Where a horse is born....

[pmayjr]

You're right about bloodlines, but I'm pretty sure Wisconsin, and where I'm from, Minnesota, doesn't have any A.P. Indy babies born and bred in the state. All the good ones seem to be in KY, Florida, Cali, the UK, but not in Minnesota lol.

I was looking at the Midwest sires issue of the DRF that came about a month ago with the Sunday DRFs, and I was shocked to see Minnesota that had a Sire that made the 2 year old sire rankings. His name was Thatsusintheolebean. His sire was El Prado, and he was horse of the year at Canterbury back in the 90s. Eventhough his dad was El Prado, I think he won more on dirt than turf. He died last year, but still had about 20-25 horses that made it to the track last year. In that mix he got enough winners to make the bottom of the list. MINNESOTA REPRESENT LOL!

But that example right there is the reason why in the end, states do matter. Because most states don't get the horses with the big-time bloodlines to be a major player against KY, FL, etc etc etc.