WHAT have Irish Derby winners Balanchine (1994) and Sovereign (2019), four-time Group 1 winner Thunder Snow, French Oaks heroine West Wind and the unbeaten juvenile hurdler Duffle Coat got in common?

Well, they all descend from the Robert Sangster-owned Morning Devotion (Affirmed), a group-placed two-year-old winner on her debut of the Park Lodge Maiden Stakes at Newmarket over six furlongs in 1984.