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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
Coincidentally, this was on display this afternoon.
The winner of the First Lady (Forever something) is by Belong To Me, who as a racehorse was a sprinter and I don't believe ever tried the turf. However, he is a son of Danzig, and sure enough this horse improved significantly with a switch in her last 5 starts to turf.
Also, the multiple grass stakes winning 3yo contesting the Canadian International tomorrow (forgot the name) is by Langfuhr, another non-turf starting son of Danzig.
Other sons of Danzig that never started on turf but got their share of grass runners were Honor Grades, regional sire Game Plan (CA), Polish Numbers, Polish Navy, and Pine Bluff.
Shug McGaughey practically made a career out of resurrecting highly-touted sons of Danzig by putting them on turf, namely Lure, Furiously, and Strolling Along. War Chant is another good example from Neil Drysdale's barn.
It wouldn't have been hard to imagine Hard Spun following in those footsteps (up to a mile anyways).
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was it forever together? danzig got it all, he could sire just about anything. turfers, dirt, long, short. shame he was born too soon, he probably would have ruled the synthetic roost as well.
and got 200 stakes winners on about 40 mare books.