Question re: Sky Mesa

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Originally Posted by Betsy

I didn't have problem with your post until you added "yeah he sucks" or whatever. I never said he sucked, but I expected Sky Mesa to be a superstar sire and yes, he's disappointed me in that regard. I did later admit that it's possible for him to be a good sire without being a leading sire......Because SM is not a leading sire, that lead me to think he wasn't very good at all. I'm fine with being wrong. Since I adore Indy and Pulpit, believe me, I have every reason to want Sky Mesa to succeed. By the way, did you expect Sky Mesa to be a great sire? If so, has he lived up to your expectations?

Your expectations or mine have nothing to do with the numbers that the horse has posted as a sire so far. As Drugs pointed out his first crop as 2 yo's were slow to develop but they rapidly improved as SM was the leading second crop sire in 2008. Then he backed up that good year with another one last year when he ranked 2nd on the 2009 third crop sire list. That is three years worth of data and two of the three years were outstanding.

It is very difficult for a stallion with three crops to rank real high on the general sire list, especially one like SM who's 2 yos dont do much running early in the year.