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$10 Million+
• The 62 stallions that have surpassed $10 Million in progeny earnings represent 11.3 percent of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Only two Thoroughbreds have sired Quarter Horses that have earned more than $10 Million: Beduino and Raise Your Glass. Beduino was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2008.
• The 16 youngest stallions to sire over $10 Mil- lion are Apollitical Jess (born in 2007, who in 2018 broke First Down Dash’s single-season sire earnings record of $6.5 million when his progeny reached nearly $6.7 million), Favorite Cartel (2007), Foose (2006), Jet Black Pa- triot (2006), Carters Cartel (2005), Coronas Leaving You (2005), First Moonflash (2005, deceased), One Famous Eagle (2005), FDD Dynasty (2004), Ivory James (2004), Valiant Hero (2004), PYC Paint Your Wagon (2003, deceased), Teller Cartel (2003), Jesse James Jr (2001, deceased), Oak Tree Special (2000, de- ceased) and Stel Corona (2000, deceased).
• Coronas Leaving You has the fewest number of race age foals in this category at 510. Dash Ta Fame leads the Million Dollar Sires overall with 3,201 race age foals.
• Hall of Fame inductee First Down Dash is the Million Dollar Sire with the most starters with 2,108. Hall of Fame inductee Easy Jet is second (2,019), followed by Hall of Fame inductee Chicks Beduino (1,716), Corona
$9 Million
• Therearefour$9MillionSires,whorepresent less than one percent of all Million Dollar Sires.
• The oldest $9 Million Sire is Rocket Wrangler, born in 1968. The youngest is Tempting Dash, born in 2007.
• Among the $9 Million Sires, Easily Smashed has the most race age foals with 1,667. Tempting Dash has the fewest race age foals (455) as well as the fewest starters (373), winners (239), stakes winners (27), wins (480), and stakes wins (35).
• Easily Smashed and Rocket Wrangler lead this group by race age foals, starters, winners and stakes winners. Easily Smashed’s 1,667 race age foals included 1,188 starters and 720 winners; Rocket Wrangler’s 1,628 foals included 1,221 starters and 762 winners.
• Tempting Dash’s average earnings per starter leads the list of $9 Million Sires at $24,676, and his leading money earner accounted for the most earnings among the group (Kiss My Hocks, $1,199,385).
• Rocket Wrangler is the only AQHA Hall of Famer among the $9 Million Sires.
Cartel (1,548) and Mr Eye Opener (1,497). Coronas Leaving You has the least number of starters in this category with 410.
• Coronas Leaving You has the fewest number of winners among the $10 Million Sires with 246, while First Down Dash has the most at 1,442.
• There are only four Million Dollar Sires overall to sire more than 1,000 winners and all four have sired over $10 Million in earnings: First Down Dash (1,442), Easy Jet (1,382), Chicks Beduino (1,129) and Corona Cartel (1,071).
• Runners by First Down Dash have the most overall number of wins at 4,051. Coronas Leaving You runners have the least number of wins of the $10 Million Sires at 585.
• There are seven Million Dollar Sires overall to sire over 100 stakes winners, only one to have sired more than 200 stakes winners, and all have sired over $10 Million in earnings: First Down Dash (258 stakes winners), Corona Cartel (179), Mr Jess Perry (152), Dash For Cash (145), Easy Jet (145), Chicks Beduino (141) and PYC Paint Your Wagon (111).
• First To Shine has the fewest number of stakes winners of the $10 Million Sires with 15, followed by Jet Black Patriot and Coronas Leaving You with 21 each.
• Only one Million Dollar Sire overall has sired com- bined progeny that have won more than 500 stakes races – First Down Dash with 511 stakes wins.
• First To Shine has sired the fewest number of stakes wins among the $10 Million Sires at 23. He is followed by Jet Black Patriot (35), Teller Cartel (36) and Dean Miracle with 39.
• First Down Dash, Easy Jet, Chicks Bedu- ino, Corona Cartel, Mr Eye Opener, Mr Jess Perry, Special Effort and Strawfly Special are the only Million Dollar Sires overall to have more than 1,000 Register of Merit offspring.
• Apollitical Jess has the highest average earnings per starter among all Million Dollar Sires at $61,876, followed in the $10 Million category by One Famous Eagle ($45,603), First Down Dash ($42,119) and Corona Cartel ($40,688).
• Tres Seis, the #19 all-time leading sire of money earners with over $24.1 million, is the sire of AQHA’s #1 all-time leading money earner – Ochoa with $2,781,365.
• Of the 23 stallions with $20 million or more in offspring earnings, seven are in
the AQHA Hall of Fame: Chicks Beduino, Dash For Cash, Easy Jet, First Down Dash, Mr Jess Perry (the most recent inductee
in 2019), Strawfly Special and Streakin La Jolla. Of the remaining stallions with $10 million or more in offspring earnings, four additional stallions are in the AQHA Hall of Fame: Beduino TB, Runaway Winner Spe- cial Effort and Streakin Six.
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