STARMAN is the hottest of the sires around who have their first runners this year, while Supremacy has his first stakes winner. When it comes to numbers of winners, and with an impressive one-third of all his runners being so, Nando Parrado (Kodiac) is making his mark throughout Europe.

The Irish National Stud-based leading two-year-old runner is passing on his own precocity to his sons and daughters, and Nando Parrado’s €6,000 fee has remained unchanged during his first four seasons standing at Tully.