I HAD the pleasure of the company of Sybille Gibson at dinner in Chantilly before the Arc weekend, and she told me she would have some stallion news soon. It came too late for publication last weekend but she will be introducing a new stallion to the roster at Haras de Montaigu, where she is the fifth generation of her family to run the Normandy farm.

Already home to Champion Stakes winner Literato (sire of Grade 1 winner Alterite), Group 2 winner Martaline (a multiple stakes sire), No Risk At All (whose first progeny are two-year-olds and whose stock have been bought by Highflyer Bloodstock, Aiden Murphy and Trickledown Stud) and the new sire for 2016, Prince Of Gibraltar who won Group 1 races at two and four, the busy stud will welcome Night Wish in 2017.