STAR STALLIONS

David Cormack looks at the stud career of Urban Sea who has bred some of the best Flat horses of the past 25 years

Stallions will often have over 100 representatives in every crop with which to find that flag-bearing star that will ensure their name remains in the ascendant. But mares have very limited opportunity during their lifetimes to make their mark on the thoroughbred breed. Even a very good broodmare has so few representatives that they are at the mercy of the laws of statistics regarding whether they will produce a star.
But every now and then a rare ma...