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Originally Posted by Kasept
From Alan Shuback's wrap-up of closing day at Ascot... Note the condition of the race the Queen's colt won...
Queen Elizabeth had something to cheer about as her juvenile colt Free Agent won the listed seven-furlong Chesham Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths as the 7-2 co-favorite with runner-up Seaway. A son of Dr Fong, Free Agent was winning for the second time in two starts in a race restricted to horses whose sires had won going at least 1 1/4 miles.
Isn't this a viable model for the way to build interest in the 'unfashionable' stamina-tinged sires/sire lines? Pleasant Tap, Broad Brush sons, etc? Can be "sires who won going at least 1 1/8 miles", or whatever...
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It should be noted that the first two home in that race were both by Dr. Fong, who, yes, did win at 10f, but who's Group 1 form was displayed at a flat mile.
The third place horse was by FuPeg, who some might say outstayed his pedigree being a son of Mr. Prospector. The 4th place horse I think was by Hawk Wing, again, another horse probably at his best racing a mile. Incidentally, one of the trailers was by Peintre Celebre, the only sire represented in the race that was a true distance horse, having won the French Derby (when it was 12f) and the Arc.
In theory, the idea might work, but at least as far as this race goes, it just seems like easy pickings for the progeny of precocious stallions who happened to get it done once or twice over a distance of ground.