Gustav Klimt

Coolmore has announced the "No Group Winner, No Fee" incentive for breeders whereby if they use Gustav Klimt (Ire) in 2021, they will receive their nomination free of charge if the sire does not provide a group or graded winner by the end of October next year. "Gustav Klimt was a brilliant 2-year-old," said Mark Byrne of Coolmore Stud. "He is Galileo's highest-rated performer over six furlongs and is a sibling to four stakes-winning 2-year-olds. Not only that, he's out of a stakes-winning juvenile and is from the family of...

In the third installation of our Value Sires series, we will dig into the sire crop with its first foals born in 2020, and therefore with its first yearlings this year. After some two years in waiting since most of these retired to stud, the judges got the chance at the recently concluded foal sales to lay eyes on the first progeny of most of them, and though it is still incredibly early days, their opinions, corroborated through their actions in the ring, will have an impact on the perception...