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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...

For all the round-the-clock pedigree scrutiny and conformation analysis that goes into finding a stallion that will produce a winner on the first Saturday in May, it took a horse standing for $5,000 and lacking that coveted Grade I win on their race record to get the job done. Of the 26 fifth-year stallions standing in Kentucky today, Protonico was one of five to breed less than 20 mares last year. And yet, here he is now sitting atop the Leading Second-Crop Sires list after his son Medina Spirit charged...

200 and Counting for Dubawi

He may not be flashiest sire on the Darley stud roster, but the quietly efficacious Midshipman (Unbridled's Song- Fleet Lady, by Avenue of Flags) might just be the most consistent. He ranks second amongst his studmates, behind Jonabell's elder statesman Medaglia d'Oro, in terms of blacktype runners to named foals at over a 12% clip, and his $7,500 stud fee this year only adds to his appeal. This year, Midshipman's runners are shining at the highest level. His progeny have already collected five blacktype wins with potential for bigger things...

"He was one of those horses that there was a buzz about before he ever stepped foot on a racetrack," Airdrie Stud's Bret Jones said of their new addition in Grade I-winning 'TDN Rising Star' Complexity (Maclean's Music). The 2018 Champagne S. hero will kick off his stud career fully booked off a $12,500 fee.

The buzz started around this time last year. The first crop of 2-year-olds from Sequel New York's Laoban were fast. One banner weekend at Keeneland's fall meet last year helped seal his destined Bluegrass move. First his daughter Simply Ravishing takes the GI Darley Alcibiades by over six lengths. Then the next day, his son Keepmeinmind runs second to Essential Quality (Tapit) in the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity. Later that month, it was announced that Laoban would be relocating to WinStar Farm. Read more on the TDN: https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/laoban-receives-warm-bluegrass-welcome/

A wise man changes his mind, but a fool never will. Such is the association between the commercial market and Daredevil (More Than Ready-- Chasethewildwind, by Forestry). Luckily for the third-crop sire, the market was quick to change its opinion and Lane's End jumped on the opportunity to bring him back. The son of More Than Ready has returned from his season abroad and will stand at Lane's End for $25,000 in 2021 as property of the Jockey Club of Turkey. Read more on the TDN:  https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/daredevils-audacious-return/