Day 4 runner for former Aussie sprinter.
The presence of stallions bred in Australia in Royal Ascot form guides this week has been common, with Zoustar and Starspangledbanner in particular to the fore.
The latter threw one of the most impressive winners of the week, Gstaad, who raced away from his rivals in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes on Day 2.
One sire who did his racing in Australia that we don't see in local form guides too often is Counterattack.
That son of Redoute's Choice, who is a half-brother to Group 1 winners Red Tracer and Shellscrape, has See Hector in the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes (2414m), which is the third race on Friday night's card.
The six-year-old is now trained by Jamie Osborne, with whom he has had four runs, but was previously trained in Germany, which is where Counterattack has done the bulk of his work as a stallion.
He stood just one season in Australia after the curtain was drawn on a racing career that saw three Stakes wins, the biggest of which was the Group 3 Fred Best Classic, and three Group 1 placings.
He covered 49 mares at Kitchwin Hills for 38 foals, who are six years old now with his two Australian winners this year being Fourcade, who has wins at Goulburn and Queanbeyan, and Power Sister, whose 2025 wins have come at Blackall, Barcaldine and Longreach.
They are among 64 Australian wins for Counterattack, whose majority of winners have come in Europe. He has had 85 wins spread across Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
His most prolific winner is Subutai, a 12-time winner in Turkey, while Hold On Honey has recorded the most wins of any of his progeny in his homeland with eight.
See Hector has claims on being considered his best product, with all three of his wins having come at Group 3 level in Germany and Italy, including a Racing And Sports peak rating of 112 in the most recent of them, the Fritz Henkel Preis (1609m) at Dusseldorf.
See Hector is one of the outsiders in the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes, which includes others related to horses Aussie racing fans would be familiar with.
The Johnny Murtagh-trained Siege Of Troy is a half-brother to Buckaroo and Middle Earth, while Teumessias Fox is a half-brother to Puissance De Lune.
A couple of others are half-brothers to horses who have made their mark on Royal Ascot in years gone by with Naqeeb a half to 2022 Queen Anne Stakes winner Baaeed and Mutaawid the brother of 2023 Prince Of Wales's Stakes winner Mostahdaf.
