SHAADI was a high-class three-year-old colt in 1989. Bought for $900,000 as a yearling by Sheikh Mohammed, he was born towards the end of May but showed even at two that he was a colt of above-average ability. A son Danzig and out of a daughter of Hoist The Flag, he went on at three to land the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot after winning the Irish 2000 Guineas.

Though he had enough opportunities at stud in England and Japan, overall he was a disappointment as a stallion. Today he is probably best remembered as the broodmare sire of the Dubai World Cup winner Moon Ballad. Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Shaadi was ridden in all his races by Walter Swinburn.

Now a second Group or Grade 1 winner has emerged from this family and that is Royal Vacation.

The six-year-old son of King’s Theatre won the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton and gave owner Jean Bishop plenty of compensation for the defeat of Cue Card on the day. Victory for Royal Vacation provided his Foxhound dam Summer Break with a second blacktype winner over jumps.

Bred by Tim Hegarty, Royal Vacation was sold through Ballincurrig House Stud for €30,000 as a foal at Tattersalls Ireland to Aiden Murphy, and resold at the 2013 Derby Sale from Goldford Stud to Aiden Kennedy for €90,000.

Summer Break was certainly a sound racemare, running no fewer than 40 times. Bred by Tony Mullins, and trained by him for some of her career, she won at two and three years on the flat and then added two more victories over hurdles. She was placed in the Grade 3 Fairyhouse Juvenile Hurdle.

Her first foal was the Oscar gelding Delphi Mountain and he won over hurdles, fences and in point-to-points and came close to being another blacktype winner for his dam when runner-up in a Grade 3 race over hurdles at Listowel.

Born a year later was the Milan gelding Ahyaknowyerself and he won a listed hurdle race at Market Rasen in 2013 and was placed in a Grade 2 the same year.

Royal Vacation is his dam’s third gelding, runner and winner and the best of her offspring to date. Summer Break has three unraced daughters at stud, two by Presenting and one by Flemensfirth, while waiting in the wings are a two-year-old Yeats filly and a yearling daughter by Milan.

Summer Break is one of five winners from the flat and hurdle winner Out In The Sun, an American-bred daughter of It’s Freezing, and the others include the Eagle Eyed mare Aquila Osculus, listed-placed on the flat a few times and placed in the Grade 2 Lartigue Hurdle at Listowel. Her son Namid was placed in the Pune Derby and the Mysore 2000 Guineas this year in India.

Out In The Sun is one of eight winners out of the stakes-placed Unbiased, a half-sister to Shaadi and a full-sister to Pleasure Cay, a multiple stakes winner in the USA who was fourth in 1984 in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint.