Calumet’s Farm Keen Ice was the seventh second-season stallion since 2000 to have a mare win the Kentucky Derby (G1) in the first season and the eighth to have a first-season mare cross the line first in the tournament. America’s top classic.
10 year old son of Curlin There were 137 ponies in the second year of racing, of which 78 started and 20 became winners. His son Rich Strike checked a lot of boxes for the steed on May 7 when it became the first ranked bet winner, first first place winner and first classic winner.
A stallion’s first crop is often the strongest of his first four books, the first year being an important part of giving him the best possible start in school. . According to the Comparative Index, Keen Ice’s first book on mares is a relative prolific producer as his first two books are combined. The CI is an income-based index similar to the Average Income Index, except that the CI considers the average earnings of all other ponies produced by mares bred to one stallion. certain varieties.
The CI for Keen Ice’s first book is 1.24, which means that on average the descendants of other stallions born to mares he bred during his first year at the school in 2018 earn averaged 1.24 times more than all other athletes racing in the same country during the same year. His first two books have a combined CI of 1.27. The CI in his first crop was 16th highest for his brood class, the top three as ranked by CI include The Farm’s Three Chimneys Gunman (3.12), late Juddmonte Farms . sire Interrogation (2.36), and Claiborne .’s farm Competently (2.12).
Gun Runner represented by two who started the Kentucky Derby with Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Taiba 12th place finisher and winner of the Arkansas Derby (G1) Cyberknife 18 years old.
Arrogate is not represented by a Kentucky Derby starter but by his daughter Secret Vow won the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) May 6 by two lengths. This cat is a cross between Robert and Stacy Mitchell’s Briland Ranch and was trained by D. Wayne Lukas.
Other second-season stallions to win the Kentucky Derby since 2000 include Bodemeister in 2017 with Always dreaming , Uncle Mo in 2016 with Nyquist Birdstone in 2009 with Mining that bird Street Cry 2007 with Street Sense Distorted humor in 2003 with Funny Cide, and Maria’s Mon in 2001 with Monarchos. Protonico had a son who made his first rope crossing last year at the Kentucky Derby with Medina Spirit The person was then disqualified due to being positive for the drug.
With the exception of Maria’s Mon, all of the stallions that won this first Kentucky Derby were stallions that won or were placed in a North American or European classic race. Curlin won or ranked in each of the 2007 Triple Crown races, finishing third in the Derby, winning the Preakness Stakes (G1) and finishing second in the Belmont Stakes (G1). Waving Monarch, Maria’s Mon courtier, only contested the Kentucky Derby and had no place, so Maria’s Mon made up for it by picking two Kentucky Derby winners — Monarchos and Super Saver in 2010.
