Impact Sires

Three sires with 200+ year-starters recorded APEX (Annual Progeny Earnings IndeX) A Runner Index (ARI) figures of 4.00 or higher for the seven-year period 2007-2013, according to data provided to us through the end of 2013 by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). Japan’s Deep Impact (4.59) is the overall leader for the second straight year, dethroning eight-time APEX ARI leader A.P. Indy. However, because Japan is more or less a >stand-alone’ country in that there is very little shipping in or out (they tend to ship out for top international races, in which their record is plenty good enough to confirm their racing is now of a top international standard), we actually now list Japanese sires separately from North American and European sires. At the end of 2012, separating Deep Impact and other Japanese sires out, A.P. Indy (4.03) edged out Galileo (4.02) to claim his ninth APEX North American/European Sire Championship. This year, Claiborne’s War Front (4.29) claims the top spot over Coolmore’s Galileo (4.03), with Lane’s End’s A.P. Indy (3.86), now retired, back to third.

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