SOMETIMES blacktype can skip one generation in a pedigree and re-establish itself. Such is the case with the family of last weekend’s £200,000 Tattersalls Millions race at Newmarket winner Zhui Feng and this son of Invincible Spirit looks well on his way to stepping up further in class.

He is the fourth winning produce of the mare Es Que and what a bargain she has proven to be since the Burns’ Rathasker Stud purchased her in foal to Cacique for just 25,000gns in 2007 when she was carrying her first foal. It took a few years for the investment to reveal itself as a bargain though, and consideration was given at one time to sell the mare. Thankfully the Burns family stuck with her and she has been a star since.