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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
AP Indy passes on undesirable racetrack characteristics? Is winning a shtload of stakes now considered bad? He has something like 12% stakes winners in an era where 6% is considered good. Not to mention he is a very good broodmare sire.
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That part was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. Betsy kept mentioning that she wouldn't address all the flaws in his offspring that I was pointing out.
I figured the testicle thing would be the coup d'grace...
For what its worth, I always thought that a lot of his horses never realize the promise they show in their maiden and allowance races, even if they do go on to become stakes winners.