Lifetime Dirt Sire winners

[mysaladdays]

This is an interesting database. 

www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/thoroughbred-breeding/sire-lists?year=2023&listType=3yoc&racingArea=nh&standingRegion=north-america&surface=dirt&sortColumn=btw

What is heart-rending, when I looked thru the list:    Look at Smarty Jones.      He never produced a horse as great as himself.   

You know he couldn't run at all after his campaign, his legs were too fragile to train, after his grueling 7-race run in the winter and spring of 2004.

Those non-contenders in the race took him out by pushing/pressing him.  That makes me sad, too. 

[mattcoll]

Curlin has been good for the breed.

Gun Runner off to a great start.

Those American Pharoah's look like they like to go long...but small sample so far.

[tenfurlongs]

How about the quality of the crop of 2004: Curlin (6), Street Sense (16), and Hard Spun (22). Duked it out during the TC series, then came back to run 1st, 2nd, & 4th in the BC Classic. 




TW