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Old 12-30-2014, 05:28 PM
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Quality Road is the 2014 Leading Freshman Sire. What made him so good and where does his future take him?

http://regalbloodlines.com/2014/12/3...freshman-sire/
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Old 12-31-2014, 08:09 AM
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I would suspect there will be plenty more offspring of Quality Road at "theaters near by' for as long as he is alive and breeding.
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Old 12-31-2014, 09:27 AM
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I meant what made his freshman year as a sire of quality and will he have continued success as a sire in year's ahead. Read the article.
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Old 12-31-2014, 09:49 AM
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He might be off to a good start, but he'll never be anything compared to Golden Missile as a sire.
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Old 12-31-2014, 09:54 AM
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I'll tackle this one because I'm Mr. Helpful around here:


Aaah I see you have a new nickname. Well done.
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Old 12-31-2014, 09:56 AM
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Only time will tell. He has many years left to catch up with him.
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Old 12-31-2014, 10:47 AM
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Only time will tell. He has many years left to catch up with him.
The Golden Missle reference is one of the longest-running 'inside jokes' in Derby Trail lore.. I can't begin to explain. Should be safe to say that Quality Road will have a better stallion career than Golden Missle. He has already.
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I'll look online and try to catch on. Thanks.
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Old 12-31-2014, 08:23 PM
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I will never forget Quality Road going bat$hit crazy at the post for the Classic. I hope he doesn't pass that trait to his offspring. I do think he was a talented horse, as well as a good-looking one.
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Here are the final standings for the freshman sires of 2014. I think Super Saver had a better year than Quality Road. Half of Quality Road's money was from one horse (Hootenanny, who won the BC Juvenille turf). I think the two big duds were Eskenderaya and Blame, neither of whom even cracked the top 10.


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Old 01-02-2015, 07:54 AM
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Here are the final standings for the freshman sires of 2014. I think Super Saver had a better year than Quality Road. Half of Quality Road's money was from one horse (Hootenanny, who won the BC Juvenille turf). I think the two big duds were Eskenderaya and Blame, neither of whom even cracked the top 10.


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I wouldn't toss Blame yet.
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I wouldn't toss Blame yet.
Yes. Who was expecting a later-developing 9-10f type to throw precocious win-early runners..
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Quality Road hails from some pretty regal bloodlines. His breeder and owner, Edward Evans, knows about endurance,
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Old 01-02-2015, 09:47 AM
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Yes. Who was expecting a later-developing 9-10f type to throw precocious win-early runners..
Have to give him 3 or 4 crops to pan out.
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Old 01-02-2015, 01:34 PM
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I wouldn't toss Blame yet.
I give him very little shot. Most of his two year olds were just not good movers. They had a very poor way of going. Their knee action was terrible. If he had pretty movers that just weren't that fast, then I would have some hope that they may do well when they stretch out. But that wasn't the case. Most of them were just ugly movers. I would be extremely surprised if he makes it as a sire.
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Old 01-02-2015, 03:47 PM
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I give him very little shot. Most of his two year olds were just not good movers. They had a very poor way of going. Their knee action was terrible. If he had pretty movers that just weren't that fast, then I would have some hope that they may do well when they stretch out. But that wasn't the case. Most of them were just ugly movers. I would be extremely surprised if he makes it as a sire.
You'll say anything to diminish Zenyatta's legacy.

Weren't there a couple of decent Blames early in the year? I thought there was some hype on his first couple of runners.
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Old 01-02-2015, 06:15 PM
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You'll say anything to diminish Zenyatta's legacy.

Weren't there a couple of decent Blames early in the year? I thought there was some hype on his first couple of runners.
I'm sure you were only kidding but I don't think Blame's performance as a sire will have much impact on Zenyatta's legacy.

There were a couple Blame two year olds that looked pretty good. But the vast majority did not look good at all.

Based on race career, it's tough to predict who will be a good sire. A couple of the best sires right now are Tapit and Malibu Moon. Tapit won a few races but overall he didn't accomplish all that much on the track. I think he only ran about 5 times total. Malibu Moon only ran twice. I don't think too many people would have predicted that either one of those would be star sires.

If you would have asked me who was going to be better between Eskenderaya and Super Saver, I would have said Eskenderaya. I thought he was a much better horse than Super Saver. But after the first few two year old sales this year, then I had the opposite opinion. There were a lot of Super Saver two year olds that looked like they could really run. Most of the Eskenderayas looked awful and that has pretty much panned out on the track so far.
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I wouldn't toss Blame yet.
I second this...
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Here are the final standings for the freshman sires of 2014. I think Super Saver had a better year than Quality Road. Half of Quality Road's money was from one horse (Hootenanny, who won the BC Juvenille turf). I think the two big duds were Eskenderaya and Blame, neither of whom even cracked the top 10.


http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...sts/first-crop
Way to early to comment on success at stud -Esky and Blame are likely to have runners develop at 3
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Old 01-03-2015, 09:15 PM
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I'm going to have a Quality Road foal hitting the ground pretty soon. Mares name is Gold Collection. Going to be a La Bred. Crossing my fingers for a healthy foal.
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