PACO Boy (by Desert Style) is among the new sires of 2014 who have shown plenty of promise, and his tally of more than 20 individual winners includes seven blacktype earners, of whom two have won at pattern level.

Beacon won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster in September, and, at Newbury last Saturday, Smaih took the Group 3 Worthington’s Whizz Kidz Stakes (registered as the Horris Hill Stakes) over seven furlongs at Newbury.