How are we doing?

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phillllly sarrrr — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:35:07 GMT

hha my bad. that didnt cross my mind when i sent this comment. they must have some nice purses in japan.

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Blood-Horse Staff — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:51:44 GMT

Ted - Cribnote's win was certainly impressive and we invite discussion on any and all maidens (in fact, there were comments about Cribnote's win). But, I am not adding any stallions to the list at this point. By the way, Cribnote's debut was one of the races featured on the blog.

If you want to follow all of the offspring of Read the Footnotes and comment on them, that would be great. Same goes for anyone else for any other first-year stallion.

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Ted — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:05:10 GMT

What about Read The Footnotes... was that win by Cribnote not impressive at Saratoga enough?

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tbpartnerperson43 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:05:36 GMT

Thank you so much for the summary!!! Now I will sit down and watch the top earners of each first year stud on Racereplays.com. This is really nice.

Philllllly sarrrr - to explain further, a horse can be on the board a lot and not win and accumulate more earnings than one who wins just once. Thus Smarty's leading earners.

I wouldn't mind a horse that hit the board all the time in my partnership. LOL And I would love to have a Peace Rules baby. He was special.

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Blood-Horse Staff — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:43:02 GMT

phillllly sarrrr - Smarty Jones has 2 winners, La Equivocada and Keefer. The horses listed are not his winners, they are his Top Earners. La Equivocada has earned $6,270. Cosmo Pirate, who finished 2nd in one start, has earned $25,950.

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phillllly sarrrr — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:34:09 GMT

smarty jones has 3 winners. you forgot to mention la equivocada..his filly who won in puerto rico by 5 legnths.

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Blood-Horse Staff — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:24:03 GMT

El Kabong - When this blog was first started, we decided to follow several 1st-crop sires. Readers suggested others and we ended up with a list of 8 - Birdstone, Congaree, Medaglia d'Oro, Peace Rules, Pleasantly Perfect, Saarland, Smarty Jones, and Speightstown.

Other first-crop stallions are discussed when they have offspring in our races, but the stallions above are followed in more detail. Lion Heart's name certainly comes up a lot since he is the leading freshman sire, but he is not on the main list.

This is not a list of the top first-crop sires, this is a list of how the ones that we have been following have been doing so far.

I do not have a financial interest in these stallions or in any stallion. They are "our" boys because we have been following them closely for the past 5 months.

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El Kabong — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:18:39 GMT

Why is Lion Heart not listed?

When you say "our boys" do you mean you have financial interests in these stallions?

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Rachel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:54:03 GMT

It's nice to see the early results for Medaglia D'Oro and Peace rules...I always thought they were such honest horses and it's nice to see the indications they will be honest sires.