Top of the Crop

We’ve long taken the view that we don’t really have a very firm idea of where a sire figures in the scheme of things until the end of the year its first 4-year-olds have raced. Of course commercial pressures require us to take a view once a sire has runnersat all–especially if they do well early–which is a big disadvantage to sires of late-maturing, but often very good, racehorses (Affirmed). Or, sometimes a sire will just have a duff…