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Originally Posted by paisjpq
plus a mare won't have 100+ foals per year...if she su cks she'll weed herself out of the herd after a couple of foals...if the stud su cks well then there are that many more surpluss foals...
And IMHO I think the fact that a lot of super running mares can't come close to reproducing themselves shows you which mares had some extra vet help.
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I think that it would be presumptious to say that a mare who was a top class runner that was not a good producer had extra vet help. Same with stallions. Look at a horse like Lemon Drop Kid. Top class horse who seemingly was not trained by a "move up" trainer but seems hard pressed to replicate himself as a stallion. Was he enhanced as a runner? I think not. He seems to be passing on traits from his sire, Kingmambo, namely turfy types. Same with Skip Away. It has nothing to do with drugs it is genetics which are always much clearer 30 years down the road in hindsight.