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$9 Million
• Thereareonlyfour$9MillionSires, which represents less than 1 percent of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Theoldest$9MillionSireisRocket Wrangler, born in 1968. The youngest is Teller Cartel, born in 2003.
• Amongthe$9MillionSires,Teller Cartel has the fewest race-age foals (668), starters (466), winners (266), stakes winners (23), wins (511), and stakes wins (35).
Rocket Wrangler
Teller Cartel
• EasilySmashedandRocketWranglerleadthisgroupbyrace-agefoals,starters,winnersandstakeswinners.EasilySmashed’s1,667raceagefoals included 1,188 starters and 720 winners; Rocket Wrangler’s 1,629 foals included 1,221 starters and 762 winners.
• TellerCartel’saverageearningsperstarterleadsthelistof$9MillionSiresat$21,409,andhisleadingmoneyearneraccountedforthemostearn- ings among the group (Llano Teller, $1,769,917).
• RocketWrangleristheonlyAQHAHallofFameramongthe$9MillionSires.
$8 Million
• The $8 Million Sires represent 2.9% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Four of the $8 Million Sire, or 27%, are Thoroughbreds.
• Three of the $8 Million Sires were born in 2000 or later –
Jet Black Patriot (2006), First Moonflash (2005) and Stel Corona (2000). Three were born in the 1990’s - Check Him Out (1999), TR Dasher (1998) and Dash Thru Traffic (1990). The oldest $8 Million Sire is Pass ‘Em Up TB (1965), who also has the most starters (1,251), win- ners (741) and Register of Merit offspring (801).
• Three $8 Million Sires have a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Stel Corona (Foose, $1,616,938), First Moonflash (Handsome Jack Flash, $1,517,491) and Pie In The Sky (Heavenly, $1,045,796).
• ZeviTBhasthemoststakeswin- ners among the $8 Million Sires at 61. Jet Black Patriot has the least with 12.
• BullyBullionhasthemostrace
age foals among the $8 Million
Sires with 1,695. Jet Black Patriot
has the least at 404, and First Moonflash follows at 405.
• FirstMoonflashleadsthe$8MillionSiresbyaverageearningsper starter at $36,352.
• TheThoroughbredReb’sPolicyhasthehighestwinners-to-starters ratio of any $8 Million Sire at 73%.
• RonasRyonistheonlyAQHAHallofFameramongthe $8 Million Sires.
$7 Million
• The $7 Million Sires represent 3.19% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Hempen is the only Thoroughbred among the $7 Million Sires.
• Foose, born in 2006, is the youngest of the $7 Million Sires. Carters
Cartel, born in 2005, is the next youngest.
• Top Moon has the most race-age foals (1,829), starters (1,340), win-
ners (795) and wins (2,768). Go Man Go, the oldest of the $7 Million Sires (born in 1953), leads this group by stakes winners (83) and stakes wins (171).
• Brookstone Bay has the least number of stakes winners among the $7 Million Sires with 13, followed by Genuine Strawfly with 14. Genuine Strawfly has the highest average earnings per starter in this group with $31,183, followed by Foose with $30,894.
• Only two $7 Million Sires had a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Brookstone Bay (Runnning Brook Gal, $1,363,012) and Foose (Foose Cash Sr, $1,235,544).
• Nine $7 Million Sires achieved their status with leading money earn- ers that did not earn more than $500,000.
• Tolltac and Go Man Go have the highest percentage of winners-to- starters at 71%.
• Go Man Go has the highest percentage of stakes winners-to- starters at 11%.
• Two of the $7 Million Sires are in the AQHA Hall of Fame: Go Man Go and Top Moon.
Carters Cartel
Jet Black Patriot
First Moonflash
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Stel Corona
Genuine Strawfly