Big Brown has Quarter Crack

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Clearly you are correct in saying that the fact that he saw so many quality mares has a lot to do with his success as a broodmare sire. But I think you might be selling him a bit short in terms of just how good of a broodmare sire he actually turned out to be.

It isn't just that he sired terrific broodmares like Fantastic Ways, Six Crowns, Terlingua, Weekend Surprise (etc.) that then produced really good horses on the track. The fact that arguably the two most dominant American sires of the last decade were BOTH out of Secretariat mares is fairly remarkable.
I don't care how good the mares are that a sire sees, THAT sort of production couldn't really be expected.

I guess I'm trying to say that he certainly saw enough quality mares that it was very likely that he would be a very good broodmare sire.
But I think he turned out to be a great one.

I think they made a big mistake with the mares that they sent to Big Red in the first 5 years. He got the best mares that could go a classic distance of ground and that mixed with his ablity to run forever produced offspring that could go 1 1/2 miles and longer. Thats where they failed with Big Red. He needed to cover mares that would throw some speed to his distance. Just my view.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by 2Hot4TV

I think they made a big mistake with the mares that they sent to Big Red in the first 5 years. He got the best mares that could go a classic distance of ground and that mixed with his ablity to run forever produced offspring that could go 1 1/2 miles and longer. Thats where they failed with Big Red. He needed to cover mares that would throw some speed to his distance. Just my view.

He got plenty of those.

He was given every chance to be the greatest stallion ever - trust me, they didn't fail him.