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Names to note in assessing the first-season sire class of 2024

Kitty Trice with a septet of sires who were among those to do well with their first runners

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Hello Youmzain: one of the picks from the first-season sires of 2024Credit: Haras d'Etreham

Sergei Prokofiev
Whitsbury Manor Stud; 2025 fee £8,000
2024 winners/runners: 23-63; prize-money: £592,223

Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Group 3 winner by Scat Daddy led the way in 2024 on both winners and prize-money.

Generally second favourite to win the first-season sires’ title race at the start of the year, he justified that billing with 23 winners headed by Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes winner Arizona Blaze, who was second in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint and third in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes. 

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