Inspirational and depressing at the same time

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

I guess we can agree to disagree on Northern Afleet as a sire. To my way of thinking, if he's on the top 100 sire list given the opportunities that he's had, I have a hard time calling him "weak."

As for Skip Away, he's never had a horse of significance, his AEI (1.32) is below his CI (1.43), and his yearlings and 2YOs sell for next to nothing, so I fail to see how "his numbers are better than" Northern Afleet.

take away AA and what do you have? He is a one horse wonder. 571 foals and 16 stakes winners and 13 stakes place horses. that is a miserable number. This is after 7 crops. That is very weak. We arent talking graded stakes horses, just stakes horses. Including all those bs calder stakes. If not for the mother of AA and UM he would have virtually no top flight horses. He is not a Bad sire but he is not very good yet and projecting success based on getting better mares is dangerous.

SA has had more graded stakes winners, stakes winners and stakes placed horses than NA and the last few years he has had foal crops of 50 or less. he aint good but it is hard to make a case that NA is better.

Maybe I am being elitist but to my thinking you could breed to billy goats and be on the top 100 sire list