Kevin Blake ….The last seven months or so have seen it all play out in front of us. As Wootton Bassett’s first Coolmore crop near the end of their two-year-old year, how can we rate their performance? Pick whatever superlative you like, none of them will be considered over the top. From 101 starters out of 182 named foals, Wootton Bassett has produced 10 Group-winning two-year- olds, with four of them winning Group 1 races. Those top-level scorers were Camille Pissarro in the
Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp, Tennessee Stud in the Criterium de Saint- Cloud, Twain in the Criterium International and Henri Matisse in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar. There have been plenty of top-class stallions in recent decades that took many, many years to sire four individual Group 1-winning two-year- olds. Indeed, some of them didn’t ever reach that number. So, for Wootton Bassett to produce that many in a single crop is a quite stunning performance.
Camille Pissarro
Henri Matisse
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