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All change?
There are two new names at the top of the NH sires’ table:
will they still be there
cAGLANCE AT THE NH stallion tables last autumn looked pretty similar to the last few years – leading the way were the usual crew of Flemensfirth, King’s Theatre, Presenting, Beneficial and Stowaway. Stallions that were either unfortunately already dead or nearing the pensioner ranks.
ome the end of April?
Through the mid-winter period of this NH season, however there has been a change of guard and two young names have made their way to the top of the tables. Both are, perhaps unsurprisingly, Coolmore-based sires – Milan and Yeats.
Both have made their way to the leader ranks on the NH prize-money tables without the benefit of Grade 1 Christmas winners.
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...the upward moves by both Milan and
Yeats are not
a shock – the two stallions have been putting
in consistently improving performances
In a way, the upward moves by both Milan and Yeats are not a shock – the two stallions have been putting in consistently improving performances on the sires’ table for the last few years with Milan achieving a top five sires’ status since the 2015-17 season, while younger Yeats steadily moving his way up the ladder.
In fact, in a NH piece we helped produce in the autumn for Weatherbys, we identified even at the early stages of the 2019-2020 season Yeats was on target for his best-ever result.
Yeats (Sadler’s Wells), the 2001-born four- time Ascot Gold Cup winner, is the youngest NH sire in the top 15, aside from Getaway (2003).
His first three-year-old jumps crop