A TOP-CLASS and consistent performer who won five races and was only once out of the first four in nine starts, Awtaad should be very popular with Irish breeders at his modest fee of €15,000 in his first season at Derrinstown Stud. He was completing a four-timer when he defeated Galileo Gold in the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas last May and his excellent pedigree makes him a good outcross.