Toho Emperor
Toho Emperor has an amazing Race Record of 33 Starts, 20 Wins, 5 Places, 2 Shows. NAR (Japan District Racing Organization) Horse of the year in 2001, 2002.
Hail To Reason
Bred by the Bieber-Jacobs Stable in America, Hail to Reason was the Champion US 2YO in 1960, winning 9 races from 18 starts. He subsequently fractured both sesamoids in his near fore and was retired to stud.
A masculine looking, big brown stallion, Hail to Reason was a much taller horse that his sire to whom he bore a resemblance. Inbred 4 x 4 to Plucky Leige, one of the greatest sire-making mares in thoroughbred history, Hail to Reason was Champion US Sire in 1970. Through the deeds of his sons Roberto, Halo and Stop the Music he built a reputation as a sire of sires.
Sunday Silence
He Won a total of 9 races out of 14 they inculed Breeders' Cup Classic, Super Derby, Santa Anita Derby, Preakness, Kentucky Derby, San Felipe Handicap, the Californian.
Sunday Silence entered stud in 1991. Champion Sire in Japan from 1994 to 2000. Sire of 658 progeny to race, 457 winners (69.5%), progeny earnings of over JPY 27,000,000, 57 stakes winners, 39 stakes placegetters
He was the 1989 Horse Of the Year. Stood in Hokkaido, Japan at Shadai Stallion Station. The most successful sire in the world by progeny earnings. Died 19 August 2002 result of laminitis.
Halo
Bred by John R. Gaines, Halo won 9 of his 31 race starts with the high-point of his racing career being his win in the United Nations H-G1. At the end of his 5YO season, Halo was sold for US$1 million (and syndicated for $1.2 million) to stand at Windfields Farm, Maryland.
In 1984, following the sale of 25 of the 40 syndicate shares for US$900,000 each, Halo moved to Kentucky where he spent the remainder of his life at Arthur Hancock's Stone Farm. Halo was Champion USA Sire in 1983 and 1989. He sired the winners of US$42.7 million; his 62 stakes winners included the Kentucky Derby winners Sunday Silence and Sunny's Halo. As a broodmare sire, Halo has 102 stakes winners to his credit. His Group 3 winning daughter Coup de Folie proved to be an outstanding stud matron.
With the likes of sire sons Devil's Bag, Sunny's Halo, Don't Say Halo, Saint Ballado and Southern Halo successfully representing him at stud, Halo's greatest contribution to the thoroughbred world must be the Japan-based super sire Sunday Silence. This former Horse of the Year and Champion 3YO, who Arthur Hancock fought so desperately to syndicate as a sire in America, has been nothing short of a phenomenon since taking up stud duties at Shadai Farm in Japan.
Alydar
Alydar was an American thoroughbred race horse who was most famous for finishing a close second to Affirmed in all three races of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, a feat not repeated before or since and he most licky would of wo the triple crown if it hadnt been for Affirmed.
In his career, Alydar won 14 of 26 starts, finishing second 9 times and third once. He earned purses totalling $957,195. Alydar raced against Affirmed ten times in his career, winning three times. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1989.
Alydar was a major success as a stallion. His offspring include Alysheba, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Classic, plus others such as Easy Goer, Turkoman, Strike the Gold, Criminal Type, Althea, and Miss Oceana.
On November 13, 1990, Alydar shattered his right hind leg in his stall at Calumet Farms in Lexington, Kentucky. Emergency surgery was performed the next day in an attempt to repair the injury, but the leg broke again. On November 15, Alydar was euthanized by lethal injection. Some have questioned the circumstances leading up to Alydar's sudden leg injury.
