AT the Tattersalls December Sale in 1986, John Warren Bloodstock paid 58,000gns for Alsiba (Northfields), a winner that year at the age of four. She passed into the ownership of Jeff Smith, mentioned as the breeder of Dashing Blade on the previous page.

However, at the age of 14, and with what Smith might have believed to have been a disappointing breeding career to that time, he sold her, back at Tattersalls, carrying the subsequent nine-time winner Bond Diamond (Prince Sabo).