I've never bred a horse in my life, but here's a dream list of what I'd look for. Nobody finds the dream, it's always a compromise.
I don't know the stallions well enough to know this, so maybe others that do know the stallions and what they throw can answer?
- middle-sized sire (not too big and doesn't throw huge babies, as Sumwon is a big girl)
- relatively compact conformation (but stayer type rather than sprinter type), very balanced with an athletic open way of moving, moderate with no extremes
- ** most important: throws good front legs consistently (good sturdy bone, absolutely no toeing out or back at the knees, a good big foot and has heel - good luck finding this in many thoroughbreds
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- deficient in Mr. Prospector in the pedigree
- precocity as 2-year-old not important
- tendency to have babies do better at 7f or over
- ** good temperment, sensible babies that are not crazy, stupid, and wired to the brink of insanity
If a stallion was deficient in ** I'd walk away and not consider him at all
Boy, Awesome Again (I just went and looked at him) - nice!
I like Dixieland Band, too - nothing flashy, and not alot of graded stakes runners, but they seem to last and run at 2-3-4 years age