RATHBARRY Stud’s Group 2-winning sprinter Acclamation (by Royal Applause) has been a considerable success since taking up stallion duties, and of his growing number of sons at stud, two have had runners.

Dual Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes hero Equiano is a first season sire at Newsells Park Stud, and notched up his first pattern winner last Saturday, and juvenile Group 1 star Dark Angel, whose oldest progeny are five, is well-established as a source of pattern and stakes winners.