English channel, Oscar Performance Turf Runners Shine

Nobody disputes the place that racing dirt in North America. One glance at the top springs whose offspring are on that surface and it is currently very similar to the overall classification based on the profit. But switch to the list of the Turf Sires’, and although a number of very well -known and very successful sires are mentioned, there is much more diversity among the stallions.

In the top 10 there are two names with two very different CVs that stand out: English channel and Oscar -Performance .

Although the English channel died in 2021, it is still well represented by his descendants, because his last crop is 3 years old this year. The 2007 Graspaard champion and the English channel demonstrably reached the zenit of his strength as father at the time of his death at 19. He placed four consecutive years as the top father of the Turf (2020-23), and until last year, only once since 2013, he was finished with a ranking worse than seventh. He was ninth in 2024. The English canal is fourth this year.

He was excellent on the peat and registered a figure of 13-4-1 of 23 Starts and $ 5,319,028 in income. He led the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T) three years in a row, improved his finish every year and eventually won in 2007. He had five degrees 1 wins and was second four other times.

But for a remarkable runner as he was, he was just as productive as a father. He was one season in Hurricane Hall, Lane’s end for seven and the rest on Calumet Farm. He conceived several degrees 1 winners, including the Pizza Man, Travers Stakes (G1) winner Ve Day, Parranda, Optimizer and Heart to Heart. In recent years, his estate have cemented by its three biggest runners: Channel ” War as goddess And Farmer .

Channel Maker is the 2020 champion Turf Male and 2017 Sovereign Award winner for the top 3-year-old; Winner of several degrees 1 War Like Goodess is a four-time Breeders’ Cup participant; And three times winner of grade 1 Far Bridge recently won the Bowling Green Stakes (G2T).

Just like the English channel, Oscar Performance enjoyed Success Racing on the Grass, and his stallion career continues to show promising. That he was a very good runner should have been no surprise. He was champion Turf Horse Kitten’s Joy by 2004, who hit the board in all 14 starts. At Stud he finished twice on top of the List General Sires. Almost seven months to the year, Oscar performance is the 10th ranking grass father due to offspring income.

After sixth in his debut, Oscar Performance then won three consecutive, including the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T). His 3-year campaign started with a few Speedbobbels before he straightened the ship directly with three more victories, plus a third in the Joe Hirsch Stakes (G1T) for a disappointing finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T).

Through three years of racing, Oscar performance was 8-0-1 of 15 Starts with $ 2,345,696 in win. He also collected five degrees 1 wins.

Among his classmates, Oscar Performance has always been a striking father of Turflopers. As a father of Turflopers, he was first under the first-crop Sires in 2022, then sixth under the second crop-sires, second under the third crop Sires of 2024, and is in third place this year. But a look at his climb between all the peat -sires puts his rise in a better focus.

On that list, his first two crops left him on the 54th and 45th respectively. But 2024 saw him catapult to the 10th under Turf -Sires largely behind the success of his son Trikari, Those five top-five finishes had. Just like his father, Trikari won the use of Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) and Secretariat (G1T) on the way to the 23rd highest earning horse of 2024.

Although Trikari is so far the only winner of Grade 1 of Oscar Performance, the father has seven other Graded Stakes winners, although not all on peat. Andthewinneris ” Endless ” Dashman And Rashmi have won on the turf. Another of the offspring of the father, the 3-year-old Colt Beater Was 1 1/4 lengths for winning the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes of this year in what his first Gradse effort was. This year he is the top runner of Oscar Performance so far.

It seems safe to say that the days of Oscar Performance under the best peat -sires have just begun. This year he stood at Mill Ridge Farm near Lexington for $ 45,000.