THE Group 1 stallion Zoffany has died at Castlehyde Stud from liver failure. Aged just 13, he has sired a long list of top-class racehorses, most recently the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes winner Thunder Moon.

Bred by Denis Brosnan, the son of Dansili won the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes as a two-year-old and is probably best remembered for giving Frankel the fright of his racing life in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.