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Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann
As to Plucky Liege's sons, Sir Gallahad III was leading US sire (4 times to Bull Dog's once) and leading broodmare sire (12 times to Bull Dog's 3), sired a Triple Crown winner and two other Kentucky Derby winners, while Bull Dog sired no winners of Triple Crown races. Bull Dog was not nearly as good a racehorse as Plucky Liege's other 3 sons. Bois Roussel and Admiral Drake stood in Europe and sired classic winners there, had minimal impact on this continent.
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Helllloooooo ... Pedigree Ann ... are you there?
Please re-read my post ... I didn't say that Bull Dog was as good a sire of runners as his brother, Sir Gallahad ... nor that Bull Dog was a good race horse.
What I said was "for a while" he was the "most important" of Plucky Liege's offspring. That "while" being the 1940's and 1950's ... when Bull Dog's son Bull Lea was cranking out champions as though he were an assembly line.
But the "assembly line" came to a screeching halt ... when all of Bull Lea's sons were failures at stud. (Oh ... but you already knew that from my previous post.)
Do you understand that ... or shall I try to explain it some more?