Leading First Crop Sire: How did they do?

[Equinometrics]

LEADING FIRST CROP SIRES
Year Sire State 2007 Fee AEI Foals SW SW%
2006 Street Cry KY $50,000 3.27 81 4 4.9%
2005 Tiznow KY $25,000 1.44 184 2 1.1%
2004 Successful Appeal KY $40,000 2.47 118 12 10.2%
2003 Stravinsky NZ 35,000 NZ$ 1.85 601 36 6.0%
2002 Distorted Humor KY $225,000 2.61 477 47 9.9%
2001 Valid Expectations TX $17,500 1.55 327 24 7.3%
2000 Honour and Glory KY $12,500 1.11 1035 33 3.2%
1999 Cherokee Run KY $40,000 1.57 481 26 5.4%
1998 End Sweep deceased 1.61 800 46 5.8%
1997 Gilded Time KY $10,000 1.51 896 45 5.0%
1996 Salt Lake CA $12,500 1.48 907 42 4.6%
1995 Farma Way deceased 1.04 402 20 5.0%
1994 Red Ransom UK £25,000 1.81 1196 72 6.0%
1993 Seeking the Gold KY $125,000 2.71 748 77 10.3%
1992 Forty Niner JPN 4,500,000 Yen 2.23 749 55 7.3%
1991 Capote pensioned 1.68 818 59 7.2%
1990 Woodman KY $20,000 1.46 1404 94 6.7%
1989 Chief's Crown deceased 2.29 592 53 9.0%
1988 Secreto deceased 1.40 483 32 6.6%
1987 Crafty Prospector pensioned 2.04 1015 89 8.8%
1986 Sportin' Life deceased 1.34 418 11 2.6%
1985 Fappiano deceased 4.40 410 48 11.7%
1984 Danzig deceased 4.17 1048 188 17.9%
1983 Alydar deceased 5.07 689 77 11.2%
1982 Seattle Slew deceased 3.68 1050 114 10.9%
1981 Turn and Count deceased 1.80 138 9 6.5%
1980 Foolish Pleasure deceased 1.95 471 43 9.1%
1979 L'Enjoleur deceased 1.57 598 35 5.9%
1978 Mr. Prospector deceased 3.99 1178 180 15.3%
1977 Roberto deceased 3.37 500 86 17.2%
1976 Raja Baba deceased 2.48 572 62 10.8%
1975 Al Hattab deceased 2.18 365 44 12.1%

Hello all. I'm a long time lurker but first time poster. I was curious how leading first crop sires worked out so I put this together and am posting it because I thought it might be of interest. Some one hit wonders (Sportin' Life - Bet Twice, Farma Way - Cobra King, Turn and Count?) along with those who are shaping the breed.

[Rokeby Forever]

Not ONE son of Storm Cat, huh?

[Patuxet]

What was the basis for their being designated a "leading sire"? Total earnings? Winners from foals? Winners from starters?

[Ill-bred]

fyi

Johannesburg (not Street Cry) is 2006's leading freshman sire by total earnings, winners, stakes winners, and graded winners.

[Equinometrics]

what is listed is from the Blood Horse and is ranked by total progeny earnings. they have Street Cry as #1. obviously one big earner can drive a horse to the top of the list as it did for Sportin' Life, Tiznow, Farma Way and others.

[Ill-bred]

what is listed is from the Blood Horse and is ranked by total progeny earnings. they have Street Cry as #1. obviously one big earner can drive a horse to the top of the list as it did for Sportin' Life, Tiznow, Farma Way and others.

Those Bloodhorse rankings you are referring to are not worldwide earnings...

2006 Total Progeny Earnings (Source: Equineline)

Street Cry $1,863,211

Johannesburg $1,955,459

Johannesburg led all freshman sires in winners, stakes winners, graded stakes winers, and total progeny earnings. Obviously, he did so with a much larger book than any of the other stallions, but he is clearly the champion freshman sire (for all that's worth).

And I have no connection to the horse, financial, emotional or otherwise....

[el camino]

I never understood the bloodhorse list as they cover some nations but not all. Anyone know which nations the exclude and why?

[Ill-bred]

I believe that Bloodhorse excludes all Southern Hemisphere runners, and I'm not sure what they do with Asia.

[louis finochio]

Farma Way had a Fish and Fowl pedigree and his son Cobra King inherited the same.

Sportin' Life and his son Bet Twice were Hit and Missy in the production of superior runners.

Turn and Count was a hot and cold stallion, as his left and right wing were recessive.

[Intrinsic Worth]

I wish they went on percentages overall. Johannesburg had twice as many 2 year olds than everyone else and it gives him an unfair advantage (part of the Coolmore plan.)

[Ill-bred]

I wish they went on percentages overall. Johannesburg had twice as many 2 year olds than everyone else and it gives him an unfair advantage (part of the Coolmore plan.)

I agree that total earnings is not the fairest way to determine top sire.

Coolmore also capitalizes on how the public focuses on the big horse.

Never mind that Stallion X had 200-plus mares and an abysmal start % , win %, and % of stakes winners, he had two Grade 1 winners! He can get the big horse! Stud fee triples!

[Rokeby Forever]

It's ridiculous....Yonaguska has a ton of winners and none of them are worth anything...the same will probably be true of Chapel Royale. Who are these people that Coolmore/Ashford can count on for 200 mares a year?

[Intrinsic Worth]

It amazes me how breeders would even think a Coolmore stallion is profitable when their book sizes are so huge. I loved the ad I saw recently for FuPeg that stated yearlings sold in 2006 went up to 1,000,000. He had (1) million dollar yearling, and Demi O'Byrne signed the ticket.

[horsenuts]

I wish they went on percentages overall. Johannesburg had twice as many 2 year olds than everyone else and it gives him an unfair advantage (part of the Coolmore plan.)

I think long time breeders and people who value a dollar are very skeptical of the way the stud game is being played. If you're on a budget of any sort(and who isn't save few) then SW percents/Graded Stake winners/AEI to CI/SI etc. are scrutinized and evaluated along with confirmation.. median earnings etc.

Seems sales prices trump accomplishments on the track... yet how many BIG sales are actually legitimate? Not all that many. On the track either they can or they can't and statistics used for analyzing such tell the real story.

There are many good stallions standing for $2,500-$5,000.. some up to $10,000-$15,000 and studs like Dehere at $20,000 and Silver Deputy at $30,000 merit consideration for the right mares.

[Intrinsic Worth]

Minus Distorted Humor (who was modestly priced when he started stud), many of the top First Year Sires haven't done much since. Tiznow's best two year olds were injured shortly after turning 3. Successful Appeal has done little, Stravinsky is in Japan, Valid Expectations is nothing much, Honour and Glory would be a better regional sire, and the list goes on. I think End Sweep would have proven to be a decent sire had he not died prematurely.

Coolmore figured out how to play the numbers game and produce champion sires by breeding in mass proportions. It really cheapens the phrase "Champion First Crop Sire" when you can win it by breeding to the most mares.