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$9 Million
• There are only five $9 Million Sires, which represents less than one percent of all Million Dollar Sires.
• The oldest $9 Million Sire is Rocket Wrangler, born in 1968. The youngest is Carters Cartel, born in 2005.
• Among the $9 Million Sires, Carters Cartel has the fewest race-age foals (572). Stel Corona has the fewest starters (381), winners (241), stakes winners (30), wins (585), and stakes wins (49).
Carters Cartel
Stel Corona
• 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 1,629 foals included 1,221 starters and 762 winners.
• Stel Corona’s average earnings per starter leads the list of $9 Million Sires at $25,073, and his leading money earner accounted for the most earnings among the group (Foose, $1,616,938).
• Rocket Wrangler is the only AQHA Hall of Famer among the $9 Million Sires.
$8 Million
• The $8 Million Sires represent 2.5% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Four of the $8 Million Sires, or 31%, are Thoroughbreds.
• One of the $8 Million Sires was born in 2000 or later – Foose (2006). 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), winners (741) and Register of Merit offspring (801).
• Two $8 Million Sires have a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Foose (Foose Cash SR, $1,235,544) and Pie In The Sky (Heavenly, $1,045,796).
• Zevi TB has the most stakes winners among the $8 Million Sires at 61. Check Him Out has the least with 18.
• Bully Bullion has the most race age foals among the $8 Million Sires with 1,695. Foose has the least at 505, and Apollo TB follows at 570.
• Foose leads the $8 Million Sires by average earnings per starter at $29,193.
• The Thoroughbred Zevi has the highest winners-to-starters ratio of any $8 Million Sire at 68%.
• Ronas Ryon is the only AQHA Hall of Famer among the $8 Million Sires.
Foose
Check Him Out
Bully Bullion
Ronas Ryon
• The $7 Million Sires represent 2.9% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Hempen is the only Thoroughbred among the $7 Million Sires.
• Coronas Leaving You, born in 2005, is the youngest of the $7 Million Sires. Wave Carver, born in 2003, is the next youngest.
• Top Moon has the most race-age foals (1,829), starters (1,340), winners (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).
Coronas Leaving You
$7 Million
• Coronas Leaving You
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 $29,533, followed by Make It Anywhere with $29,138.
• Brookstone Bay is the only $7 Million Sire that had a leading earner who made more than $1 Million – Runnning Brook Gal, $1,363,012.
• Eight $7 Million Sires achieved their status with leading money earners that did not earn more than $500,000.
• Go Man Go and Tolltac have the highest percentage of winners-to- starters at 71%.
• Make It Anywhere has the highest percentage of stakes winners-to- starters at 13%.
• Two of the $7 Million Sires are in the AQHA Hall of Fame: Go Man Go and Top Moon.
Wave Carver
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