Guy Heald

Over the last three years Frankel (GB) and Dubawi (Ire) have handed the sires' championship back and forth between each other, and they rule supreme as the two most expensive stallions in the world this year at £350,000. While Darley's Dubawi duly provided the winner of the first British Classic of the season when Notable Speech (GB) became his fourth in that particular race - an achievement that is unrivalled in the post-war era - it was Frankel's Juddmonte friend and rival Kingman (GB) who had the bragging rights on...

During a long, hot summer, one family which has been blooming rather than wilting is that of Soho Rose (Ire), a daughter of Hernando (Fr) who has been represented by two Group 2-winning offspring in the last three weeks. The mare's 4-year-old daughter Sea La Rosa (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) struck first in the G2 Lillie Langtry S. at Glorious Goodwood having already landed the G3 Pinnacle S. in May, and she was followed by her full-brother Deauville Legend (Ire) in Wednesday's G2 Voltigeur S. He too was backing...