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The Showcase Stallion Directory provides photographs and continuously updated information on dozens and dozens of Western stallions and includes:
Each stallion website includes a standard four-generation pedigree, but in addition a link following that pedigree will take you to a pedigree page that can be printed out separately.
An important aspect of the Showcase Stallion Directory is that all stakes information is based on blacktype rules, requiring that any race designated as a "stakes race" must carry a minimum purse value. Originally, that minimum was $15,000. It has been increased through the years to $25,000 in 1990, to $30,000 in 2002, $35,000 in 2003, $40,000 in 2004, and $45,000 in 2007 and will be increased to $50,000 in 2008.
Races between that minimum and $75,000 are designated "O." Those at $75,000 and above but not stakes races are designated "L." Stakes races are designated at three levels: Grade 1 (G1), Grade 2 (G2), and Grade 3 (G3), with G1 being the best. "R" denotes a race with entry restricted to horses meeting some criterion, such as state of foaling. "N" denotes a stakes race not qualifying for black type.
Early on, when blacktype rules were being devised, there was a brief period during which allowance races carrying a certain minimum purse were given black type. Those races were designated as "Q" races. In the same period, fourth-place finishers in graded races were awarded black type.
In contrast, all printed stallion registers follow what are known as "stakes rules," permitting any added-money race, no matter how small the purse, to be counted as a stakes race. The Showcase Stallion Directory ensures that stakes races listed are races of genuine quality. This distinction is not made available in stallion registers published, for example, by California Thoroughbred, The Blood-Horse, and Thoroughbred Times.
Exception: On Showcase websites for stallions standing outside California, stakes rules are followed.
Now, here are the Showcase stallions. All stand in California except those followed by the abbreviation for the states in which they stand. To go to a stallion's website, click on his name.
Atticus
Bedford Falls
Cascadian NM
Category Five MN
Decarchy
Drum Major
Free At Last WA
Fullbridled
Game Plan
Good Journey
Harbor the Gold OR
Lit de Justice
Matty G WA
Mixed Pleasure OR
Mr. Broad Blade
One Man Army
Perfect Mandate
Polish Miner WA
Poteen
Private Gold WA
Raise the Bluff WA
Roi Charmant
Royal Cat
Soft Gold (Brz) OR
Spensive
Suances GB
Sundarban
Swiss Yodeler
Tannersmyman
Ten Most Wanted
Unusual Heat
Vronsky
To The Thoroughbred Showcase of the West home page.
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