[brianwspencer]

I feel stupid for not knowing this already.......but......I was thinking about the Dreaming of Anna/Lewis Michael connection.

Let's say Dreaming of Anna turns out to be a superhorse (just give me this one for the sake of this question....because it addresses a more general idea later) and wins the majority of her career races, and racks up several grade I wins as a 3yo and as an older mare.

She goes to the shed and produces another precocious, top-level two/three year old.

Does Lewis Michael, by default, become a sought after stallion? Obviously, he's generally always overmatched in graded races, but is not a completely useless horse by any stretch. If his full sister becomes a good producer, does he generally get perceived as a good pedigree starting point?

Or is there an inherenetly major difference, from the pedigree standpoint, in what a top-level mare like Dreaming of Anna passes to her offspring as opposed to what her less-successful full brother would pass on as a stallion?