Third Crop Superfecta

By Bill Oppenheim

When Darley spent an estimated $200-million acquiring stallion prospects for the 2008 season (first crop 2009), this is the result they were after: if you click here to view the TDN 2013 Third-Crop Year-to-Date Sire List, the top four names are all horses Darley scooped up, mostly in its 2007 stallion prospect spending spree. The current third-crop leader was an…