LAST Kingdom this week became the latest group winner from the first crop of Frankel. The unbeaten champion who stands at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket can simply do no wrong. Could he add an Irish Derby winner to his tally this weekend?

With Soul Stirring becoming his first Group 1 winner in Japan, he has added Group 2 winner Queen Kindly and seven Group 3 winners to his tally – all from that first crop. Throw in the blacktype winner Mori, the classic-placed Cracksman and the group-placed Count Octave, Dream Castle, Lady Frankel and Mirage Dancer, and it is fair to say that few sires have started their career so well.