WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016 FIRST FOALS 2009-2012 number of A Runners and ABC Runners--there is not one sire who dominates proceedings, as is sometimes the case. Dark by Bill Oppenheim Angel (2.64) is the leading F2009 sire by the most important measurement, the A Runner Index, and also ranks among the top five F2009 sires in the other three categories. Scat Daddy (2.52) is second by A Runner Index, and tied with Teofilo as the leading sire of A Runners, with 37 each; keep in mind that an individual horse by an F2009 sire could be counted as many as five year-starters and five A Runners, depending on how many years the horse raced and what earnings level it achieved in each of those years. The 2007 GI Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense didn’t top any of the four categories, but ranks second by ABC Index (1.87, which is 15% of runners), and second by number of ABC Runners (109). Cont. p3 Street Sense last week at the Darley open house | Brittlan Wall Tracking the progress of young sires is obviously one of the AMERICAN PHAROAH CROWNED AGAIN most important aspects of the APEX (Annual Progeny Earnings Fresh off a lucrative night at the Eclipse Awards, team indeX) ratings. Usually we focus on the two most recent sire American Pharoah was in London Tuesday to accept the crops rated, which in this case would be F2011 (third-crop sires Longines World's Best Racehorse award. of 2015) and F2012 (second-crop) sires. In order to provide a Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. little context for commenting on these two rather small crops of North American and European sires (76 F2011 sires, 69 F2012 sires, no doubt a direct consequence of the financial crash of 2008), this time we are also reviewing 82 F2009 sires (first foals 6-year-olds of 2015, five crops racing) and 81 F2010 sires (first foals 5-year-olds of 2015, four crops racing). So these four crops constitute 308 of the 820 APEX sires at year-end 2015. The reason why the F2009 crop is so relevant is that there is a wide spread of successful sires among this group. Darley had spent an estimated $200-million in acquiring top stallion prospects in 2006-07, especially including most of the available top 3-year-olds of 2007. Three of those Darley sires rank among the top five NA-EU F2009 sires: Darley Kentucky sires Street Sense and Hard Spun, and Darley Kildangan (Ireland) sire Teofilo. The other two top F2009 sires are Ireland’s Morristown Lattin Stud’s Dark Angel and Coolmore Ashford’s Scat Daddy, who was due to stand for a crop-leading $100,000 in 2016 but most unfortunately died late in 2015. 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European Editor: Emma Berry [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JAN. 20, 2016 INTO MISCHIEF, CURLIN TOP F2010 NA-EU SIRES Spendthrift’s Into Mischief has been a total revelation from four small crops averaging 35 foals and ranks second among 448 NA-EU sires with an A Runner Index of 4.07, second only to the mighty Galileo (4.09). With as many 2-year-olds of 2016 as in his First Foals 2009-2012 cont. from p1 first four crops combined it will be difficult for him to sustain Hard Spun (117) is the leading F2009 sire by number of ABC such a high rating, but he has sure risen from obscurity to rate Runners, while Teofilo, besides tying Scat Daddy for the lead by as a serious sire, and number of A Runners, also ranks among the top six F2009 sires these bigger crops in all four categories. will also certainly At least four other F2009 sires receive honorable mention. The improve his chances French sire Kendargent, who stands at the Haras de Colleville, is of really becoming a the leading F2009 NA-EU sire by ABC Runner Index (2.05), and major sire. He also also ranks number seven in the sire crop by A Runner Index leads F2010 sires by (2.12); he has a seriously good 2.94 rating for 2-year-olds by ABC ABC Runner Index Index, as well as a very strong 2.36 ABC Index for 3-year-olds. (2.15). Calumet’s English Channel (2.49) ranks fourth by A Runner Curlin, in whom a Index, and ranks among the group’s top 10 in the other three Into Mischief | Brittlan Wall photo 20% interest was categories. The English sire Dutch Art, who stands at Cheveley reportedly sold for Park Stud, ranks between seventh and 11th in all four over $6-million, triggering a move to Hill ’n’ Dale from Lane’s categories, while another Darley Kentucky sire, Discreet Cat, has End and a big jump in stud fee from $35,000 to $100,000, is a 2.07 A Runner Index (eighth among F2009 sires) and ranks another of the four F2010 NA-EU sires with an A Runner Index among the top 10 F2009 sires by number of both A Runners and over 2.00, and one of three with an ABC Runner Index over 2.00; ABC Runners. Click here for the entire F2009 table. those figures are 2.12 A Index, and 2.10 ABC Index. Cont. p4 HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • JAN. 20, 2016 He tops F2010 sires with 22 A Runners, and is miles ahead by number of ABC Runners, with 87; Darley’s New Approach is a distant second in that category, with 56. Into Mischief’s 4.07 A Index, and Curlin’s 87 ABC Runners, are both very striking performances in the context of the entire population of North American and European sires. Also over 2.00 A Runner Index among NA-EU F2010 sires are New York's Keane Stud’s Frost Giant (2.61) and Hill ’n’ Dale’s Midnight Lute (2.27). Frost Giant also has a 2.12 ABC Runner Index, Midnight Lute | Brittlan Wall photo though the rich New York-bred program undoubtedly helps his figures. In terms of A Runners, as mentioned Curlin leads the group with 22; Midnight Lute is tied with former Spendthrift sire Tiz Wonderful, now in Korea, with 18 each. Into Mischief has 17, with Darley’s New Approach on 16. In terms of ABC Runners, Curlin 87, New Approach 56, as mentioned; Tiz Wonderful has sired 53 ABC Runners, Midnight Lute 50. Click here for the F2010 table. F2011 SIRES: FOUR EUROS AND A PIONEER The reverberations of the world financial crash of 2008 saw prices in the Thoroughbred business plunge for almost exactly 12 months to the day, from the end of the Keeneland September Sale of 2008 to the end of the Keeneland September Sale of 2009.