ALMOND Eye won the Group 1 Oka Sho, the Japanese 1000 Guineas, and she is the latest star to emerge from a branch of a family that is simply one of the best in the world. She also has the distinction of providing her sire Lord Kanaloa with his first Group 1 winner and from his first crop of racing age.

Lord Kanaloa was never out of the first three in 19 career starts that yielded earnings of just shy of £4 million. The champion older sprinter and champion miler in Japan at the ages of four and five, he also proved his worth on the international stage and twice landed the Hong Kong Sprint, beating Sole Power on the latter occasion. He is a son of the dual champion sire King Kamehameha (Kingmambo) and his grandam is Saratoga Dew (Cormorant), the champion filly at three in the USA in 1992 and winner of both the Grade 1 Beldame Stakes and Gazelle Stakes at Belmont.