WHEN Dermot Cantillon purchased Russian Society, a stakes-placed daughter of Darshaan (Shirley Heights), for 24,000gns in 2015, he possibly was hoping to produce a champion with the foal she was carrying, a daughter of Poet’s Voice (Dubawi).

After all, isn’t that what we all hope to do, not matter what our means, and both sides of Russian Society’s pedigree were packed with quality. The Group 1 winning miler Poet’s Voice was represented at the time by his first two-year-olds, a crop that was to include dual Group 1 winner and now Boardsmill Stud stallion Poet’s Word, and the Italian classic winner Poeta Diletto, while the stallion’s first southern hemisphere crop gave us the Group 1 winner Trap For Fools.