Champions Who Failed As Stallions

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Question...

What is everyone determining as a "long string" of stakes winners? How many before a stallion is considered a success?

The basic rule of thumb for measuring success of sires of runners is ... 10% stakes winners AND a Lifetime AEI of 3.00 or more.

That combination indicates both quantity and quality. Having one without the other makes the success more marginal.

The greatest stallions had 20% stakes winners AND 5.00+ AEI. Bold Ruler had the all-time best numbers of 24% and 7.78.

An AEI of less than 2.00 and less than 4% stakes winners ... means abject failure. In-between numbers are very disappointing for champion runners as stallions.

Pedigree Annie doesn't have the guts to tell us the numbers of the stallions she says weren't failures.