Next to answer our questions is breeder, pinhooker and TBA vice-chair Kate Sigsworth, who manages her family's West Moor Stud in Yorkshire.
What are your goals for 2024?
Professionally: Happy, healthy horses and owners. Good, healthy foals and mares back in foal. Personally: To get my house built – a sealed shell by the end of the year would be great.
Give us a horse to follow…
Nemov (GB) (Blue Point {Ire} – Barynya {GB}). A big horse, trained by Clive Cox, who made a very promising debut in an above-average all-weather race. Looks an exciting sort.
And a young person in the industry to keep an eye on…
Finn Kent of Mickley Stud.
Who do you think will be champion first-season sire in 2024?
Pinatubo (Ire). A brilliant two-year-old himself, a son of Shamardal like this year's leading first-season sire in Blue Point, and he should have plenty of horses to run for him.
And the best value stallion in Ireland, England, and France?
Calyx (GB), Study Of Man (Ire) and Bay Bridge (GB).
Your best buy/sale of 2023?
A strong, good-looking colt by Space Blues (Ire) out of Jameerah (GB) (Dansili {GB}) at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
Who is or was the perfect Thoroughbred?
I'm still searching but Urban Sea (Miswaki) would have to come pretty close.
Biggest professional regret?
No regrets, keep learning and looking forward, tomorrow will be better.
If you could be someone else in the industry for a day who would it be, and why?
Paul McCartan, the warmest, nicest person you could come across and second to none at selecting broodmares and breeding. I'd love to know what he sees and how he interprets what he's seeing.
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