Mixer Gallops

[Tammy Stawicki]

How'd everyone do?

Here are my numbers, all paint middle/sprint
Year 64
Stakes = 3 (7.1%) (mid = Soren & Empressum, sprint = More Cow Bell)
Allowance = 28 (66.7%)
Productive = 10 (23.8%)
Solid = 1 (2.4%)

Total = 42

Stakes are down a little from last year on par to two years ago, another solid allowance year though as I'm sure you're all aware there is a huge range in the talent of allowance gallopers so time will tell whee they fall on the spectrum.

[Hope Bentley]

No freaks in the mixers still…

But I got some some nice stakes.
Appaloosa: 3 stakes
By Storm Brewing Near(Lots of Fun mare)
Revenue(Eq Cab Etat mare)
Point of the Axe(Cascading Carnage mare)

Arabs: 1 Stakes by Cass Ole(Wait But Why mare)

Paint: 2 Stakes
By Macha Taima (Arlo mare)
Silver Kitty Cat (Soren mare)

QH: 5 Stakes
Silver Kitty Cat (It Isn’t Enough mare)
Freighttrain D (Sober Sunday mare)
That’s Incredible (Quick Tella Story mare)
Saf Temting Dude( Ardyn mare)
Happy Conversation ( Saf Temting Dude mare)

Trotter: stakes 6
Photobomber (Tls Pegasus)
Bhs Bad Guy (Doodle Town)
Tls Enchanted Isle (Tls Captain Jack S)
Beneficial(Tls Roger Rabbit)
King Cartier(Tls Pegasus)
King Cartier(Devon Castle)

This is from over 1000 horses bred. A bunch of nice allowances in the group.

[Lisa Bennert]

I'm really sad about my Arabians and Appy mids... They used to be my favorite divisions but they've been declining steadily the last few years and now I didn't even get a stakes yearling. So if anyone has some nice mares - I'd really love to lease them!

The other divisions were meh - Pacers I got this stakes bloomer out of my beloved millionaire Changes by Prodigal Son, really hope he will improve.

Paints I got just one random stakes peak colt by Arlo out of mediocre mare.

Appy routers were by far the best with 3 stakes from 6 bred. Sired by Jamaicanmecrazy, Monkey Brew and Dashs Gold Digger.

Overall I'm disappointed with zero freaks and low stakes percentage (I bred 6-12 per division) :/

[Mr. Lord Rich]

I don't think I have bred a natural born freak in 4 seasons. All my current freaks are from improvements.
I guess it doesn't matter as long as they win races =)

[Laura Ferguson]

I'm really sad about my Arabians and Appy mids... They used to be my favorite divisions but they've been declining steadily the last few years and now I didn't even get a stakes yearling. So if anyone has some nice mares - I'd really love to lease them!

The other divisions were meh - Pacers I got this stakes bloomer out of my beloved millionaire Changes by Prodigal Son, really hope he will improve.

Paints I got just one random stakes peak colt by Arlo out of mediocre mare.

Appy routers were by far the best with 3 stakes from 6 bred. Sired by Jamaicanmecrazy, Monkey Brew and Dashs Gold Digger.

Overall I'm disappointed with zero freaks and low stakes percentage (I bred 6-12 per division) :/

If it is any consolation on the appy mid front, Act One, who won the Steward's Cup, was allowance progressive (and still is, after the year turnover).

[Calia Mendez]

I bred 93 Arabian sprinters and 36 Arabian routers. The three stakes I got were:

Stakes Progressive router filly from Jett Reno (Breathe Desert Air mare)
Stakes LB router filly from Hate Crystal (Thesee mare)
Stakes Progressive sprinter colt from Able Squire (Talib mare)

That's one of the first Stakes-galloping sprinters I've gotten post-gallop adjustment, so I'm very excited about him. The router fillies are closely related on the female side (the dam of the Jett Reno is the second dam of the Hate Crystal).

Overall, the results are...

Arabian Sprinters:
1 Stakes Progressive
37 Allowance (14 LB, 17 Progressive, 6 Peak)
28 Productive (14 LB, 10 Progressive, 4 Peak)
14 Solid (8 LB, 6 Progressive)
13 Claimer (6 LB, 6 Progressive, 1 Peak)

Arabian Routers:
2 Stakes (1 LB, 1 Progressive)
10 Allowance (all LB)
15 Productive (5 LB, 8 Progressive, 2 Peak)
7 Solid (3 LB, 3 Progressive, 1 Peak)
2 Claimer (1 LB, 1 Progressive)

It's a little more skewed towards Solids and Claimers than usual, but I was also throwing nice mares at a disappointing stallion and giving a few low-producing mares one last chance. Now I can go through and see who I should give up on.

I am really pleased with the allowances and up. I found a Stakes gallop to be a good indicator of actual stakes potential for Arabian sprinters before the adjustment— which I don't deny was needed, but has made it a little frustrating for me personally. It's some consolation that, as a result, any one of those allowances could end up being a reliable stakes horse. Most of the foals I had hopes for ended up at allowance.

[Jo Ferris]

I actually had a pretty underwhelming crop. I did try to avoid the top stallions, going for more diverse options so I'm not too surprised or disappointed as some are nice looking broodmare prospects as well as I tried new stallions and learned a bit. I also didn't have time last week to actually look at how smart my choices were and just quickly bred everyone to the booked stud. Not to mention, I'm due for a "meh" crop, had quite a few excellent crops in a row.

Anyway, here's the breakdown:
1 Freak (.4%, Apollitical Pence x Heroes Never Die filly, yes she will be getting sold)
2 Stakes (.9%, QH Sprint - Deniro [Half to Remington], Paint Mid - Soren)
121 Allowance (52.2%)
87 Productive (37.5%)
19 Solid (8.2%)
1 Claimer (.4%, this was an experiment with Zandvoort and a route mare, the other Zandvoort router was Productive/late)

Overall, the lack or Stakes+ is rough, but I'm still quite happy with this crop, over 50% were allowance which I think is still quite good, lots of improver types

[Michael Looker]

Appy Sprinters: 21 total, one stakes (late bloomer by Eq Cab Etat), the rest 12:8 allowance/productive.
Appy Mids: just the one; an allowance late bloomer, which seems a lot more promising than it did before I saw Laura's post. I haven't played in this division for a LONG time, so the one mare I had left - the dam of this one - died giving birth at 22.
Appy Routers: 6 total, 3:3 allowance/productive.

Paint Sprinters: 5 total, 2:3 allowance/productive.

QH Mids: 9 total, 3:2:3 allowance/productive/okay.

Arabian Router: Just the one, an allowance.

43 total, 0/1/23/16/3/0/0. Only five of 43 are peak right now, so plenty of room for improvement.

[Polk Buffalo]

Appys 145 bred
0 Freak, 6 stakes (4,1%)
Stakes by:
Capacity to win x2
Father lucifer
Eq Cab Etat x2
Appsolutely T (sprinter)

Paint 138 bred
1 freak, 10 stakes (13,8%)
Freak by:
Cousin Brucie
Stakes by:
Arlo
Sorenx4
Cousin Bruciex3
Son of a paint (miler)
Flight Romance

QH 142 bred
0 freaks, 7 stakes(4,9%)
Stakes by:
The Full Montyx4
Appolitical Pence
Empressum
Eyes for gold

Arabian sprint 115 bred
0 freaks, 5 stakes(4,3%)
Stakes by:
Able Squirex2
Free Popcornx2
Frontier Apples

Arabian route 191 bred
1 freak, 22 stakes(11,5%)
Freak by:
Stuffed pepper
Stakes by:
Stuffed pepperx9
Yobokix5
Mighty tofux2
Tallaab al Khalediahx2
Midnihte sandstormx2
Jett Reno
Miracle

Pacer 67 bred
0 freak, 4 stakes(5,9%)
Stakes by:
Mainstreamx3
Tall Dark stranger

Trotter 45 bred
0 freak, 4 stakes(8,9%)
Stakes by:
State of Euphoriax2
Photobomber
Raider

[Andrea Bouwkamp]

Arabian route
53 bred
2 freaks. One progressive, one LB
8 stakes. Four progressive, three LB
25 allowance. 13 LB, seven progressive
17 productive. 6 LB, five progressive

Arabian sprint
17 bred
0 freak, 0 stakes
8 allowance. 4 LB, 4 progressive
4 productive. 3 LB, one progressive

Paints
11 bred
0 freak, 0 stakes
7 allowance. 5 LB, two progressive

Appaloosa
Four bred.
One Allowance, 2 progressive, all LB

Quarter horse.
32 bred
0 freak, 0 stakes
14 Allowance. 3 LB, 9 progressive
8 Productive. 3 LB, 4 progressive

Pacers
28 bred.
0 freaks. 2 stakes, one LB
8 Allowance. 4 LB, 2 progressive

Lol. I really wasted money breeding my QHs and Pacers this year.

I was very happy with my Arabians though.