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$8 Million
• The $8 Million Sires represent 3.1% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Four of the $8 Million Sires, or 24%, are Thoroughbreds. •
oldest $8 Million 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
Big Daddy Cartel has the highest average earnings per starter with $28,499, followed by Chicks Regard with $28,082.
One $7 Million Sire has a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Bigtime Favorite (JLS Mr Bigtime, $1,031,147).
Six $7 Million Dollar 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 11.8%.
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 $29,649.
• Reb’s Policy TB 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
Furyofthewind
• Four of the $8 Million Sires were born in 2000
or later - One Sweet Dash (2008) Wave Carver (2003) Azoom (2002) and Brookstone Bay (2001). Four were born in the 1990’s - Check Him Out (1999), Genuine Strawfly (1999), TR Dasher (1998) and Dash Thru Traffic (1990). The
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Dash Thru Traffic One Sweet Jess
$7 Million
• The $7 Million Sires represent 2.9% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Hempen is the only Thoroughbred among the $7 Million Sires.
• Big Daddy Cartel, born in 2009, is the youngest of the $7 Million Sires. Freighttrain B, born in 2008, is the next youngest.
• Top Moon has the most race-age foals (1,829), starters (1,340), winners (795), wins (2,768) and ROM (804). Go Man Go, the oldest of the $7 Million Sires (born in 1953), leads this group by stakes winners (83) and stakes wins (171).
• Bigtime Favorite has the least number of stakes winners among the $7 Million Sires with 9, followed by Sir Runaway Dash (13).
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Freighttrain B
Bigtime Favorite
Ocean Runaway
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