THE Irish National Stud’s handsome chesnut stallion Decorated Knight is clearly passing on his good looks at his modest fee of €9,000, as all but one of his first foals sold in 2019 made prices of €23,000 or more, with a top figure of €221,445 (190,000gns) at Newmarket for Norelands Stud’s colt out of Princess Noor.

A son of Galileo, Decorated Knight was three times a Group 1 winner at around 10 furlongs and ended his illustrious career with earnings of £1,325,886. Second on his only start as a two-year-old, he won over a mile at Haydock Park and Sandown Park the next season and was third in the Group 2 Joel Stakes at Newmarket. Improving all the time, he won the Group 3 Meld Stakes at Leopardstown by two lengths and the listed Festival Stakes at Goodwood as a four-year-old, besides finishing second in the Group 3 Diomed Stakes at Epsom.