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$8 Million
• The 17 $8 Million Sires represent 3.05% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Four of the $8 Million Sires, or 23.5%, are Thoroughbreds. •
$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.
Azoom
with 9, followed by Ocean Runaway (19). Make It Anywhere has the highest average earnings per starter with $27,201.
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 16.82%, followed by Make It Anywhere at 16.47%.
Make It Anywhere has the highest percentage of stakes winners-to-starters at 11.5%.
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. Chicks Regard has the least at 393.
• Genuine Strawfly leads the $8 Million Sires by average earnings per starter at $29,297.
• Reb’s Policy TB has the highest winners-to- starters ratio of any $8 Million Sire
at 16.64%.
• Ronas Ryon is the only AQHA Hall of Famer among the $8 Million Sires.
Chicks Regard
Bigtime Favorite
• Three of the $8 Million Sires were born in 2000 or later - Wave Carver (2003) Azoom (2002) and Brookstone Bay (2001). Five were born in the 1990’s - Check Him Out (1999), Chicks Regard (1999), Genuine Strawfly (1999), TR Dasher (1998) and Dash Thru Traffic (1990). The oldest
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Bully Bullion Check Him Out
$7 Million
• The $7 Million Sires represent 2.15% of all Million Dollar Sires.
• Hempen is the only Thoroughbred among the $7 Million Sires.
• Furyofthewind, born in 2003, is the youngest of the $7 Million Sires. Bigtime Favorite and Ocean Runaway, both born in 2002, are 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
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Ocean Runaway
Go Man Go
Top Moon
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