MANHATTAN Cafe may not be as well-known as the likes of Deep Impact among the ranks of Japanese stallions, but this St Leger winning son of Sunday Silence continues to make his mark and he was a great loss following his death last year at just 17 years of age.

He is in the news again as his daughter Queens Ring made the breakthrough to the big time when she won the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Kyoto, beating another daughter of his in Sing With Joy by a neck. Though bred by Shadai Farm in Japan and out of a Japanese-bred daughter of Anabaa, Queens Ring’s family tree is very much European on the dam’s side.