Their stallions have included six of the last dozen winners of that race, Rock Of Gibraltar, Excellent Art, Henrythenavigator, Mastercraftsman, Canford Cliffs and now Most Improved, who starts covering at Castle Hyde Stud this spring at the very reasonable fee of €6,000.

Undoubtedly the best son to date of the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club hero Lawman, Most Improved was one of the best two-year-olds of 2011, when he was rated on 115 in the World Rankings, only 4lb below the champion juvenile Camelot. He has a top-class pedigree, being a half-brother to Ectot, a Group 1-winning two-year-old in France in 2013.