NIGHT Of Thunder made a flying start to his stallion career, with the days of his £15,000 fee soon to become a distant memory. He stands for a second year at a high of €100,000, and his reputation grows year on year.

He made the breakthrough at Group 1 level in 2021, and did so twice. Kukeracha won the Group 1 Queensland Derby over 12 furlongs in Australia a month before his daughter Thundering Nights took the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes over two furlongs less at the Curragh. Both were foaled in 2017, from the sire’s first crop in each hemisphere, but the star of that European crop was yet to appear.