So You Think $66,000 !!!!!

If you exclude his Irish-bred crops and you exclude his current-season juveniles, you're looking at 6.2% stakes winners from southern hemisphere-bred runners.  For Australian runners only, he has 484 runners for 32 stakes winners--6.6%.  For all but one year, the trend has been more stakes winners than the years before (3-7-4-9-12 to end of last season, 5 so far this year).  That's on par with Zoustar's Australian runners (6.4% SW/R) and not far off Lonhro's Australian runners (7.2% SW/R).

Distance-wise, the majority of his runners are winning between 1200 - 1600 m.  Same with stakes winners...1200 - 1600 m.  There are more races and there is more aggregate prizemoney in Australia at those distances, so if a horse can win at that distance that's where they'll race (much to Djebels' annoyance), rather than wait for fewer races as 2300m +.  

Where he falls down hard, and this was also true of his sire, is that his fillies aren't as good as his colts.  On average his colts earn more than twice of what his fillies earn, despite having statistically identical numbers of starters, winners, and stakes winners (this also says that his stakes-winning fillies are more likely to be listed class than group class).  Although it's early yet, Dundeel is showing the same pattern.  It tookHigh Chap 9 seasons at stud to get his first Gr-1 winning fillies -- Hiyaam in AUS and Cascapedia in SAf -- the former being out of a 3/4 sibling to Octagonal and the latter being out of a Dansili daughter from the family of Irish champion Al Bathari and multiple HK champion Military Attack.  That's the quality of mare it takes to get a Gr-1 winning filly from this sireline.  

I do agree that $77,000 is higher than his sales currently support, which is basically true of the Coolmore roster in general minus Fastnet Rock.  At a median sales price of $100K, a fee of $50k is more likely to turn a profit.  Buyers have noticed this; in general, his colts are selling for more than his fillies.  So, better to breed and sell a colt, better to buy a filly.