12th May 2020
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Smart Strike, one of the last major sons of Mr P still active in the breeding shed, was euthanized last week after suffering from laminitis
There are critics who feel the Mr Prospector male line has not been effective in South Africa but is this true? Sarah Whitelaw investigates.
Forty Niner retired to Claiborne Farm with many feeling that he was the heir apparent to his own sire, Mr Prospector.
In the last ten years, a Northern Dancer male line descendant has headed the general sires log in eight years.
In winning the first British classic race of 2014, Night Of Thunder also became the fifth male line descendant of Mr Prospector to win the 2000 Guineas
North America’s graded stakes races this year have been dominated by the progeny of former Breeders Cup Juvenile winner, Unbridled’s Song.
When making a list of outstanding stallions, it is easy to focus on a few big horses, rather than an individual stallion’s overall stud record.
Few would deny that Mr Prospector was one of the greatest, and most influential, stallions in history.
SARAH WHITELAW: So who are the young generation of stallions who could yet turn the tide for a weakened band of US sires?
SARAH WHITELAW: Mr Prospector was a truly great sire, and a superb broodmare sire. He is arguably best known as a legendary sire of sires.
There was a unique South African connection in the background as the Ralph Beckett-trained Bluestocking charged to victory under Rossa Ryan to win the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday
