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Originally Posted by philcski
Who owns Cool Clue? I like his pedigree. Include was off to such a good start, where are his 2yos this year??? If pedigreequery is right, he's only had 5 2yo starters and 0 winners.
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Its an artifact of the way breeders look at new stallions. The first crop and, to some extent the second, will be sold before the buying public has any idea whether the stallion will be successful so breeders will send (and the farm will recruit) good mares for him so their yearlings will sell well. By the third crop (oldest runners will be 3), breeders who sell yearlings will hedge their bets by not sending their better mares to him, in case he has been a total wash-out and they can't give away their yearlings, and this often extends to his 4th crop as well. By the 5th crop, the stallion's approximate quality is known and, if successful with those first two crops, the good mares are back.