Is Next Year's Freshman Crop Stallions the best ever?

With Blame, Quality Road, Super Saver and Lookin at Lucky leading this years new stallions to stand next year, I thought it was a good time to look foward to next year's Freshman. The question is, can they top this years?

I mean Bernardini, Congrats, Bluegrass Cat, War Front, and Sharp Humor make up five of the Top 6 (only CAN stallion Old Forester ruins an all KY based Top 5. Although Congrats will be standing in KY for the first time in 2011). Add in Rockport Harbor, Silver Train and Flower Alley also having good starts to their careers. All, but 2 of the top 10 have stakes winners with the Top 4 (plus Flower Alley) having graded stakes winners. Bernardini and Congrats have G1 winners (with Bernardini having 2 of them).

With that being said, they could be topped. Why? These following stallions will have their first crops at the track next year.

Any Given Saturday
Corinthian
English Channel
Flashy Bull
Hard Spun
Invasor
Jazil
Purim
Shakespeare
Stevie Wonderboy
Street Sense
Sun King

And many more! I do think of this list, Corinthian, Hard Spun and Street Sense will get out to fast starts. Stevie Wonderboy might take a little bit of catching up. English Channel should take the lead in turf races along with Purim. One horse I didn't mention was Discreet Cat and that's because I don't think he'll have that great of a career.

Of course anything can happen in the topsy turvy world of horse racing!