NIGHT Of Thunder’s stud fee at Kildangan in 2020 has risen to €25,000, and no wonder. This week Keep Busy became his seventh stakes winner in his first crop when she won the Listed Prix Yacowlef at Chantilly, and this was only a few days after Cacciante was a smart winner of the Listed Premio Rumon at Rome on just his third start.

Look Busy had been catalogued to sell at the recent Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale but she was withdrawn.

How fortuitous that decision was and her value has certainly increased with her stakes win.

Her dam was the ultra-smart sprinter Look busy (Danetime) and the best of her dozen successes were in the Group 2 Temple Stakes at Haydock and the Group 3 Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh.

Look Busy is a half-sister to the champion French juvenile colt and Group 1 Prix Morny winner Unfortunately (Society Rock) who moves from Cheveley Park Stud to stand the 2020 season at Springfield House Stud in Tipperary.

Cacciante was bred by John Weld at his River Downs Stud and sold for just €10,000 as a yearling at Tattersalls Ireland. He was then traded for only £7,000 as a breezer at Ascot, but that has not stopped him becoming a stakes winner – and a timely one at that. His half-brother, a colt foal by Dawn Approach (New Approach) could be the hidden gem on the day when he is offered for sale on November 22nd at Goffs.

Also set to run for the dam Suggest (Raven’s Pass) is a current yearling filly, and she is a full-sister to Cacciante.