MARGUERITE Weld and her son Dermot crop up in the story of Hygge elsewhere on these pages, and they are also intimately associated with the family of the Japanese Group 2 winner King Of Koji (Lord Kanaloa). That four-year-old colt, now a five-time winner, is the first winner out of Phaenomena (Galileo), a 700,000gns yearling purchase who earned just over £14,000 from two victories when trained by Lady Cecil for the Niarchos family.

However, her value lay other than just in her racing ability. She was born seven years after her Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas winning full-sister Nightime (Galileo), and that mare is now herself the dam of a pair of Group 1 winners, Zhukova (Fastnet Rock), who sold a few years ago to Godolphin for 3,700,000gns, and last year’s runaway Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden hero Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) who ran in yesterday’s Coronation Cup. Nightime was the best winner from Caumshinaun (Indian Ridge), a particular favourite of Mrs Weld and a listed winner at Cork.