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Interesting Stats, Facts and Figures
THE YOUNGEST:
Three sires are tied for the youngest stallions to reach million-dollar sire status. They are Valiant Hero, Tac It Like A Man, and Ivory James, all of which were foaled in 2004.
THE OLDEST:
Two million-dollar sires were born in the 1940s—Three Bars TB (1940) and Top Deck TB (1945).
THE LEAST:
Rabbits Rainbow became a million-dollar sire with the fewest number of registered race- age foals and least number of starters. From only 47 foals, he is the sire of 28 starters that have earned $1,231,960 including leading earner Rabbit Revival $316,132.
JJ Shot Glass and First To Flash tied for second with 57 registered foals each, while Tac It Like A Man had the second-fewest number of starters with 41, all of which are from his first crop that raced in 2011.
Rabbits Rainbow
THE MOST:
Pacific Bailey led all million-dollar sires with the greatest number of registered foals at 2,942, with 1,326 starters. Easy Jet had the most starters, with 2,019 from 2,507 registered foals.
WINNER, WINNER!
#6 Million Dollar Sire Easy Jet has sired the most winners and also has the most wins, as his 1,382 winners came home first in a total of 3,973 races.
STAKES
SIRE:
#1 Million Dollar Sire
First Down Dash leads the way in stakes winners and stakes wins, as he has sired 232 stakes winners that have won 467 stakes races. Of course, the
Stoli
Only 38 Million-Dollar Sires have at least one million-dollar earner. They are:
Stoli (Stolis Winner $2,235,161); Rare Jet (Refrigerator $2,126,309); Corona Cartel (Blues Girl Too $2,032,328), Light On Cash (Winalota Cash $1,952,848); Feature Mr Jess (Heartswideopen $1,885,283); Separatist (DM Shicago $1,873,730); Texas Dancer
TB (Eastex $1,869,406); Master Hand TB
(Mr Master Bug $1,793,718); Windy Ryon (Ronas Ryon $1,777,976); Dash For Cash (Dashingly $1,754,323); Takin On The Cash (A Delightful Dasher $1,660,525); First Down Dash (Ocean Runaway $1,642,498); Pine’s Easter Jet (Higheasterjet $1,633,035); Stel Corona (Foose $1,616,938); Teller Cartel (Llano Teller $1,575,609); Tres Seis (Tres Passes $1,504,928); Favorite Trick TB (Good Reason SA $1,446,727); Mr Jess Perry (Apollitical Jess $1,399,831); Mr Eye Opener (Eyesa Special $1,394,911); Duck Dance TB (Merganser $1,373,704); Brookstone Bay (Runnning Brook Gal $1,363,012); Royal Quick Dash (AB What A Runner $1,342,389); Chicks Beduino (Whosleavingwho $1,334,842);
Walk Thru Fire (Higher Fire $1,314,742); Bono Jazz (Be A Bono $1,313,347); Strawfly Special (Tailor Fit $1,296,752); Beduino TB (Strawberry Silk $1,266,263); Raise Your Glass TB (Special Effort $1,219,949); The Down Side (Double Down Special $1,211,934); JJ Shot Glass (By By JJ $1,207,274); Special Effort (Elans Special $1,186,540); Streakin
Six (Noblesse Six $1,125,024); Dashing Val (Vals Fortune $1,111,591); Fishers Dash (Dashing Knud $1,080,048); Pie In The
Sky (Heavenly $1,045,796); Pritzi Dash (Catchmeinyourdreams $1,042,077); Easy Jet (Mr Trucka Jet $1,033,115); Daddy Hold On (SLM Big Daddy $1,013,550).
Easy Jet
all-time leading sire of money earners is also the leading Million-Dollar Sire, with $76,994,176 in foal earnings.
First Down Dash
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