THE list of current first season sires with a pattern winner in their first crop got another name added to last Saturday when Steip Amach, a daughter of Redmondstown Stud’s Vocalised (by Vindication), sprang a surprise in the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes over seven furlongs at Leopardstown.

Her regally-related sire won the Group 3 Tetrarch Stakes, the Group 3 Greenham Stakes, and the Listed Loughbrown Stakes as a three-year-old, and his first crop runners also include the Sligo and Roscommon winners Vocal Nation and Vocaliser.