{"id":207,"date":"2007-06-07T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T03:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2007-06-07T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T04:22:53","slug":"dams-of-futurity-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Dams of Futurity champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/Royal%20and%20Elaine.jpg\" \/>My posts of <a title=\"First foals the best?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=201\">May 26<\/a> and <a title=\"First racing foals best?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=205\">June 4<\/a>, regarding birth order in relation to performance, prompted one reader to recall an article published several years ago about Thorougbred birth order.<\/p>\n<p>As he remembers, the findings indicated that &#8220;the fourth foal of an 11-year-old dam were the most robust and most promising candidates for performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along those lines, another reader wondered which dams of NCHA Futurity Open champions were themselves money earners and which ones were the best (money earning) producers. I was curious, too, so the results are listed below:<\/p>\n<p>24 of the 44 dams (information not available for the dam of Rey Jay&#8217;s Pete and Poco Lena produced two Futurity winners) were money earners with three of them ranked among the Top 100 all-time cutting money earners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Playboys Madera &#8211; $570,819 &#8211; dam of Playboy McCrae, 1996 champion<\/li>\n<li>Royal Blue Boon &#8211; $381,763 &#8211; dam of Peptoboonsmal, 1995 champion<\/li>\n<li>CD Chica San Badger &#8211; $279,038 &#8211; dam of CD Olena, 1994 champion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12 of the 44 dams are ranked among the Top 100 all-time cutting producers (through 2005), with earnings of more than $425,000, including 5 among the Top 10. Royal Blue Boon (pictured with owner Elaine Hall) tops the list of 100:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Royal Blue Boon &#8211; $2,609,608 &#8211; dam of Peptoboonsmal, 1995 champion<\/li>\n<li>Jazabell Quixote &#8211; $1,239,452 &#8211; dam of July Jazz, 1989 champion<\/li>\n<li>Lynx Melody &#8211; $1,191,951 &#8211; dam of Shania Cee, 1999 champion<\/li>\n<li>Smart Peppy &#8211; $1,153,762 &#8211; dam of Smart Little Lena, 1982 champion<\/li>\n<li>The Smart Look &#8211; $1,055,191- dam of One Smart Lookin Cat, 2003 champion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My posts of May 26 and June 4, regarding birth order in relation to performance,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}