HAPPY days in Tipperary where Reddy and Linda Coffey stand Unfortunately, and at Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket, owners of the stallion. This week the son of Society Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) sired a stakes winner in his first crop, Perdika landing the spoils in the five and a half-furlong Listed Prix Ronde de Nuit at Chantilly by a head, with the third-placed horse some eight lengths adrift.

Last year Perdika won four times as a juvenile in England from five starts, and she then headed to Meydan where, this year, she ran four times and earned more than £16,500 from one second-place finish. That was as much as she amassed from all her juvenile successes in England.