sentences:  He was a late foal, being born on 27 April 1917, at the Ballylinch Stud on McAlmont's Mount Juliet estate in Thomastown, County Kilkenny.McCalmont named his horse Tetratema, a choice which was described by one critic as being both "meaningless" and "ugly".He was sired by The Tetrarch an unbeaten horse who was regarded as one of the fastest two-year-old ever seen in Britain and Ireland, but whose career was ended by injury before he could race at three.