Mr. Prospector

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Sire: Raise a Native
Grandsire: Native Dancer
Dam: Gold Digger
Damsire: Nashua
Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1970
Country: USA
Colour: Bay
Breeder: Leslie Combs II
Owner: Abraham I. Savin
Trainer: Jimmy Croll
Record: 14: 7-4-2
Earnings: $112,170
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Gravesend Handicap (1974)
Whirlaway Handicap (1974)
Racing Awards
Leading sire in North America (1987 & 1988)
Leading broodmare sire in North America
(1997-2003, 2005-2006)

Infobox last updated on: February 5, 2007.

Mr. Prospector (1970-1999) was a thoroughbred racehorse who won half of his 14 career starts, but whose descendants have come to dominate the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

An also-ran in the year the great Secretariat won the Triple Crown, Mr. Prospector's sire was Raise A Native, a son of Native Dancer and out of the Nashua mare, Gold Digger. A $200,000 yearling in 1971 (a pricy sum for the early 1970's), "Mr. P", as he came to be known, was trained by Jimmy Croll, a Hall of Fame member who went on to train the great Holy Bull.

Mr. Prospector managed to set track records for six furlongs (1,207 m) at Gulfstream Park and Garden State, but his racing record had little inkling of his success as a breeding sire.

One of Mr. P's most remarkable feats was siring one winner of each of the Triple Crown races, a feat his grandson, Unbridled, has also accomplished. His Triple Crown race winners were the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, a promising young sire; 1985 Preakness Stakes winner Tank's Prospect; and 1982 Belmont Stakes winner and Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, Conquistador Cielo.

[edit] Ancestry

In tail-male descent (traced entirely through males, the line in which Mr. Prospector has made his mark), Mr. Prospector descends through the Darley Arabian. Virtually all horses of this line alive today descend through Whalebone (foaled 1807), via Stockwell (1849). And the overwhelming majority of these descend from Stockwell's grandson Bend Or (1877) through his great-great-grandson Phalaris (1913). Successful sire-lines continue to crowd out less successful ones as breeders seek successful bloodlines, and in recent years Mr. Prospector has appeared likely to join this catalogue of likely tail-male ancestors of major racers, whether they be heavily promoted and trained and owned by prominent figures, or "Cinderellas" like Smarty Jones or Funny Cide.

On June 1, 1999, Mr. Prospector died in his stall at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky.

[edit] Progeny

Mr. Prospector in an impromptu family tree with his sons, their sons, and their sons, etc., with Triple Crown races won:

[edit] References

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