Ballymac Vic has moved into clear second place on the open race sires table though he is still has barely half the number of winners of his own sire, Kinloch Brae.

Kinloch Brae 67 567 £66,350 131
Ballymac Vic 36 389 £21,400 74
Tullymurry Act 41 462 £37,225 68
Droopys Scolari 33 429 £16,700 59
Droopys Cain 27 555 £13,725 52
Droopys Jet 30 463 £9,900 40
Scolari Me Daddy 19 467 £23,200 40
Tyrur Big Mike 18 427 £10,150 36
Zero Zen 22 405 £8,675 36
Superior Product 21 464 £9,225 35
Head Bound 18 459 £8,025 34
Taylors Sky 16 491 £21,375 34
Sparta Maestro 19 467 £8,325 31
Ballymac Eske 16 558 £12,425 28
Laughil Blake 18 421 £7,125 28
Godsend 10 500 £9,520 27
Romeo Recruit 14 487 £6,425 26
Aero Majestic 11 573 £13,300 25
Ace Hi Rumble 11 430 £5,125 21
Vans Escalade 11 533 £8,900 20
Loughteen Blanco 7 487 £4,425 18
Candlelight King 7 497 £5,075 17
Paradise Madison 15 512 £3,775 17
Iso Octane 9 447 £8,050 16
Definate Opinion 5 454 £4,275 15
Crash 9 498 £3,875 14
Mall Brandy 10 520 £3,650 14
Hondo Black 6 542 £5,250 13
Razldazl Jayfkay 7 536 £22,800 13
Razldazl George 5 565 £3,275 12

Interestingly, the average winning distance of the progeny of the father and son is greatly contrasted. While Brae is a sire of all distances, Vic is more of an early paced specialist. Indeed of his 74 winners to date, there is only one six-bend winner among them, Pro Magic, who was successful over 575m at Romford.

Breeding students will recall how Sean and Michael Dunphy put faith in the lightly raced Droopys Scolari, despite a racing career of just eight races. The blue duly went on to become a far better sire than his more successful elder brothers, Droopys Maldini and Droopys Marco.

Although Droopys Cain (Ace Hi Rumble-Droopys Laramie, Mar 00) had four more races than Scolari, he has been a revelation at stud, and interestingly, offers runners for a variety of distances.

 

For those looking at the gene pool a little deeper, there remains a strong Aussie influence in the sire lines.

Super sire Brett Lee appears on the top lines of Ace Hi Rumble, Crash, Droopys Cain, Tyrur Big Mike, Sparta Maestro, and Laughil Blake.

Fellow Aussie Head Honcho can be found via Tullymurry Act, Head Bound, Ballymac Eske, Candlelight King, Paradise Madison and Mall Brandy. The Aussie ranks are further topped up by the Godsend, Romeo Recruit, Iso Octane and Definite Opinion.

Kinloch Brae obviously lead the USA influence along with sons Ballymac Vic, Razldal Jayfkay and Razldazl George. Former champion sire Hondo Black is still visible along with his son Aero Majestic. There is more American influence via Zero Ten, Superior Product and Vans Escalade.

The only major Irish/British line traces through Droopys Scolari and his sons Scolari Me Daddy and the exported Loughteen Blanco, with Taylors Sky also from a predominantly home bred sire line within three generations.