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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
None of those nine great horses where really brilliant sprinter/miler types with sharp early speed except for perhaps Spend A Buck and Devil's Bag.
Spend A Buck has managed to sire four different multiple Grade 1 winning millionaires .. all of which from South American dams. They being Pico Central, Einstein, Antespend, and Hard Buck.
While Devils Bag wasn' a bad sire either - he was obviously a big disappointment - but his much lesser 8-year younger full brother Saint Ballado, who only sold for five figures as a yearling, has been a smashing success at stud.
Brilliant speed seems to be clearly the #1 stallion making quality.
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Except when you look at AP Indy, Kingmambo, Smart Strike, Giants causeway, Seeking the gold, Awesome Again, El Prado and Dynaformer. Or most of the top proven sires in the US outside of Storm Cat, Unbridled Song and Distorted humor.
Plus your logic may be flawed as many of those types could have been ve
ry successful as milers especially Easy Goer and the Bid. There just isnt any reason to do so if you could win the bigger races going longer.