Leroi, ‘The Giant’ Top AW Sire

We first planned to run the statistics on the sires of all-weather runners before the Keeneland meet began, so TJCIS (The Jockey Club Information Systems) ran them for us on Apr. 2, after Dubai World Cup night. Since then, Britain had its first racing ever on Good Friday, highlighted by a ,1-million card on Lingfield’s AW surface (which attracted a capacity crowd of nearly 9,000), and Keeneland has announced that it is going back to dirt. So this month’s AW racing is not included in these statistics. However, in the 8 1/2 years since Turfway Park kicked off all-weather racing in North America in September, 2005, at the tracks covered for this report (North America and UAE; Britain, France, Ireland, and Italy under ‘foreign’; data provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc.), 5,311 different stallions have sired 135,117 individual runners on the AW, which have earned a shade under $1.9 billion– $1,890,094,115, to be precise. Many thanks to Brianne Stanley and Gary Hadden, who burned the midnight oil to calculate the AW average-earnings indexes and perform other miracles from the TJCIS data.

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