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Kentucky Sires for 2021: Fourth-Crop Stallions Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 9:37 am | Back to: Shared News Updated: January 26, 2021 at 9:38 am Chris McGrath What a tough game this is. You only get to show the first card in your hand before virtually the whole pile of chips is distributed. One or two players gather up their winnings, whooping triumphantly, and suddenly your own hopes of staying in the game–your hopes of a viable stud career in Kentucky–depend exorbitantly on the next card. Generally speaking, it doesn't matter if you turn out to have had a whole sheaf of aces farther into...

Chris McGrath The stallions we reach today are the first actually to have given some initial clue as to their ability to replicate those assets that earned them a place at stud. True, only their most precocious stock have so far tested the water and it should be obvious that limited conclusions can be drawn from so small a sample of their work. But we know the apathy of commercial breeders about producing racehorses. So long as they maximize their value as yearlings, the rest is gravy. That's why they get behind stallions yet to expose the flimsy parapets of marketing to the unsparing fire of...