THE Group 3 William Hill Firth of Clyde Stakes, over six furlongs at Ayr last Saturday, was also a success story for first season sires with three of them supplying fillies who made the top four placings.

Royal Razalma (by Lope De Vega) finished fourth, and so just missed out on blacktype, and she was beaten less than three lengths by Dark Reckoning (by Equiano) and Parsley (by Zebedee) who were only a short-head apart at the line.