American breeding stock sales

In some respects, it feels culpably parochial to sieve the forthcoming breeding stock sales in Kentucky for mares of blatant interest to European prospectors. After a generation of insularity, you would hope that a few more people in the Old World may now be renewing their respect for "dirt" blood now that an American Triple Crown winner has come up with a European champion juvenile in only his second crop. But even those who remain benighted in their mistrust of speed-carrying American lines have much to consider in the catalogues...