ST Leger and dual Group 2 Doncaster Cup hero Millenary (by Rainbow Quest), whose career tally of a dozen wins also included five other Group 2s and a trio of Group 3s, retired to Knockhouse Stud upon completion of a 35-race career that netted him more than £950,000 in prize money.

Now, after 10 seasons completed, he is about to receive his first book at Nunstainton Stud in Co Durham and so the timing of his recent Grade A success in Ireland is a fine advertisement for the sort of horse he can get.

Nearly Nama’d, an eight-year-old trained by Sandra Hughes, took the Underwriting Exchange Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase by four and a half lengths at Fairyhouse last Sunday, his second win over the course and distance.

In late November he beat Minella Foru by two and a quarter lengths in the two miles, one furlong Easyfix Handicap Chase, a Grade B contest.

The dual blacktype scorer has now won four of his 10 starts over fences, adding to a pair of earlier wins over hurdles, and although he is the best horse in the first three generations of his family, there are several big names in the fourth, two of whom were Cheltenham Festival winners.

A £32,000 graduate of the Cheltenham April Sale, Nearly Nama’d was bred by Prospect Stables Ltd and he is one of three multiple winners out of Coca’s Well (by Religiously), who was well-beaten in bumpers and over hurdles.

Her first foal was Well Green (by Quws), who won three times over hurdles and was placed in a bumper and over fences, and her third is the Philip Hobbs-trained Filbert (by Oscar) whose most recent of three chase wins came over two and a half miles at Wincanton 12 months ago.

The youngest of her eight registered progeny is a Kalanisi (by Doyoun) two-year-old who made €10,000 in Fairyhouse as a foal.

Coca’s Well is half-sister to the chase and point-to-point winner Shanty Town (by Buckskin) and to Jam Packed (by Beneficial), who won three times over hurdles and twice over fences, and she is out of a mare who was unplaced in three starts on the flat and also failed to trouble the judge in point-to-points.

That mare is called Mad House, a daughter of Kabour (by Habitat).

He looks a bit out of place in the pedigree of a chaser, although his is not a name that will ring a bell with most.

He won just a few sprints and had dropped from a Timeform figure of 80 to just 57 when he retired to stud, but he lodged himself in my memory through the exploits of his son Kabcast, a 14-times sprint handicap winner for his breeder and trainer David Chapman.

More prolific was 16-times sprint winner Kalar, and this pair ran a remarkable 293 times between them. His progeny also included Ruth’s Gamble who added five wins over hurdles to three on the flat. The third dam of Nearly Nama’d is Open House, a four-times flat scorer by the US stakes winner Road House (by Hasty Road), and although her six foals included a dual chase scorer it is her siblings who catch the attention instead.

She was one of six winners from 15 foals out of an unraced mare called First Adventure (by Fighting Don) and that made her a half-sister to Denys Adventure (by Saint Denys), the Tim Forster-trained gelding who won the Arkle Chase at Cheltenham in 1973.

Her full-sister Miss Boon won twice on the flat, five times over hurdles and thrice over fences and became the grandam of the Grade C chase winner Third Level Tom (by Silver Patriarch), and her once-successful full-sister House Party also did her part for the family by coming up with the Scottish Grand National runner-up Cheeny’s Brig (by New Brig).

Two of her unraced half-sisters also achieved blacktype success at stud and that pair, daughters of the multiple champion sire Deep Run (by Pampered King), were Deep Adventure and Fast Adventure.

The former is the dam of the blacktype-winning hurdler My Sunny Glen (by Furry Glen) and the latter is the grandam of the dual Grade 1 star Menorah (by King’s Theatre).

That Philip Hobbs-trained 11-year-old won the Grade 1 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival, and his string of blacktype wins since include the Grade 1 Manifesto Novices’ Chase at Aintree, the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase at Kempton and the Grade 2 Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby.

The most recent of his 13 career wins came in the Listed Oaksey Chase over two and three-quarter miles at Sandown in April, in which he beat Al Ferof by one and a quarter lengths, and he was last seen out when third behind Don Poli and Many Clouds in a listed chase over three miles, one furlong at Aintree in December.

The relationship of Menorah and Denys Adventure to the recent dual blacktype chase winner Nearly Nama’d is quite remote, but with talent in its roots there was always a chance that it could surface in another branch of the tree.