TWO of the most genuine, soundest, most admirable horses of the last few decades were multiple Group 1 winners Pilsudski and Falbrav. They showed top-class form over a few seasons, rarely missing a beat in group races. And rarely running below form. The type of horse we should be trying to reproduce.

Yet you knew on their retiring, they were unlikely ever to be given the patronage at stud to see very many of their progeny in action on the track. Conduit, who now stands as a National Hunt stallion, is a similar case.