Midnight Lute Retired

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

He is ranked 13th on the stallion list in california this year. He was 15th last year. In California. I will allow you to draw your own conclusions.

His lack of popularity out East shows from his crop sizes - first one 60, then 51, then 64, then 52 in the year his first foals would be 2yos. Fell to 17 the next year and to 10 from his last year in Kentucky. His first Calbred crop are 4yos this year, all 36 of them. Raw numbers, like sire lists, reward quantity, not quality.

It always amazes me how people expect horses who were sprinters to sire a lot of 2yo winners, even if they themselves didn't really excell until they were more mature, especially when, like Lit de Justice (and Midnight Lute?), they were bred to be stayers.