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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Easy Goer and The Bid weren't early speed sprinter/milers...that wasn't their best game.
I hope you aren't serious with the stallions you mentioned. They are all royally bred and were oustanding race horses.
* A. P. Indy is a half to Summer Squall and Honor Grades
* Kingmambo is out of Miesque
* Smart Strike is a Mr. Prospector half to hall of famer Dance Smartly
* Giant's Causeway is a Storm Cat out of a dam that ran a 120 Beyer
* Seeking The Gold is a half to Grade 1 winner from a great Phipps family
* Awesome Again is a half to champion Macho Uno from a super lightly raced race mare
* El Prado's dam won the 1K Guineas and he has many accomplish sibs
* Dynaformer's dam is a Grade 1 winning half to Darby Creek Road
My opinion was that if you take two horses who's pedigree and race record are similar in terms of quality and accomplishment - the one with the sharper early speed is significantly more likely to be a successful stallion than the closing sprinter or stalking distance horse type.
However, as long as 95% of the Grade 1 races are run between 7-to-12 furlongs - those royally bred stallions with great race records and outstanding books are going to always be the highest profile stallions.
Put It Back moves up his mares way more than most of those stallions you mentioned - but who wants to breed a good mare to a modestly bred one way sprinter who doesn't throw distance horses?
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and that moving up the mares stats are crap by the way. They are a very flawed statistic