Luca Cumani may have had an “inkling” earlier in the year that a parting of the ways could come with Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum, owner of King George winner and leading Arc contender Postponed.

HIGH-RISE, winner of the 1998 Derby, has returned to the country of his birth to continue his stud career at Paddy Byrne’s Park House Stud in Tullow, Carlow.