THE first crop of Group 2-winning Australian sprinter Kuroshio (Exceed And Excel) arrived quietly and he did not make the return trip to England. Then those offspring reached the track, and the secret was out.

Kurious won the Group 3 Coral Charge Sprint and the Listed Scurry Stakes, both at Sandown, Dunkerron was runner-up in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes, Siculi was Group 3- and listed-placed in Italy, and Daphinia finished second in the Listed Marygate Stakes. Those talented performers came from a batch of just 23 British-conceived foals. What an eye-catching start