The big story in Florida's freshman sire ranks for 2022 was rising star Girvin, who launched his career at Ocala Stud, in partnership with Kentucky's Airdrie Stud and racing owners Brad and Misty Grady.
A distinctive face in the barn at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud for more than a decade now, Munnings had a career year in 2022, which included siring North America’s winningest horse.
Young Grade 1 winner Constitution has started his stud career in strong fashion, and it looks like the best could be on the horizon for 2023.
Bolt d’Oro, Good Magic, and Justify were familiar foes on the racetrack, and locked horns again atop a competitive freshman sire class of 2022, finishing as the top three, in that order, by earnings, and deadlocked by other metrics.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Forte
The 2022 racing season continued to showcase the power of the partnership, with potential champions such as Flightline, Nest, Forte, and other major runners being campaigned in partnership. That theme of teaming up continues into a number of facets of the industry nationwide, including the Ohio stallion ranks.
At age 23, Stroll hasn't slowed down at all. The Grade 1 winner and successful sire continues to flourish as a leading sire in his adopted home state of Iowa, standing for Iowa State University's equine program in Ames. But the big man now has a few new stablemates on campus to help carry the load.
The ranks of elite turf sires are in a period of major change, both in North America and Europe, with the loss of several titans in recent years. Emerging as a leader of the group is War Front, a stallion popular on both sides of the Atlantic. The flagship of the Claiborne Farm roster, War Front is the leading living turf sire by earnings in North America, with several other stallions also emerging as horses to keep an eye on in the coming years.
Into Mischief claimed his fourth straight North American sire title in 2022 while again breaking his own single-season earnings mark. At this point, he may best be compared to some of the legends of the industry.
Bucking a national trend, Indiana was one of a few states that had an increase in mares bred in 2022, showing a response to a robust statebred program that has contributed major economic activity to the state.
