You prefer to fudge and be dishonest ... instead of graciously conceding that you misunderstood something.

Are you seriously trying to say that "for a while" ... meaning the mid-1940's to the mid-1950's ... Bull Dog wasn't more influential than Sir Gallahad? Can you even remotely back that up? Please list all the champions and major stakes winners from the Sir Gallahad line ... during that period ... which matched the parade of champions from the Bull Dog line.

And Bull Lea wasn't just a poor sire of sires ... he was awful ... as I said ... the world's worst ... as far as stallions who were champions themselves. Your "explanation" of why it happened ... because his sons were "exported" ... conveniently leaves out why they were exported ... and that's because they stunk as stallions here. Why else would champion ... or major-stakes-winning ... sons of the pre-eminent stallion in this country be exported to a Europe that had barely begun to recover from the devastation of WWII?

About Coaltown .. you just say that he was exported ... but you again conveniently left out that ... from over 150 foals ... he failed to sire a single stakes winner ... either here or in Europe.

I'll give you this last chance to redeem yourself ... not just with me ... but with everyone else who is closely following this thread ... and simply admit that you misread my first post ... and subsequently came to understand that the points I made were correct.

That should be pretty easy for a self-assured, mature adult to do. Are you up to it, Annie?