WHAT do Germany, Australia and Scotland have in common. Not much perhaps, but they provide racecourses that saw progeny of two Irish National Stud stallions enjoy notable victories recently.

Phoenix Of Spain (Lope De Vega) sired a pair of Group 3 winners from his first crop, and both were earning their first pieces of blacktype. Soul Of Spain gained his fifth career win, and fourth in Australia, when he won the Newcastle Gold Cup, and this came a few days before Caballo De Mar won for the seventh time, landing the spoils in the Deutsches (German) St Leger.