CURTAIN Time has shown that when given the chance, he is as capable as any of the top sires of not only getting a winner, but of getting a good one.

Almost all of the top 20 stallions this National Hunt season have had as many runners in the past 10 or 11 months as Curtain Time has had in his entire stud career, which started back in 2004 with Liam and Gary Norris at Woodfield Farm Stud near Kilmacthomas. The son of Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) was a winner on his debut in a 10-furlong maiden at Newmarket when trained by Henry Cecil for owner-breeder Charlie Wacker.