Mulligans

There was no good reason to get away from Dialed In as a sire. I admit I got carried away with all the new shiny freshman sires that have never lost a race. I have had good results with Dialed In and should have continued to push this idea.

Let’s go back and find the two best Dialed In’s from the Keeneland sale:

1. #1398 – f – Dialed In – Home of the Blues by Street Cry – $130,000 DJ Stables
2. #1921 – c – Dialed In – Raspberry Jazz by Arch – $55,000 – Cres Ran

Who is this years Dialed In? I think it could be Cairo Prince. This is his first crop after his stud fee was raised to $25,000. Let’s see if the better mares help.

1. #585 – c – Cairo Prince – Flying Spur by Giant’s Casueway – $60,000 Al Fried
2. #1672 – c – Cairo Prince – Aspen Hilltop by Bernardini – $45,000 Shortleaf
3. #204 FT – c -Cairo Prince – Light of a Star by Muqtarib – $120,000 August Dawn

This could be coach Parcell’s Derby horse.

Just for practice lets review Cairo Prince’s life:

1. Holy Bubbette was the daughter Holy Bull and one losing race mare. She was bred by Richard Elam. She was 6 for 13 winning two small stakes and a top equibase fig of 107. She stopped racing in 2004. She had a Forestry filly in 2006 that won $86,000, and an Empire Maker filly in 2007 that won $127,000. Her next three foals never raced.
2. In 2010 she went to visit Pioneerof the Nile. On February 11, 2011 Cairo Prince was born. Mr. Elam took him to the Keeneland yearling sale and sold him for $250,00 in September 2012 to Namcook Stables.
3. CP breaks his maiden at first asking in October at Belmont. The owner of record is Paul Braveman, and is trained by Kiaran McLaughlin. He then wins the Nashua in November, and the Holy Bull in January 2104. He is forth in the Florida Derby, and never races again.
4. CP meets his first new girlfriends in early 2015 at Airdrie Stud. He charges $10,000 for his services. His first foals are born in early 2016, and are sold a yearlings in the fall of 2017.
5. Here is the tricky part. CP meets his second group of girlfriends while his first group is producing 120-150 babies. His second crop is being impregnated while his first crop is being delivered in early 2016.
6. CP meets his third group of girlfriends BEFORE his first crop is sold as yearlings
7. CP’s first crop of babies sell very well at the 2017 yearling sales averaging about $150,000. That is very impressive for a $10,000 sire.
8. CP meets his fourth group of girlfriends in early 2018. Some “prettier” girls arrive for this fourth group based on the sales results, but remember nobody has seen a race run by a CP offspring.
9. By the end of 2018 Cairo Prince is the third best freshman sire. His high priced babies run well enough including Royal Charlotte and Cairo Cat. Royal Charlottes’s mare had two unimpressive starts at Lone Star, and Cairo Cat’s mom was a $5,000 claimer at Penn National. CP had great racing results even though his first crop mares were horrible.
10. Even as CP meets his fifth group of girlfriends in early 2018, all the mare owners have seen is a few months of racing. CP’s fee is raised to $25,000. Maybe that scares some mare owners away. It is that fourth group that was at the sale last week. Impregnated in 2018, born in 2019, sold in 2020.
11. It could be the fifth crop which attracts the better mares, but it might even be the sixth crop.

You have to really sit down and think about the “flow” of mares to new sires. There is a lag that you have to think about very carefully.