MR. PROSPECTOR

'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 pricey 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 provided 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.

Contents

Ancestry

Progeny

References

External links

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 of complications from colic at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was buried between Nijinsky and Secretariat.

Progeny

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

★ Mr. Prospector

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★ Fappiano (foaled 1977)

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★ Cryptoclearance (1984)

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★ Victory Gallop (1995) 1998 Belmont Stakes

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★ Quiet American (1986)

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★ Real Quiet (1995) 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

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★ Unbridled (1987) 1990 Kentucky Derby

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★ Grindstone (1993) 1996 Kentucky Derby

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★ Birdstone (2001) 2004 Belmont Stakes

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★ Red Bullet (1997) 2000 Preakness Stakes

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★ Empire Maker (2000) 2003 Belmont Stakes

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★ Conquistador Cielo (1979) 1982 Belmont Stakes

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★ Tank's Prospect (1982) 1985 Preakness Stakes

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★ Woodman (1983) (has sired 94 stakes winners)

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★ Hansel (1988) 1991 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes

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★ Timber Country (1992) 1995 Preakness Stakes

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★ Gulch (1984)

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★ Thunder Gulch (1992) 1995 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes

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★ Point Given (1998) 2001 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes

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★ Gone West (1984)

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★ Elusive Quality (1993)

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★ Smarty Jones (2001) 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

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★ Commendable (1997) 2000 Belmont Stakes

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★ Afleet (1984)

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★ Northern Afleet(1993)

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★ Afleet Alex (2002) 2005 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes

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★ Forty Niner (1985)

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★ Editor's Note (1993) 1996 Belmont Stakes

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★ Distorted Humor (1993)

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★ Funny Cide (2000) 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

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★ Seeking The Gold (1985)

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★ Jazil (2003) 2006 Belmont Stakes

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★ Machiavellian (1987)

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★ Street Cry (1998)

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★ Street Sense (2004) 2007 Kentucky Derby

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★ Kingmambo (1990)

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★ Lemon Drop Kid (1996) 1999 Belmont Stakes

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★ Our Emblem (1991)

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★ War Emblem (1999) 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

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★ Smart Strike (1992)

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★ Curlin (2004) 2007 Preakness Stakes

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★ Fusaichi Pegasus (1997) 2000 Kentucky Derby

References

★ Mr. Prospector's pedigree with photo

★ Mr. Prosprector Profile

External links

★ About Mr. Prospector

★ Forbes America's Most Valuable Studs