THERE are no guarantees in this business, but when you have a stallion as well-bred as Alkaadhem then the odds that he will sire one or more blacktype winners are reduced. A son of the hugely influential Green Desert (by Danzig), he won the Group 2 Jebel Hatta over nine furlongs and the Group 3 Select Stakes over 10, along with a pair of listed events at Goodwood, and he is out of Balalaika (by Sadler’s Wells), a stakes winner from the famous Reprocolor (by Jimmy Reppin) family.

He was a high-class racehorse from the immediate family of the Group 1 stars Opera House and Kayf Tara, both of whom have achieved success at stud and the latter being the outstanding National Hunt sire in England.