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Possibly but I didnt think Galileo (who was incredibly welll bred IMO) had a great first year at stud, yet he still had an unbeaten (at the time) Oaks favorite, and Irish Guineas winner, the first three home in the St Leger and a Breeders cup turf winner. Not to mention a lot of decent horses like guilia, innocent air, tears of a clown, purple moon etc.
On thing that has seemed apparent to me is that he appears to be better with his fillies than colts. But he hasnt really excelled as yet. Will keep watching him though.
I too really love High Chaparral, but he never received as high a rating as Galileo did for both his King George and the Irish Champion he lost to Fantastic Light.
HC was a thoroughly admirable, consistent and brave absolutely top-class horse, but perhaps he wasn’t as brilliant or visually exciting as Falbrav or Dalakhani both of whom achieved higher ratings than HC in 2003.
I think he was possibly underrated by some in 2002 because Rock of Gibraltar’s 7 consecutive G1 wins and dominance of his 8f division was impossible to outshine.
HC was a wonderful horse but perhaps didn’t have as much charisma as some of the other stars of those years.
He really deserves more time to shine as a stallion, but they don’t seem to get much time these days. Here’s hoping….
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