ALTHOUGH he was a Group/Grade 1 sire on the flat and over jumps, Sulamani’s enduring legacy will likely be the fact that he sired the 2016 Aintree Grand National winner Rule The World. That race has Grade 3 status, and Rule The World was also a Grade 2 winner over hurdles in his younger days.

The term globetrotter could well have been invented for the son of Hernando (Niniski). Sulamani won at the highest level six times, doing so in five different countries, stood in England and France and was enjoying life as a jumps stallion when he had to be put down at Yorton Farm Stud in Wales in early 2017.