This week, Andrew Caulfield discusses Alydar's success as a broodmare sire, but relative lack of prowess as a sire of sires. The Hall of Famer most known for finishing second behind Affirmed in all three legs of the 1978 Triple Crown, Alydar is the dam sire of last Saturday's GI Man o' War S. winner and 2009 champion older male and turf male Gio Ponti (Tale of the Cat).
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