He was a Royal Ascot winner in each of his three seasons in training and the best older miler in the world in 2011. He won five Group 1 events over that distance including the Irish 2000 Guineas and he was never out of the first three in any of his 11 starts.

Canford Cliffs is standing his third season at Coolmore at a very reasonable fee. He has over 100 live foals from his first crop and they made quite an impact in 2013, when 25 of them were sold at an average of €65,185, the second highest for a first crop sire. His top price of 180,000 guineas came at the Newmarket December Sale, when the BBA Ireland bought the bay filly out of Lady Éclair.