SIRE LISTS OF EUROPE Season 2023

Leading Broodmare Sires of Europe

Leading 2YO Sires of Europe

This listing of the leading sires of Europe by earnings includes stakes performance (shown in brackets), and percentages are given for winners to runners, stakeswinners to runners and total stakeshorses (winners and placegetters) to runners. The top earner for each horse is shown with its particular individual earnings. Information in this section is for the season from 1/1/23 to 9/7/23 and includes prizemoney paid from bonus schemes. • Denotes 1st season sire ahead of his Newmarket rival Dubawi. Though they may be rivals in one sense, Frankel and Dubawi in partnership as sire and broodmare sire are turning out to be a potent force. Both Mostahdaf and the Prince of Wales’s third home and former Derby and King George winner Adayar are excellent examples of a cross that will have plenty of future opportunities. Right now, there are eight Stakes winners (25%) and five Group winners (16%), also featuring Gr1 winner Homeless Songs, from just 32 runners with the cross, so who can argue with percentages like that?

Frankel is currently well clear of his rivals by number of Stakes winners, but the battle for second is a whole lot tighter between Dubawi and Kingman. Darley’s Dubawi has 11 so far, but his fortunes tend to be tied to how Godolphin is performing and that operation when through Royal Ascot without a winner. Moreover, Dubawi’s current three-yearold crop features only four Stakes winners so far this year, the best being a pair of Gr3-winning fillies in Never Ending Story and Ottery.

Kingman meanwhile sired Gr3 Jersey Stakes winner Age Of Kings at Royal Ascot. He is enjoying a flourish this year and it was expected as his current set of three-year-olds are from his best book of mares, conceived after his debut juveniles showed up so well. Breeders have been keeping an eye on Kingman since this time last year and it has to be conceded that the son of Invincible Spirit has come up with plenty of classy winners from this well-endowed crop, headed by the ill-fated Commissioning, the Gr1 Fillies’ Mile heroine who suffered a career-ending injury before she had an opportunity to show us how good she was this year. He also lost another of his potential stars, the Dewhurst third Nostrum, to an earlyseason setback. Nevertheless, Kingman has already posted 12 Stakes winners from his 2020 crop and it’s very likely that this will eventually be his most successful one, eclipsing the 18 Stakes winners from his first and 17 from his second. Like all expensive stallions, the challenge for Kingman is to find another as good as Palace Pier from among this crop. It was a fine achievement to have Age Of Kings win at the Royal meeting and have two daughters, Remarquee and Sounds of Heaven finish second and third to Tahiyra in the Gr1 Coronation Stakes at Ascot.

His impressive credentials were enhanced even further with King Colorado’s win in the Gr1 BRC JJ Atkins 1600m which saw