Help me pick a baby daddy? (for a horse, obviously)

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Nicole Marie
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Help me pick a baby daddy? (for a horse, obviously)

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Halley is retiring in two weeks and I have...uh, absolutely no idea what to do about her first date, to the point where I've considered running her at seven just to avoid having to figure out what her pedigree wants to mesh with. That played a pretty big part of why I decided to run her at six instead of retiring her alongside Eloquent Sound. (Although I have made a firm decision on this front and she is retiring.)

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Em wanted to buy her, so that tells me that something out there has potential...
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...but when giving her pedigree after her SC win last year, Em said "by Blast Onepiece of all random horses in the SIM."

There's the versatility thread going on right now about how real life lines can be fun and Halley's by a real life sire, but I don't know how much that helps me. Halley is his top earner and only millionaire; every one of his six figure earners were something other than AWS (they're all AWM, AWR, TM, and TR) so I don't know if Halley was an anomaly or if maybe his best strength was always going to be AWS and he just mostly got mares from other divisions.

Halley's dam is a formid, and the only gallop level she hasn't thrown is different career. Halley's a 'longer career' freak but I've had stakes longer careers be blue hens so I feel she could be anywhere from formid to hen herself.

She will probably go to Lloyd's Keeping It at some point, but I feel like that's the easy option and I don't really feel her going to him first. There are only about 60 sires in AWS and over 200 in other divisions, which is why I'm wanting to avoid LKI at first since I worry that the division is going to bottleneck.

So I guess, to anyone out there who wants to throw a name out, if she was yours what would you consider doing/what would your line of thinking be? Obviously I'll be hypo-ing her once she retires, but I thought I'd see if anyone else has either ideas for stallions or tips on how to narrow it down. She has won from 5 to 7 1/2 furlongs, but I honestly don't even know how much sprinters care about distance differences/if they do as much as routers do.

I do have a stallion I am slightly leaning towards (which could change if she doesn't hypo well to him) but I'm just curious what others might think (and curious if anyone will say the stallion I'm leaning toward right now).

Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to share their thoughts! (EDIT: I've had a couple people send me PMs and that's also perfectly fine if you don't want to respond here! I appreciate all thoughts.)
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Breed the best to the best Lloyd looks forward to see her :) GL in whoever you choose.
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Joseph Depaulo wrote: 1 month ago Breed the best to the best Lloyd looks forward to see her :) GL in whoever you choose.
He will see her eventually ;) She's just gonna make him wait a bit. :lol:
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I would say consider Illegalist. He will pension in 2 seasons, so, very limited window to breed to him.
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If she ends up being versatile as a broodmare, there's always Marowak ;)
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Emaraaty Ana looks like he's setting up to be pretty nice. According to the Stud Book he's multi-talented, but AWS is one of his listed divisions.
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Throwing in a suggestion for versatile stallion Elite Power. Halley does seem to be an anomaly and other AW stakes winners by Blast Onepiece are, like you said, either milers or routers which Elite Power covers too.
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Thank you everyone!
Brian Leavitt wrote: 1 month ago If she ends up being versatile as a broodmare, there's always Marowak ;)
I love Marowak so I'd love it if she was!
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Brian Leavitt wrote: 1 month ago If she ends up being versatile as a broodmare, there's always Marowak ;)
So she's actually an A- to Marowak! :lol:
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And after MUCH deliberation, including two sim years, this thread, PMs with people, and screaming into the Autumn Blackmill void (thanks girl lol) here is her foal! Like her mama, 'very sound' and 'brave.'
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And this baby is stakes late bloomer! Now the pressure all over again for this year, lol
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