MONAGHAN-born Eamon Cleary died in September 2012, the year that the multiple stakes winner Bubbler visited Unbridled’s Song. Having been central to the decision to breed this pair, what a great sadness it is for the family that Eamon did not live to enjoy the fruits of that union, which produced last weekend’s awesome Grade 1 Travers Stakes winner Arrogate.

Making his stakes debut in this prestigious race, Arrogate is a horse with a great future and the victory was timely as his Medaglia D’Oro half-sister is due to come under the hammer at Keeneland later this month. This will be at the same venue where Arrogate, having failed to take up his appointment with the auctioneers as a foal, was sold to Juddmonte for $560,000 as a yearling. He has now won $785,000 and his value as a stallion prospect is many times that.