SPENDTHRIFT Farm’s Yaupon (Uncle Mo) and Tally-Ho Stud’s Starman (Dutch Art) were both born in 2017 and were unraced at two, but yet are the leaders in the USA and Europe with their first crops of racing age in 2025. Both horses raced eight times, produced their best results at the age of four, and have shown that precociousness in sires does not require them to be early types at two themselves.

Yaupon stretched to seven furlongs once to win the Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga, but his other five victories were gained over six furlongs, including the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga and the Grade 3 Chick Lang Stakes at Pimlico. Meanwhile Starman, who won five of his eight starts, raced almost exclusively over six, though he went half a furlong more to finish third in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville, and he would have been the winner had the race been over six!