As I did the life of Cairo Prince, I realized I had never really thought the life and times of a sire. Consider the table below:
imp = inpregnated
| crop | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |||||||
| early | late | early | late | early | late | early | late | early | late | early | late | |
| 1st | imp | born | sold | race | ||||||||
| 2nd | imp | born | sold | race | ||||||||
| 3rd | imp | born | sold | race | ||||||||
| 4th | imp | born | sold | |||||||||
| 5th | imp | born | ||||||||||
| 6th | imp | |||||||||||
Stop and look again.
A new sire will impregnate his 5th crop BEFORE his first crop finishes their 3-yr old season.
It will be eight years until a crop is sold that reflects the group of mares bred to a sire after a full year of racing results.
That really is amazing.
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