Unusual Heat has come up the hard way as a stallion; his fee was initially free or thereabouts and he had fewer than 20 foals in each of his first few crops. But 8 of 14 foals (13 starters) in his first crop earned over $100K apiece, the SWs started coming, and he began to get more good mares. The Unusual Heats are rugged sorts in general, able to stand multiple years of racing, the heritage of his Danish-bred dam (a champion and Derby winner, then a G1 winner in the US). Now that he gets bigger crops of these horses who stick around for years, there tend to be a lot of them out there running and winning, particularly in SoCal.
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