Flanders wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:20 pm
HB1994 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:54 am
Sad to hear this. He kept Nureyev’s line going.
Yeah, I always liked Pivotal. He always looks gorgeous in pictures, except that one where they cut his forelock, that was horrifying. At least his son Siyouni is doing very well at stud and is popular and his son, Sottsass, entered stud at Coolmore this year, plus Coolmore has current 3yo St. Mark's Basilica(they bought him). I think because Siyouni has done well with Galileo mares, the 2 I mentioned both being out of Galileo mares, perhaps Coolmore will send some mares to him.
Farhh started well but never got many mares, perhaps after his decent start, he has gotten more mares. He has 9 SWs from 118 foals of racing age (with 4 crops of racing age, not counting 2yos of 2021). Including a G1 winner and multiple GSWs, one of which finished 2nd in the Epsom Derby.
He also has Lightning Spear whose first crop will be 2 in 2022.
Hopefully those 3 sons and their sons, can continue on Pivotal's line.
Oh that forelock photo was a total face palm. I don't know what on earth they were thinking.
Pivotal had an amazing year to go out on, he had 2 G1 winners on Champions Day this year which is pretty amazing for a non-Coolmore/Darley stallion.
I think his dominance lies in his fillies. I always loved his fillies, particularly Halfway to Heaven and Sariska. Sariska's Irish Oaks is till a go-to for a cheer me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD3eFTLFIOU
And Halfway to Heaven was a gorgeous mare, a really black grey. And she has become a classy broodmare - Magical and Rhododendron speak for themselves.
But he's also the damsire of One Master, Cracksman, Advertise, Hermosa, Mabs Cross, Veracious, Defoe, Hydrangea, Golden Horn, Olmedo, Main Sequence and Love (to name some of them). I think his story is far from over - Advertise and Cracksman both have stud careers about to get going. And Love could be anything this year <3
Fingers crossed Lightning Spear does something at stud, he certainly put enough miles on the clock to earn some decent mares.
