Champions Who Failed As Stallions

Originally Posted by Kasept

There's also a difference between success at stud as "fashionable" and success at stud unfashionably..

Pleasant Tap is a 'success' if anyone is willing to let the progeny ripen. Through '04, Tap's stats yield 74% runners, 49% winners and 8% stakes winners. At $10,000 a clip, he's the greatest bargain in breeding.. Turf.. Dirt.. routes.. sprints.. Tap Dance City, Tap the Admiral (RIP), PT's Grey Eagle, Pleasant Breeze, Tap to Music.. And he get's his get from ordinary mares.

But the breeding industry is precocious crazy and care little about soundness and longevity, so Pleasant Tap is a "failure" at stud.. Myopic..

Real Quiet has been labeled a total failure as well, but this past year has had two grade one winners. He now stands for 5 grand, in Pennsylvania. His son Midnight Lute won over the waxcovered tires yesterday at Keeneland in the Perryville.
Big difference between commerical failure and failure in general. Most start at such a high stud fee that the expectations are insane to begin with.