Mr. Prospector would easily be one of the best sires of all time. His total of 165 stakes winners is a record. He was leading sire and broodmare sire twice during his stud career from 1977 to 2000. There is no doubt that his influence as a stallion and as a broodmare sire will last for years to come in the thoroughbred industry.........read the full article
Achates was one of the first horses selected by me. I studied the 1990 auction catalog and came across this horse by the new stallion Tecorno out of Smooching. Smooching I saw was from the Pretty Polly family and her dam Close Relation was a sister to Great Nephew. In 1990 you couldn’t get better than this......read the full article .
In April 1999, on one of the last days of the Bombay season, my trainer and friend Narendra Lagad came and sat with me in my box to watch a race. A very well bred filly named La-Bella was running and she ran a dead last.......read the full article .
A lot of people have been of the opinion that the great Coolmore stallion Sadlers Wells, although a champion sire on many occasions isn't a sire of sires. Also, the son of Northern Dancer topped the sire list many times but failed for many years to get the ultimate in racing…a winner of the Epsom Derby. This jinx was broken in 2001.....read the full article when
