Now his juveniles have had another excellent year in 2013, with 17 winners of 23 races in Europe and almost €500,000 in prize money. Altogether, he has sired some 190 individual winners of over 485 races, who have earned more than €7,000,000 in prize money, among them 13 different blacktype scorers. There should be plenty more winners to come, as he covered 98 mares in 2013.

Clodovil’s star performer has been Nahoodh, who defeated Fleeting Spirit in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at York and trained on to score in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.