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City of Light was the buzzed-about stallion at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale with the top-selling of any first-crop sire. Now, his first yearlings are making their way to New York for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. We spoke with Lane's End's Allaire Ryan on the eye-catching son of Quality Road.

Mendelssohn, a half-brother to leading sire Into Mischief and champion Beholder, was a popular addition to Ashford Stud. The champion bred almost 500 mares in his first two years in the breeding shed. We spoke with Coolmore's Adrian Wallace on the son of Scat Daddy and visited a few members of his first crop of yearlings.

While it is not unheard of for Curlin to have a top-performing juvenile, it is a rarity. According to John Moynihan, that's what makes 2017 Eclipse Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Good Magic special. "The most unique thing with Good Magic is that he was so precocious," the Stonestreet bloodstock advisor noted. "People expect Curlin to get durability and ruggedness, horses that run far, Classic-type horses. But a lot of times those Classic-type horses don't also come in the form of early, precocious horses and I think that's what sets Good Magic...

Eamon Moloney of Darley speaks to TDN's Alayna Cullen about the recent run of successes for Night of Thunder.

West Coast, a dominating performer in the 2017 GI Travers S. and the recipient of that year's Eclipse 3-Year-Old Male Champion trophy, will see his first crop of yearlings go to market this year. We visited the son of Flatter at Lane's End and spoke with the farm's Bill Farish, as well as agent Renee Dailey, on the trends they're seeing in his young progeny.

The first crop of yearlings from first-crop yearling sire Bolt d'Oro have been in high demand. We check in with Spendthrift's Mark Toothaker, as well as a few yearling consignors, on the trends they're seeing in the promising youngsters from the dual Grade I winner.

Grade I winner and $3 million earner Collected will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at the upcoming sales this year. While the 2017 Pacific Classic S. winner is often likened to internationally influential sire Blushing Groom, an important member of the young sire's female family, breeders are finding that young progeny from Collected's first crops reflect the physical of their grandsire, the late perennial leading sire City Zip.

David Ingordo has undoubtedly inspected thousands of yearlings, many of whom went on to become Ingordo-purchased success stories, since he saw Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky) at the 2014 Keeneland September Sale. Nevertheless, the well-respected agent has a vivid memory of seeing Hip 1162 at the Bluewater Sales consignment, a May-foaled son of the stakes-placed Awesome Again mare Issues. Flash forward seven years after Ingordo purchased the yearling colt for $380,000, and Accelerate is now an Eclipse-earning, Breeders' Cup Classic-winning Lane's End sire with first yearlings hitting the market this summer.

This year, Essential Quality's victory in the Belmont S. gave Tapit his fourth winner in the Test of the Champion. One of the champion sire's other Belmont-winning sons Tapwrit will have his first crop of yearlings hit the market this year. Gainesway's Sean Tugel said that he believes Tapwrit is throwing his good-looking physical on to his first crops and that many of his yearlings reflect the balance and athleticism seen in their grandsire Tapit.

First Derby Winner for Frankel

Foaling Around With Laurens

Following the sudden passing of Spendthrift foundation sire Malibu Moon, much has been said on his accomplishments at stud. The perennial leading sire has had 126 stakes winners, 51 graded winners and 17 Grade I winners. He's the sire of a Kentucky winner in Orb and an Eclipse Champion in Declan's Moon. As a broodmare sire, he has produced champion Stellar Wind (Curlin) and Breeders' Cup runner-up Bellafina (Quality Road). Just yesterday, he had his 21st 'TDN Rising Star' with Always Carina. To Spendthrift's Stallion Manager Wayne Howard, those stats...