Jazil’s younger sister Rags to Riches would put Better Than Honour in the Triple Crown record books a second time when she would win the 2007 Belmont Stakes only a year after her brother.
The Seeking the Gold colt would win the 2006 G1 Belmont Stakes and place second in the G2 Fountain of Youth, starting a chain of successful offspring. However, the filly’s best success has come in the breeding shed where she is the dam of the 2009 Glorious Song Stakes winner Cascading.īetter Than Honour would first make it into the record books with her third foal, Jazil.
The mare’s first foal, Teeming, won three of her four races. The only broodmare to get more than two Twitter mentions was the Deputy Minister mare Better Than Honour. So without farther ado, here are 13 mares that immediately come to racing fans' minds when they think of broodmares of the 21st century.Īuthor's Note: The criteria for who was chosen for this slideshow included if the majority of their winning foals raced after 1999 and how successful their foals have been. Due to this, 13 amazing mares that have proven to be nearly as valuable in the breeding shed as they are on the track are being covered in this slideshow. The replies were numerous and varied, with only two mares getting more than one vote.
So when a mare throws more than one stakes performing foal, she immediately draws attention to herself.īut while some mares seem to disappear from fans' minds, others etch their way into a spot in fans' hearts.īecause of this, when choosing broodmares to showcase in this article, I decided to open the voting up to racing fans and posed a question on Twitter: Who are your top 10 broodmares of the last 12 years? In a sport where it's hard to make it to the top, many horses are lucky to even run in a graded stakes race.
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