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$10 Million+
• The 65 stallions that have surpassed $10 Million in progeny earnings represent 11.67 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 Freighttrain B (2008), One Sweet Jess (2008), 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 and
in 2019 sired $8,235,512), Tempting Dash (2007), Favorite Cartel (2007), Foose (2006), Jet Black Patriot (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).
• Oak Tree Special has the fewest number of race age foals in this category at 574. Dash Ta Fame leads the Million Dollar Sires overall with 3,345 race age foals.
• Hall of Fame inductee First Down Dash is the Million Dollar Sire with the most start- ers with 2,489. Hall of Fame inductee Easy Jet is second (2,504), followed by Hall of Fame inductee Chicks Beduino (2,072),
$9 Million
• Therearefive$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 Big Daddy Cartel, born in 2009.
• Amongthe$9MillionSires,EasilySmashed has the most race age foals with 1,667. Sir Runaway Dash has the fewest race age foals (482) as well as stakes winners (14) and stakes wins (24), while Big Daddy Cartel has the fewest starters (332), winners (188), wins (351).
• 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.
• Big Daddy Cartel’s average earnings per starter leads the list of $9 Million Sires at $28,198. On A High’s leading money earner accounted for the most earnings among the group (See Me Do It, $913,464).
• Rocket Wrangler is the only AQHA Hall of Famer among the $9 Million Sires.
Corona Cartel (1,935) Mr Jess Perry (1,871) and Mr Eye Opener(1,501). Freighttrain B has the least number of starters in this cat- egory with 656.
• Freighttrain B has the fewest number of win- ners among the $10 Million Sires with 397, while First Down Dash has the most at 1,451.
• 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 (1,451), Easy Jet (1,382), Chicks Beduino (1,129) and Corona Cartel (1,095).
• Runners by First Down Dash have the most overall number of wins at 4,072. Freighttrain B runners have the least number of wins at 485 behind by Tempting Dash with 541.
• 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 (184), Mr Jess Perry (156), Dash For Cash (145), Easy Jet (145), Chicks Beduino (141) and PYC Paint Your Wagon (118).
• First To Shine has the fewest number of stakes winners of the $10 Million Sires with 15, fol- lowed by Freighttrain B with 19.
• Only one Million Dollar Sire overall has sired combined progeny that have won more than 500 stakes races – First Down Dash with 512.
• 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 and Teller Cartel with 39 each.
• First Down Dash, Easy Jet, Chicks
Beduino, 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 earn- ings per starter among all Million Dollar Sires at $61,205, followed in the $10 Million category by One Famous Eagle ($43,283), First Down Dash ($41,979), Corona Cartel ($40,569) and Heza Fast Dash ($39,095).
• Tres Seis, the #17 all-time leading sire of money earners with over $25 million, is the sire of AQHA’s #1 all-time leading money earner – Ochoa with $2,781,365.
• Of the 26 stallions with $20 million or more in offspring earnings, eight are in the AQHA Hall of Fame: Chicks Beduino, Dash For Cash, Easy Jet, First Down Dash, Mr Eye Opener (the most recent inductee in 2020) Mr Jess Perry, 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, Run- away Winner Special Effort and Streakin Six.
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