THE current batch of second-crop sires features Lope De Vega, Makfi, Rip Van Winkle, Siyouni, and Starspangledbanner, each of whom has a Group 1 winner to his name.

Various others have also been showing plenty of potential, getting stakes and pattern winners in addition to horses whose other winning form has suggested they could be blacktype scorers of the future, and it is a fair bet that some of those stallions will also get one or more progeny who succeed at the highest level at some stage.