Undefeated Thousand Words has emerged as one of the West Coast’s leading Kentucky Derby hopefuls. Meanwhile his dam, a multiple graded stakes winner herself, has landed in the hands of the connections of another unbeaten colt from this 3-year-old crop.

Pomeroys Pistol was one of the highest-priced mares at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale when she sold for $475,000 to bloodstock agent Mike Ryan. He was acting on behalf of the Kindred Stables of Jeff Drown, who co-owns unbeaten Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Structor with Don Rachel.

Daily Racing Form's annual special edition takes a look at the leading sires in the prominent regional markets of New York, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other states in this Eastern region.

Perennial leading sire Tapit continues his emergence as a sire of sires, as, for the second year in a row, one of his sons was represented by an Eclipse Award champion.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner British Idiom, who earned her divisional title, is by the Tapit horse Flashback, who currently stands at Diamond B Farm in Pennsylvania after beginning his stud career in Kentucky. She followed 2018 Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner and Eclipse champion Monomoy Girl. That champion is by Tapizar, who stands alongside sire Tapit at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky.

The name of champion sprinter and 2020 freshman sire Runhappy was inescapable last week at Gulfstream Park, as owner Jim McIngvale continued his robust marketing campaign for his stable star. Runhappy, who stands at Claiborne Farm, was the title sponsor of both Thursday night’s Eclipse Awards and Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup and Pegasus World Cup Turf. Appropriately enough, Beyond the Waves, dam of 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar, delivered a Runhappy colt last year as her son was putting together his championship campaign, which included the inaugural Pegasus Turf.

Primal Force was a foundation broodmare for Frank Stronach's Adena Springs operation, producing two Grade 1 winners who went on to be prominent sires for the farm in Awesome Again and Macho Uno.

Tapit led the general sire list for three consecutive years in the past decade, breaking the single-season earnings record for a North American sire each time. Although he hasn’t led that list since he set the high bar of $19,245,198 in 2016, he has continued to make his presence known among the elite of the continent’s sires.

More Than Ready scored his biggest victory in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop Stakes in 2000 at Saratoga. Two decades after his exploits on the track, the 23-year-old stallion hasn’t slowed down. Neither have his progeny.

More Than Ready, who stands at WinStar Farm, sired the most individual runners to record triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures in 2019. According to DRF’s Beyer Sire Performance Standings, he led that list with six horses, outpacing Speightstown and Tapit with five each.

Few stallions have dominated their niche of the marketplace as thoroughly as Kitten’s Joy has over the last decade. Kitten’s Joy has been North America’s leading living turf sire every year since 2013, keeping that position last season with top-flight performers worldwide.

Take Charge Indy is the rare exception of a stallion who was sold to overseas interests and then returned to the United States to resume stud duties after being repurchased. A few others who preceded him were Empire Maker, the grandsire of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah who repatriated from Japan in 2016 after four years, and Kentucky Derby winner Dust Commander, who was sent to Japan in 1973 before his first foals raced and was returned to stand in Kentucky in 1980 after getting a number of top runners from his first several crops.

English Channel has been a model of consistency as a sire ever since his first foals raced in 2011. The son of Smart Strike has been a steady producer of top runners, especially of turf runners, though that should be expected of a horse who was one of the top grass runners in his day, winning 13 of 22 starts on turf, earning $5.7 million, and taking home an Eclipse Award as 2007 champion turf horse. At stud – starting at Lane’s End in 2008 before moving to Calumet Farm in 2015 – English Channel has sired six champions, 25 graded stakes winners, and 52 total stakes winners.