DREAM Ahead (by Diktat) was one of the best European sprinters of recent decades, a five-times Group 1 winner whom Timeform-rated 128 as a juvenile and 133 as a three-year-old.

He beat the subsequent classic scorer Tin Horse in the Prix Morny, took the Middle Park Stakes by an astonishing nine lengths in soft ground, and then added the July Cup, Sprint Cup and Prix de la Foret before taking up stallion duties at Ballylinch Stud.

His first yearlings made up to 400,000gns and he is now among the leading freshman sires in Europe with a growing number of winners that include Final Frontier, odds-on victor of the Group 3 Jebel Ali Racecourse & Stables Anglesey Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

The Jessica Harrington-trained colt was an impressive four and a half length debut winner at the same venue three weeks before and he holds entries in both the Group 2 Futurity Stakes and the Group 1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes.

Final Frontier is a €37,000 graduate of the Goffs Sportsmans Yearling Sale, he is the fifth foal of his dam, and the more highly-rated of his two winning siblings is Lola Beaux (by Equiano), the Dundalk scorer who chased home Qualify in the Group 3 C.L. & M.F. Weld Park Stakes at the Curragh in September.

The pair were bred by Vimal and Gillian Kholsa and they are out of the precociously talented Polly Perkins (by Pivotal) who won the Listed National Stakes at Sandown and added an eight-length romp in the Listed Dragon Stakes at the same venue a month later.

She is a half-sister to the dual Southwell winner Dontuwishitwereso (by Kyllachy) and her dam Prospering (by Prince Sabo) is a winning half-sister both to the speedy and precocious Kastaway (by Distant Relative) and to Skidmark (by Pennekamp), a stakes-placed triple Lingfield scorer who was also successful in Greece.

Those are the highlights of the first three generations of the family, but if you look at the record of the fourth dam then you will find plenty more blacktype and also good two-year-old form.

Well Off (by Welsh Pageant) was unplaced but nine of her 14 foals were winners, including the top Belgian horse Sharpset (by Sharpen Up) and the pattern-placed English stakes winner Royal Loft (by Homing).

One of the mare’s few non-runners was a filly called Sharper Still (by Sharpen Up) and it is she who became the dam of the juvenile Group 2 scorer Jimmy Barnie (by Local Suitor). She is also the grandam of the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes winner Summerhill Parkes (by Zafonic) and of My Melody Parkes (by Teenoso), a filly who was placed in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes and in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes in 1995.

Final Frontier has only run twice so far but there is a chance that he could become the best horse that his family has produced in recent decades, and he is a fine advertisement for his exciting young sire.