nh racing
All change?
There are two new names at the top of the NH sires’ table: will they still be there come the end of April?
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GLANCE AT THE NH stallion tables last autumn looked pretty similar to the last few years – leading the way were the usual crew of Flemensfirth, King’s Theatre, Presenting, Beneficial and Stowaway. Stallions that were either unfortunately already dead or nearing the pensioner ranks. Through the mid-winter period of this NH season, however there has been a change of guard and two young names have made their way to the top of the tables. Both are, perhaps unsurprisingly, Coolmore-based sires – Milan and Yeats. Both have made their way to the leader ranks on the NH prize-money tables without the benefit of Grade 1 Christmas winners.
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...the upward moves by both Milan and Yeats are not a shock – the two stallions have been putting in consistently improving performances
In a way, the upward moves by both Milan and Yeats are not a shock – the two stallions have been putting in consistently improving performances on the sires’ table for the last few years with Milan achieving a top five sires’ status since the 2015-17 season, while younger Yeats steadily moving his way up the ladder. In fact, in a NH piece we helped produce in the autumn for Weatherbys, we identified even at the early stages of the 2019-2020 season Yeats was on target for his best-ever result. Yeats (Sadler’s Wells), the 2001-born fourtime Ascot Gold Cup winner, is the youngest NH sire in the top 15, aside from Getaway (2003). His first three-year-old jumps crop
