Saint Ballado as broodmare sire

[jagger]

What is Saint Ballado's success as a broodmare sire? I don't see his name anywhere on the list, either lifetime or current.

[LSB]

According to Keeneland (who prints a small bio of each broodmare sire at the top of each broodmare offering's page) he is the sire of the dams of stakes winners Saint Afleet, Missle Bay, and Night Sky.

[chicago78]

He's also pretty to be a prominent broodmare sire, and spent his first few seasons in Florida. I would think that he's going to make some noise as a broodmare sire in the next few years.

[ragsdaj]

Devils Bag as a broodmare sire has 13 listed sires advertised at stallionregister (not arguing they are good are bad). He is 1981.

saint ballado has 1. He is 1989. I would agree with Chicago that SB will start having some future success as a broodmare sire.

I had read an opinion that rarely is sire a good sire and a broodmare sire. They sited some exceptions but generally it is one or the other. They stated that when a sire starts becoming a good broodmare sire that the sire line starts to fade away. Do you think that has any merit?

[brogers]

Leading broodmare sires are almost always a function of the quality of mares that they covered at stud. Secretariat is thought of as a great broodmare sire but he served some of the best mares and his daughters visited top class stallions as they had great pedigrees.

Saint Ballado started in Florida and with all respect to breeders there and not wanting to come off as elitist, didn't get the quality of mare with the required female family to sustain him as a broodmare sire. Expect him to improve with the pedigrees of his daughters having a little more to them in his KY crops.

[louis finochio]

Saint Ballado will become a superior BMS, as all superior BMS descend from dams or grand dams of superior producers.

As one looks at the 1st 3 dams of SB, you can see where his strength as a BMS will come from, as its family over individual.

[jagger]

Very good to hear from the highly respected and greatly revered, louis finochio, that Saint Ballado will become a superior BMS. We just bought one of his daughters, Saintly Magic, at the FT sale.