Extra Extra: Kentucky Derby Winner Looks Like a Sire

Besides Street Sense, as Andrew Caulfield detailed yesterday, we have to go back nearly 25 years to find the last GI Kentucky Derby winners to make successful sires, and in fact there were two major sires: Sunday Silence won the 1989 Derby, and Unbridled was the winner in 1990. With I’ve Spent It’s game win in Sunday’s GII Saratoga Special–he threaded the needle and got an inside run, much as Seek Again (Speightstown) had the day before in the GII Fourstardave–WinStar’s 2010 Derby winner Super Saver, a WinStar homebred by Maria’s Mon out of an A.P. Indy mare, has gone to the head of the class on the 2014 TDN YTD First-Crop Sire List (click here–All).

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