They were White Birch (Tattersalls Gold Cup, Mooresbridge Stakes and Alleged Stakes), Passenger (Huxley Stakes), Holloway Boy (Superior Mile), Mighty Ulysses (Moonga Stakes) and Wendla (Mutamakina Stakes).

The son of Epsom Classic winners Galileo and Light Shift is also responsible for Irish Derby runner-up Piz Badile, Tapster Stakes winner Peripatetic and Group-placed two-year-olds Elsie’s Ruan, Gwan So and Oddyssey.

He has several promising two-year-olds to his name too, including Protest, Regal Ulixes and Surprised.

Ulysses will stand at Cheveley Park Stud next year at a fee of £8,000.

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