SANTIAGO was runner-up at Galway to Alpine Star in a maiden last year. Now the pair are Group 1 winners. Alpine Star won the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, while Santiago, himself winner of the Group 2 Queen’s Vase at the same meeting, is now a classic winner, leading home a Ballydoyle clean sweep of the first four places in the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby.

Bred by Lynch Bages, Santiago is a son of Authorized (Montjeu) who was exported to Turkey last year following the success of his offspring there, being responsible for a pair of champions in Bici Bici and the dual champion Toruk Macto. He proved to be a useful sire of runners on the flat and over jumps, and is the sire of the dual Grand National hero Tiger Roll.