Last week I was lamenting the fact that certain good stallions spend a season or two in Australia, prove successful (or run into other obstacles), then never return. Another issue is the stallions we never actually get to see in Australia. One example of this is Mozart.

Analysing the end of season sire stats for UK/Europe, we again saw Danehill crowned champion sire, his three-year-old son Oratorio being the main contributor to his success over Montjeu whose first crop of three-year-olds included the Arc winner Hurricane Run, the Derby winner Motivator and St Leger winner Scorpion.

Others prominent in the standings familiar to those in the Southern Hemisphere are Giant's Causeway, Spectrum, Cape Cross, Singspiel and Anabaa.

But what caught the eye was the first season sire down in 90th position. And with a result that good one can't help but wonder how suited Mozart would have been to Australia?

A son of Danehill, Mozart became champion European sprinter as a three-year-old with wins in the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot before wins against the older horses in the July Cup at Newmarket and the Nunthorpe at York.

Mozart certainly had marketability written all over him

And judging by his first crop he may well have been a sire sensation in the making.

Of the 67 Mozart yearlings offered 50 were sold, averaging 63,000 guineas for the colts and 35,000 guineas for the fillies of which there were 18 individual winners of 26 races, including three stakeswinners and seven stakes performers.

Amadeus Wolf, purchased for €87,000 as a yearling before being bought back for 50,000 guineas at the Tattersalls Two-Year-Old Breeze Up Sale proved the best with his win in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket and is already high on many lists to return in winning form to the same course in this year's 2000 Guineas.

His other stakeswinners were Modeeroch and Dandy Man while Aidan O'Brien also appears to have a smart one in Amadeus Mozart, second to George Washington in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes in Ireland on his fourth and final run as a two-year-old.

Unfortunately Mozart served only one season at Coolmore in Ireland before dying in 2002 aged just four. So, in terms of "what could have been" - in the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere - we'll never really know.