It is time to pay homage to the Emirates Park Stud stalwart Al Maher with his most accomplished son, Private Eye, striving to break a year-long drought when defending his title in the $1,000,000 Group II Yarraman Park The Shorts (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Yarraman Park are accustomed to seeing their champion sire I Am Invincible at the top of the Australian sire table, but the performance of his top class son Hellbent this season has been a source of pride for the Mitchell family.