Le Prince

[blackthroatedwind]

Remind me later this week. We should be able to post it.

[Calzone Lord]

Thanks. Will do.

His trainer, Dominick Imperio said he ran the 3rd fastest figure of all-time. On whose figures, the articles didn't say. It was obviously a blazing fast debut race, though.

He also did a good job of trying to sell him as 'the best that never was'

"I think," Imperio said, "that's he's as good as his father. He may be the best I've ever seen."

Kind of feels like the East Coast answer to Maclean's Music...but this one had distance breeding with the sire being Seattle Slew and the Dam having finished 2nd in the 3rd leg of the Candian Triple Crown to Canadian Hall of Fame male Overskate at 12 furlongs on turf at Woodbine.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Remind me later this week. We should be able to post it.

Do you know what happened to him? Did he die? I can't imagine he wasn't worth a lot as a stallion prospect, and the only reasons I can think of that he has no progeny are that he either died or was infertile.

[Indian Charlie]

That crop was already pretty good with Unbridled and Summer Squall, but man, if Le Prince and the mighty Grand Canyon could have stayed alive/sound, that would have been special.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Do you know what happened to him? Did he die? I can't imagine he wasn't worth a lot as a stallion prospect, and the only reasons I can think of that he has no progeny are that he either died or was infertile.

After some poking around on the interwebz, all I've found so far was a mistake in a sporthorse pedigree claiming he sired a horse born 14 years before he was and someone thinking they read he was exported to Sweden but they weren't sure. If he was sent to Sweden, it would explain the difficulty of figuring out who he sired if anybody. Not sure how you'd go about figuring that out. I did a quick directory search and found 4 stud farms in Sweden that don't appear to be standing him so at age 25 going on 26, the options are that he's been sent elsewhere (if he was ever in Sweden to begin with), pensioned or died.