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Erin Sanderson
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Crappiest Best Mare?

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I am bored, and since we have the other thread, how about we talk about those mares that were terrible racehorses, got less than a blue hen broodmare comment (stars with terrible race records definitely accepted), probably hypomated something awful...and still turned out to be amazing in the shed. These kinds of surprise mares are all sorts of fun. I'll start.

High Dreams. I claimed her (just because she was a granddaughter of Sway) for only $25k. She was a productive galloper, retired as a formidable broodmare (and stayed formidable when blue hens and stars were introduced, as I think they were during her breeding career), and never hypomated above a flat B with ANYTHING. I tried. Ants Marching, Easy On the Eyes, Maelstrom, You Are I Am, Rambling, she was just kind of "meh" to all of them. She got $8.8 million in progeny earnings, her son Through the Ghost got over $20 million, and her daughter Lady So Divine got over $4.6 million, including one of the current hottest DR sires.

Startling Gaze. Bred her out of a mare I bought from AJ for $1k, by a $10k stallion. I don't remember what she galloped, but it couldn't have been too great (not in her history). Probably productive. Couldn't win in 5 starts. She only produced one good one, but that filly is one of the best I've ever owned and her female family is still around producing freaks and champions, so Startling Gaze herself couldn't have been all bad.

I've had a good few others that were honest surprises, but none so much as those two. Show me your out-of-nowhere star producers.
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Danny Derby
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I’m really confused how this is different from the other thread
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Danny Derby wrote: 2 years ago I’m really confused how this is different from the other thread
Because these mares actually produced where in the other thread they did not
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Andrew Chillin
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Yea. Vise versa
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So, Nyan Cat was who I posted in the other thread.

As it turns out, I think Nyan Cat's dam, Arctic Bird, is my best fit for this thread. A $700k Stewbred who was sired by my homebred SC Turf(!) winner Pingu, who didn't end up being that good of a stallion but I just wanted a stewie sired by one of my own so very badly. Arctic Bird won one race and earned 28k on the track and, judging by her B+ and B hypos, she was likely a formidable broodmare though I don't have an actual comment on her that's visible. But she ended up producing two stakes winners, one of whom was the aforementioned Nyan Cat, who I honestly think is the main reason I didn't quit after year 41.
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I have a couple:

By far my best mare ever:
Moon of Atlantis (Formidable, B+ to Reddington but B to everything else)
-3 Freaks, 4 Stakes, 2 Allowance, 1 Productive and 1 Claimer
-Dam of 2 SC winners, 6 millionaires, 3 multi-millionaires
-2 Very successful stallions produced and multiple group 1 producing mares

Still going but already doing really nice:
See You When (Formidable, gets alright hypos tbf)
-2 Stakes, both millionaires and one multi-millionaire
-Dam of a very promising stallion

Hard to say with this one but first foal is a freak so...
Isla Fisher ($500 claim, Formidable)
-Freak producer

Guess I have good luck with formidables!
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Miss Note (https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1028447) was pretty meh on the track and was rated unpredictable, but she has produced a stakes galloper who won a stakes race on his debut and an allowance galloper that's currently a yearling in her first two babies.
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Carole Hanson wrote: 2 years ago
Still going but already doing really nice:
See You When (Formidable, gets alright hypos tbf)
-2 Stakes, both millionaires and one multi-millionaire
-Dam of a very promising stallion
Nice mare! What gallop is her yearling?
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Andrew Davidson wrote: 2 years ago
Carole Hanson wrote: 2 years ago
Still going but already doing really nice:
See You When (Formidable, gets alright hypos tbf)
-2 Stakes, both millionaires and one multi-millionaire
-Dam of a very promising stallion
Nice mare! What gallop is her yearling?
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So a couple of Sim years ago, I decided to check the bloodstock agents comments before pensioning my unraced mares that had galloped productive and below. If they rated "formidable" or better, I bred them. Yellowtail, out of my stakes winning but less than stellar producer Sauvignon Blanc (out of 7 foals, her best 2 galloped allowance) - fit the criteria (galloped "solid", was "formidable") The resulting yearling- Double Dog Dare Ya - galloped "freak.
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