Territories

For the stallions with first-crop 2-year-olds of 2020, the guessing game is effectively over. The market has offered up its opinions at the foal and yearling levels--for some, reputations have been enhanced even before their firstborns bore tack. For others, the market has nearly already decided their fate. Irrespective of what happened in the ring, however, a great many first-crop 2-year-olds are now in the hands of their trainers, and we have just mere months to wait before the most precocious of those begin to show their hands. In the...

Despite the very considerable efforts of the Sadler's Wells male line, the leading sires list in Britain and Ireland is a forceful reminder that the most dominant force at present is the male line descending from the magnificent Danzig. Thanks entirely to his sons Danehill and Green Desert, the legendary Claiborne sire has no fewer than eight grandsons among the top 18 stallions on the Racing Post's table, plus two in–form great grandsons in Mastercraftsman and Sea The Stars. While it is the Danehill branch which is responsible for five...