THE death of Poet’s Voice this year robs commercial breeders of a great opportunity to use some of the world’s best bloodlines, at an affordable price.

The son of Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) was a Group 2 winning two-year-old, capturing the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, and the following year he added the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes to his tally, defeating Rip Van Winkle and Red Jazz. He won four times in all, from seven furlongs to a mile, and his first three crops have already yielded 18 stakes winners, half of them group winners and five of them classic winners.