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thank god i got a cozzene little boy before he peaced out...
Cozzene dead
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From a physical perspective, Alphabet Soup is very similar. From a numbers perspective, Mizzen Mast is doing well and is looking like one who will improve.
Unless a Cozzene son comes out of his last few crops, Mizzen Mast and Alphabet Soup are the two major standard bearers with Running Stag doing alright in the Southwest.
Unless a Cozzene son comes out of his last few crops, Mizzen Mast and Alphabet Soup are the two major standard bearers with Running Stag doing alright in the Southwest.
I don't think Cozzene has a true replacement son...
Both Alphabet Soup (Adena Springs) and especially Mizzen Mast (Juddmonte) have been supported by a strong book of mares early in their careers.
Mizzen Mast has a paltry 41% winners and does not improve his mares like his sire.
Cozzene bred crap at the beginning of his stud career and turned out to be the real deal. The amount Cozzene improves his mares continues to be one of the strongest ratios over the course of several generations.
Now, this is coming from a Cozzene fan and I am so thankful to have bred to him last year and that I now have a super gray colt galloping around the paddock!!
You will find lots of great stallions do not have true replacements at stud (with great numbers in every category).....Rahy, Broad Brush, Lord Avie, Bates Motel, Dynaformer, Lear fan, Theatrical, etc.
However, it only takes one and you never know who the particular horse will be.
I remember Winstar marketing Victory Gallop and Our Emblem. Victory gallop was the big ticket horse in advertising. However, they also stood a Forty Niner bred horse for a measly $10,000 that nobody gave two craps about. That horse turned out to be Distorted Humor!!! So, you just never know!!
Both Alphabet Soup (Adena Springs) and especially Mizzen Mast (Juddmonte) have been supported by a strong book of mares early in their careers.
Mizzen Mast has a paltry 41% winners and does not improve his mares like his sire.
Cozzene bred crap at the beginning of his stud career and turned out to be the real deal. The amount Cozzene improves his mares continues to be one of the strongest ratios over the course of several generations.
Now, this is coming from a Cozzene fan and I am so thankful to have bred to him last year and that I now have a super gray colt galloping around the paddock!!
You will find lots of great stallions do not have true replacements at stud (with great numbers in every category).....Rahy, Broad Brush, Lord Avie, Bates Motel, Dynaformer, Lear fan, Theatrical, etc.
However, it only takes one and you never know who the particular horse will be.
I remember Winstar marketing Victory Gallop and Our Emblem. Victory gallop was the big ticket horse in advertising. However, they also stood a Forty Niner bred horse for a measly $10,000 that nobody gave two craps about. That horse turned out to be Distorted Humor!!! So, you just never know!!
ASB wrote:Mizzen Mast's AEI has been on the rise all year. His AEI average this year is 1.78 compared to a 1.57 CI. He's only had 3 crops of racing age. And he's done it with crops that were smaller than his peers.
I think he's doing much better than fair.
In time, he could be a very live stallion.
The most current numbers I have is 1.45 AEI to a 1.57 CI. His median earnings is a low $17,358. I know that there is a lot of "buzz" around him but I think that is more from a pinhooking perspective.
He has 140 runners which is 4th highest in his entire class of 3rd crop sires (150 total). So, he got the mares...numbers wise.
In addition, Eight 3rd crop sires have equalled or surpassed his total number of stakes winners.
Plus, he is getting Juddmonte mares. I hate to keep saying that but they have some of the best mares in the world! LOL
I am always skeptical when stallions start out at Darley, Adena, or Juddmonte as you know some of those mares will be absolutely outstanding to skew the numbers. This is nothing against Mizzen Mast as I feel this way about any stallion from one of the big farms!
For example, his leading runner this year, Mast Track, was bred by Bobby Frankel out of his Graded stakes winning mare that has already produced black type.
I am old school as I love to see a Cozzene, Dynaformer, Saint Ballado, Mr. Prospector, Runaway Groom type that starts out with inferior mares in a Regional market but turn out to be great sires. I know..it's ridiculous!!
However, I hope you are right!!! We need a Cozzene replacement and especially another Outcross sire!!
I am going to geld my Cozzene after much reflection. He does have a great stallion pedigree but there are so many stallions in the world already (his name is Miscoe Gray if you care to check out his pedigree).
I love Cozzene, as well, but maybe my standards are too high as he has certainly raised the bar!!
I was speaking of his 2008 AEI, not his overall AEI.
And you're right, he did get more mares than I remembered.
And although Juddmonte certainly has one of the best broodmare bands in the world, Mizzen Mast's CI of 1.57 is solid but not statistically amazing.
In fact, it's well below or within a tenth of all the name stallions in his crop. So, I certainly wouldn't look at it as a huge advantage he holds over other's.
Juddmonte was too preoccupied in sending every mare on the farm to Empire Maker.
I do hope the Cozzene line continues on. It's the one easily available strain of Caro that doesn't have soundness issues, as a whole.
And you're right, he did get more mares than I remembered.
And although Juddmonte certainly has one of the best broodmare bands in the world, Mizzen Mast's CI of 1.57 is solid but not statistically amazing.
In fact, it's well below or within a tenth of all the name stallions in his crop. So, I certainly wouldn't look at it as a huge advantage he holds over other's.
Juddmonte was too preoccupied in sending every mare on the farm to Empire Maker.
I do hope the Cozzene line continues on. It's the one easily available strain of Caro that doesn't have soundness issues, as a whole.
