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$8 Million
• The $8 Million Sires represent 2.9% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Four of the $8 Million Sires, or 25%, are Thoroughbreds. •
Sire is Pass ‘Em Up TB (1965), who also has the most starters (1,250), winners (741) and Register of Merit offspring (801).
Two $8 Million Sires have a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Brookstone Bay (Runnning Brook Gal, $1,363,012) and Pie In The Sky (Heavenly, $1,045,796).
Zevi TB has the most stakes winners among the $8 Million Sires at 61. Genuine Strawfly has the least with 14.
TR Dasher
highest average earnings per starter with $27,825, followed by Chicks Regard with $27,607.
Two $7 Million Sires have a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Tempting Dash (Kiss My Hocks, $1,199,385) and Bigtime Favorite (JLS Mr Bigtime, $1,031,147).
Seven $7 Million Sires achieved their
status with leading money earners that did not earn more than $500,000.
Tolltac has the highest percentage of winners-to-starters at 71.4%, followed by
Go Man Go at 71.2%.
Make It Anywhere has the highest percentage of stakes winners-to-starters at 12.1%.
Two of the $7 Million Sires are in the AQHA Hall of Fame: Go Man Go and Top Moon.
• Bully Bullion has the most race age foals among the $8 Million Sires with 1,695. Genuine Strawfly has the least at 381.
• Genuine Strawfly leads the $8 Million Sires by average earnings per starter at $29,926.
• The Thoroughbred Reb’s Policy has the highest winners-to-starters ratio of any $8 Million Sire at 74.1%.
• Ronas Ryon is the only AQHA Hall of Famer among the $8 Million Sires.
Wave Carver
One Sweet Jess
• Three of the $8 Million Sires were born in 2000 or later – Favorite Cartel (2007) Wave Carver (2003) and Brookstone Bay (2001). Three were born in the 1990’s - Check Him Out (1999), TR Dasher (1998) and Dash Thru Traffic (1990). The oldest $8 Million
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Dash Thru Traffic Favorite Cartel
$7 Million
• The $7 Million Sires represent 2.8% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Hempen is the only Thoroughbred among the $7 Million Sires.
• One Sweet Jess, born in 2008, is the youngest of the $7 Million Sires. Tempting Dash, born in 2007, is the next youngest.
• Top Moon has the most race-age foals (1,829), starters (1,340), winners (795), wins (2,768) and ROM (348). Go Man Go, the oldest of the $7 Million Sires (born in 1953), leads this group by stakes winners (83), stakes wins (171).
• Bigtime Favorite has the least number of stakes winners among the $7 Million Sires with 9, followed by Chicks Regard (18) and Ocean Runaway (19). Make It Anywhere has the
Tempting Dash
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Bigtime Favorite
Ocean Runaway