By Bill Oppenheim
It's interesting to look at the TDN Year-to-Date General Sire List (click here) just now. Four NA/EU sires have 2014 progeny earnings over $5 million. Of course one's immediate thought is what impact the three races on Dubai World Cup night might have had: the $10-million G1 Dubai World Cup, with $6 million to the winner and even $2 million to the second; the G1 Duty Free and G1 Sheema Classic, each with $3 million to the winner. As it happens, both the latter two races this year were won by Japanese-breds, the Duty Free won by Just A Way (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), the Sheema Classic by Gentildonna (Deep Impact {Jpn}). Incidentally, you may wonder, as I did, why Deep Impact is then included on the TDN YTD GSL (#16, $3,000,000 exactly) and Heart's Cry isn't. There is an answer, which is that Deep Impact is counted because he has runners in 2014 in North America or Europe, while Heart's Cry doesn't.
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