Cover story by Alan Porter

Freshman Sires for 2004

Who's Hot: Don't Avoid the Rush, by Anne Peters
Wild Rush scores five stakes winners in November

Close Encounters: A Huevo Revives Secretariat Line, by Alan Porter
Sprinter floors'em in De Francis Dash

California Dreamin': In the House, by Ann Ferland
Free House gets his first stakes winner

Stakes Winners

Terrible Twos: Living on the Edge, by Anne Peters
Late season two-year-olds make their stands

Porter on Pedigrees: Twenty-Five Plus, by Alan Porter
Mid-range sires becoming a scarce commodity

Noteworthy Nicks: Catch a Rising Cross, by Matt O'Neil
Storm Cat sons and Carson City daughters

New Sires for 2004: Late Additions Stud, by Anne Peters
Some updates to New Sires for 2004

The Sunshine State: Montbrook and Friends, by Avalyn Hunter
The state of the stallion colony in Florida