WHAT a sire Pivotal (Polar Falcon) has been at Cheveley Park Stud. Winner as a three-year-old of the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes and the Group 2 King’s Stand Stakes, he has been an outstanding sire of winners and is now among the elite of broodmare sires too.

He is the leading broodmare sire this year thanks, among many, to the exploits of such as Cracksman (Frankel) and Rhododendron (Galileo). His own stock in 2018 include a pair of new Group 1 winners; Blair House who won the Jebel Hatta, and this week’s Sussex Stakes hero Lightning Spear, one of the first new stallions announced for 2019 when he retires to Tweenhills Stud.