THE Sadler’s Wells (by Northern Dancer) sire line had another prolific weekend of success last week and the winners that represented it included Sternrubin, the Philip Hobbs-trained four-year-old who dead-heated with Jolly’s Cracked It (by Astarabad) in the Grade 3 The Ladbroke (Handicap Hurdle) over a few yards short of two miles at Ascot.

Bred in Germany by Gestut Karlshof, he is a son of the Derby winner and Haras du Logis stallion Authorized (by Montjeu), the horse whose flat stars include the Group 1 winners Ambivalent, Complacent, Hartnell, and Seal Of Approval, and whose jumpers feature the five-times Grade 1 winner Nichols Canyon.