and Designs On Rome is noteworthy and, in addition to her pedigree suggesting that there may still be improvement to come, it offers hope that this classic-winning daughter of Azamour could become a top broodmare whenever her racing days come to an end.