Stephen Foster G1

Please excuse the first post on this blog as I had trouble showing the list of champions and their dams. The computer compressed the list taking away the space between the columns. We'll see if we can fix that problem in this week's addition.

We are going to profile all of the grade 1 and grade 2 stakes winners each week showing the winners racing index as well as the racing index of their dams. I might make a few comments on the female family if I see something that may be of interest. Here is the list of last weeks major graded stakes winners.

Race..............................................Winner...................index.......................dam.......................index

Stephen Foster H.........Macho Again.........29.03.................Go Donna go..............2.23
Californian Stakes.........Informed.................7.43..................Cajun Two Step........1.99
Ogden Phipps H............Seattle Smooth.....25.78.................Our Seattle Star.........unr
Jefferson Cup H............Florentino...............6.24..................Must Be Loved..............0
Fleur De Lis...................Miss Isella..............13.56.................La Cucina....................unr
Queens Plate.................Eye ofthe Leopard.35.88................Eye of the Sphynx..44.33

All of these major winners are out of relatively slow mares with the exception of Eye of the Leopard. Since this is a rarity It would be wise to look at his dam to try to figue out why this would occur. First, Eye of the Sphynx started only 7 times which is very positive for a potential broodmare. Short racing careers can be very positive for both sires and dams. Second, both Eye of the Leopard's sire, A P Indy, and the sire of his dam, Smart Strike are leading sires. The sire of the his granddam is Vice Regeant, also a very influential sire. I would suspect that given the weak field that Eye of the Leopard faced in the Queen's Plate that his racing index will come down and may end up below that of his dam. We'll have to wait and see. Keep in mind that the Queen's Plate is a race restricted to Canadian Breds and has a $1,000,000 purse