OASIS DREAM TOPS TDN TABLES

Article taken from the TDN by Bill Oppenheim

The famous Abbott and Costello 1937 vaudeville routine, which took flight from first base in a baseball game, asked who’s on first, but the meaning has broadened a little bit to also include the question, as we apply it, who’s in first position?

Among graduating North American and European third-crop sires from 2009, that would be Juddmonte’s English-based OASIS DREAM, who really started to make the news when his second crop of two-year-olds, racing in 2008, included a record-tying 38 juvenile winners.

He literally went from strength to strength in 2009, finishing up third on the 2009 European Sire List (per Hyperion Promotions), behind only Cape Cross and Danehill Dancer, and narrowly ahead of Galileo and Montjeu. He’s the leading third-crop sire in six different categories on the TDN lists: number of winners (159); black-type winners (27); black-type horses (45); graded/group stakes winners (26); graded/group stakes horses (30); and earnings - over $13.5 million, almost $3 million ahead of second placed EMPIRE MAKER.

In the category of black-type winners, of which OASIS DREAM has 27, Dalakhani is a distant second (15), ahead of EMPIRE MAKER and High Chaparral (14 each), with Mineshaft and Sky Mesa next, with 13 each.
Similarly, OASIS DREAM has 16 graded/group winners; Dalakhani and High Chaparral are tied for second with 10 each, followed by Sky Mesa (8) and EMPIRE MAKER (7).

In a sire crop in which the Europeans hold the advantage, OASIS DREAM now ranks among the world’s elite, and Dalakhani and the rapidly improving High Chaparral make a pretty good case for European dominance among F2005 sires.

Date: 14 April 2010