WHAT a few weeks it has been for Coolmore’s St Mark’s Basilica (Siyouni). It was not until the second day in June that he got off the mark with his first winner, Rogue Supremacy winning with some style at Wetherby. That colt has won again since, and tackled stakes company a few times without being in the frame.

Since then, six more sons and daughters of the Group 1 Dewhurst winner and champion three-year-old have been successful, and St Mark’s Basilica recently sired his first stakes winner, thanks to Fozzy Stack’s colt Thesecretadversary finally getting his head in front in the Listed Coolmore Stud Churchill Stakes over seven and a half furlongs at Tipperary. The two-year-old races for Gaynor Rupert’s Cayton Park Stud and Sue Magnier, having been bred by that partnership.