Most disappointing Sires
 

Who is the one sire that you felt strongly might do well at stud, only to later watch them become a complete bust?

Coronado's Quest

Tabasco Cat

Cigar

Had a friend who worked at Padua's training center with the youngsters and her opinion was that the Coronado's Quests were just plain nuts. "And good riddance" was her remark after it was announced he'd been sold overseas. Mental attitude is as important as physical talents, and CQ was such a nut-case himself that it shouldn't have surprised that he passed it on.

The ones that I had were just slow.

LOL

On that note, I guess I could mention Precisionist as well.

Some pretty good stallions over the years have had attitudes.

I also thought CQ would make a much better stallion than he did. He certainly had a nice pedigree, his dam was a half to beaten Derby Favorite Private Terms among others, and his 2nd dam was a Bold Ruler half sibling to the great Ruffian.

CQ had speed, could carry it a classic distance, and was an excellent 2yo.

Well, it was disappointing to him :D

I think Coronado's Quest is a sleeper broodmare sire. He may not have the number in the long run to get to the top of the list, but they are some of the best bred mares out there. And yes most were quite slow.

How can it be anyone other than Spectacular Bid?

Recently---Cigar comes to mind. :D

I am drawing a mental blank here....who was the colt that Jimmy Bond had that won the Travers a few years back???

Behrens?

http://www.pedigreequery.com/bernardini

:D

The Bid wasn't much of a sire of sires, but some decent mares came about because of him.

There was once a stallion that stood at Calumet Farms back near the very end of it's heyday that was named, of all things, Shoulda Pulledout.

It didn't have the greatest record on the track, but, it was a son of Bold Ruler from the family of a really great turf horse. While, I wouldn't exactly say that the expectations were sky high or anything, this guy really tanked as a sire.

Although, some of his offspring are still around today....unfortunately

Our Maizcay,

Broke the track record aboslutely flew, Sired Absolute garbage can pick him up for $2,500 A sad end to a Great horse

Cajun, for the kind of horse he was, he was a disappointment...And there is no bigger fan of the Bid than me.

Affirmed wasn't the sire Alydar was either and part of that is my belief that Affirmed was a bit "hopped up" for his races.

Dayjur was another that I thought would make it.

OMG... that is f ucking hilarious!!! :eek: :D

Shiat... I won't stop laughing all night...

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