THERE are no guarantees in life, but it will be something of a shock if Gleneagles fails to become a sire of note.

Group 1 star at two and three, a Timeform rating of 128 ranked him joint-fifth best European three-year-old of 2015, equal with New Bay and behind Golden Horn, Muhaarar, Jack Hobbs and Order Of St George, but unlike them his effective season was cut short by the weather and the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Ascot was the last time he would get his preferred fast ground.