KatieK101 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:50 am
I know Gun Runner crushed Uncle Mo’s first crop record last year, but what did Unclo Mo’s crop look like around this time for him? That was the first year I started to seriously follow horse racing (so hiiiii, Nyquist!) but I didn’t keep up w breeding back then.
Basically, how do the two stallion careers still compare?
Uncle Mo- end of 2016: 249 foals of racing age, 157 runners, 90 winners, 18 BTWers, 31 BTHrs, 10 GSWnrs, 2 G1SWnrs, $12,355,709
Cumulative(end of 2016) - 249 foals of racing age, 161 runners, 99 winners, 22 BTWers, 35 BTHrs, 12 GSWnrs, 3 G1SWnrs, $16,300,150
Gun Runner - today - 210 foals of racing age, 114 runners, 44 winners, 10 BTWers, 23 BTHrs, 7 GSWnrs, 4 G1SWnrs, $10,955,950
Cumulative(thru today) - 210 foals of racing age, 123 runners, 62 winners, 13 BTWers, 25 BTHrs, 8 GSWnrs, 6 G1SWnrs, $15,359,575
Like it was said, they got quite different books of mares. I can also only pull info from the end of 2016. Uncle Mo had more foals, every number was higher than Gun Runner's at this point, except one. Gun Runner has had 6 G1SWers in his first crop. That number is insane. There may have been other stallions that ended up with equal or more in their first crops but that was their entire racing careers. For example, Frankel had 6 G1 winners in his first crop, two won their first G1 at age 4, one at age 5, one at age 6. That is the only stallion I've found that has 6 G1 winners in their first crop beside Gun Runner and his first crop is only 3. I've checked big names too, there is probably another stallion out there that I just missed but I can't think of who to even look at. I felt it important to ONLY check stallions that went to stud during the big book era, because its impossible to compare a stallion who had a ton of foals vs. say Danzig who got 3 G1SWrs from 32 foals in his first crop. I checked Galileo, Tapit, Into Mischief, Dubawi(he had 7 born his first year at stud but part were from shuttling so I didn't count that), Deep Impact, Sea The Stars, Sunday Silence, and Curlin. So what Gun Runner has done in that regard is unprecedented and its a super super exciting stallion. And to just throw another random fact out there, Into Mischief has sired 11 G1 winners. I can easily see Gun Runner's fee being equal or higher than Into Mischief's next year.