2024 First Crop Sires

[tachyon]

Nadal(USA)(Blame) and Saturnalia(JPN)(Lord Kanaloa) are in a close contest for the Champion JRA First Season Sire!!
Admire Mars(JPN)(Daiwa Major) is up there, too.

[CoronadosQuest]

Good for Nadal! I remember being quite bummed when he came off of the Derby trail after his Arkansas Derby win. Nice to see he is doing well in Japan!

[tachyon]

Good for Nadal! I remember being quite bummed when he came off of the Derby trail after his Arkansas Derby win. Nice to see he is doing well in Japan!

Let's hope that Nadal will be represented by his Kentucky Derby contender soon!!

Both of his 2yo colts Quantum Wave(JPN)[o/o Quantum Miss(USA) by Smoke Glacken(USA)] https://en.netkeiba.com/db/horse/2022106395/ and Melchior(JPN)[o/o Sang Real(JPN) by Zenno Rob Roy(JPN)] https://en.netkeiba.com/db/horse/2022104796/ will be pointed next to the Jpn1 Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun 1600m dirt at Kawasaki on December 11th.


-- replay of the Mochinoki Sho won by Quantum Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbPydHKQvc


-- replay of the Platanus Sho won by Melchoir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbIxkqtpjuA

[Northport]

Oh that’s a very handsome face that Quantum Wave has

[HB1994]

Less than $5K in earnings separates Vekoma and McKinzie in the first-crop sire race.

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... istType=c1

Tiz the Law is only about $50K behind McKinzie. Gonna be a tight race this year.

[Northport]

Less than $5K in earnings separates Vekoma and McKinzie in the first-crop sire race.

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... istType=c1

Tiz the Law is only about $50K behind McKinzie. Gonna be a tight race this year.

Makes you wonder how Tiz the Law would've ended up if he hadn't been retired so late in the game. He's doing fantastic considering most top mares would've already had bookings when his retirement was announced.

I know he still covered 159 mares, but in Freshman Coolmore terms, that's about a half full book!