Just For Fun- Curlin's stud fee

[DLee]

Maybe we should start a pool? :lol:

I'm going to say.... $150,000. What do you guys think?

[texang73]

Oh, I'd say more than that... maybe $300,000?

[VirginiaBred]

I'm thinking $200,000 :cool:

[ravenclaw]

Gosh, I was thinking $100,000. Maybe I'm being too conservative. :lol:

Besides the stud fee, any guesses on where he will stand? Does any farm besides Darley have a chance?

[Hunters Peak]

If he retires as the all time North American leading money earner. I imagine he will be in the $150,000-$200,000n range. It looks like that is going to happen, so his book will fill easilt at that price.

[LaurieB]

Right now I'm thinking $100,000. Bear in mind that Smart Strike has only 2 other sons standing at stud, English Channel and Tenpins. English Channel is a 6 time G1 winner, including the Breeders Cup, an Eclipse award winner, and he earned more than $5,000,000. And he stands for $25,000.


As for the farm, Jess Jackson and Frank Stronach have partnered on a number of deals so it wouldn't surprise me to see him end up at Adena.

[miss_critic]

Curlin is the best horse right now. But other horses have done as much or more than him so I don't see why, at this point, his stud fee would be over the top. And being the leading earner means nothing. Curlin isn't a legend yet.

[Galileo1998]

With his dam line from a logical point of view anything more than $50,000 would be too much, but I expect it will be more in the region of $100,000 if he continues to be a sucess on the track.

[DLee]

I figure since Street Sense is at 100k, he'll have to be more than that.

[Texarkana]

I figure since Street Sense is at 100k, he'll have to be more than that.

Street Sense's fee is only 75k.

[DLee]

Oops! I knew that too.

[InWhyCee Redux]

$200K, since that's what Fusaichi Pegasus got, inexplicably, for his debut season. (Last year he was down to $75K). Amazing that Cigar only got $75K a decade ago.*

*Before they found his swimmers didn't swim, of course. ;)

[Drvmb1ggl3]

The only thing amazing about Cigar's stud fee was how high it was. His pedigree wasn't exactly unfashionable.

FuFeg's initial stud fee was $150k, and while over inflated, it was set on the back of being a Derby winning son of Mr P, with Danzig as damire.

Curlin would hardly command a higher stud fee than his sire, who stands for $150k. Also, as has been pointed out, his dam side isn't exactly sexy.

[LaurieB]

$200K, since that's what Fusaichi Pegasus got, inexplicably, for his debut season. (Last year he was down to $75K).

After a poor year in 2007--only 3 stakes winners, ranked 80th on the General Sires List--FuPeg is down to 45K for 2008.