IT is far too early to make any predictions about the year ahead for stallions with their first runners, though there are a couple of sires already making waves.

The interim leader of the pack, and from a farm with a strong recent history when it comes to making sires, is Sergei Prokofiev (Scat Daddy). The Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion was making his fourth juvenile start by the time Royal Ascot came around, where he was third to Calyx and Advertise in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes. By then his victories included a listed race at Naas. He took his racing well and won the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes afterwards in an eight-race two-year-old season.