Connections feel exciting prospect Nightwalker has the potential to become a Classic contender during his three-year-old season, when he will be overseen by John and Thady Gosden.

The early stages of Nightwalker’s career have been guided by Sir Michael Stoute, but with the great Freemason Lodge handler retiring at the end of the season, the son of Frankel will make the short move along Newmarket’s Bury Road to the neighbouring Clarehaven operation.