Danehill (by Danzig) could be described as the world’s first truly global sire and there is a long and growing list of his male line descendants who have sired at least one Group 1 winner somewhere.

It was perhaps fitting, therefore, that it is one of his sons who has become established as being the first major ‘reverse shuttle’ stallion, a southern hemisphere bred horse who is as successful here as he is ‘down under’.