By Bill Oppenheim
It was not very many years ago that winter meant a complete shutdown of flat racing in Britain and Ireland, with only Cagnes-sur-Mer keeping the doors open in France. When that was the case, we could forget about tracking European second-crop sires, whose first foals were about to begin racing at three, until pretty much mid-April at the earliest.
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