HAWAI Game won the opening race at Naas on Thursday and he could well become a poster boy in the months to come for his sire, Kilbarry Lodge Stud’s Diamond Boy. The 15-year-old son of Mansonnien (Tip Moss) has just completed his fourth season at stud, and those first four years have seen him cover more than 580 mares, his biggest books in Ireland being his first two.

He had small books previously in France but he did well with his runners there. That said, his best performer to date has been Grand Sancy. He beat Sceau Royal in the Grade 2 Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton shortly after finishing a half-length runner-up to Elixir De Nutz in the Grade 1 Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle, and he is a Grade 1-placed, listed winner over fences for the Paul Nicholls team. He is due to run at Ascot today.