| The Showcase Stallion
Directory provides photographs and continuously updated information on
dozens and dozens of Western stallions and includes:
A pedigree-only
feature that makes it possible to leaf through the stallions' pedigrees,
one by one. Click here to begin.
For breeders seeking specific
bloodlines, a sire index shows the sires found in each Showcase
stallion's pedigree, with the generation in which they occur.
Click
here for that list.
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
Beau
Genius
Birdonthewire
Boomerang
Cahill
Road WA
Capsized
Cascadian
OR
Category
Five ND
Cromwell
AZ
Decarchy
Defy
Logic
Delineator
WA
Deputy
Commander
Dismissed
Event
of the Year
File
Away UT
Flame
Thrower
Flying
With Eagles WA
Free
At Last WA
Freespool
Fruition
Fullbridled
Game
Plan
Golden
Gear AZ
Good
Journey
Harbor
the Gold OR
He's
Tops WA
Highland
Gold
Illinois
Storm
Indian
Country
Iron
Cat
Katowice
WA
Lacey
Evitan
Liberty
Gold WA
Lit
de Justice
Market
Forecast
Matty
G WA
Mixed
Pleasure OR
Mr.
Broad Blade
Mud
Route
Muqtarib
Olympio
Onebadshark
Perfect
Mandate
Poteen
Private
Gold WA
Raise
the Bluff WA
Redattore
(Brz)
Robannier
Royal
Cat
Sea
of Secrets
Slew
of Angels
Soft
Gold (Brz) OR
Sought
After
Soul
of the Matter
Spensive
Stormy
Jack
Suances
GB
Swiss
Yodeler
Tannersmyman
Temescal
Ridge
Unbridled
Native
Uncle
Denny
Under
Caution
Unusual
Heat
Via
Lombardia (Ire)
Vronsky
You
and I WA
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