Malibu Moon's racing career

[Calzone Lord]

Based on his racing career, Orb's sire Malibu Moon didn't achieve very much on the track:

Here are Malibu Moon's pp's:

http://www.drf.com/sites/default/fil...ibu%20Moon.pdf

However, sons of A. P. Indy simply are never as good going short. Malibu Moon ran two nice figures at distances of 4.5 furlongs and 5 furlongs in his only two career starts, and that demonstrates special potential.

No offspring of A. P. Indy has ever won a race at Saratoga at the distances of six furlongs or less. Dreaming of Julia (out of the sensationally fast Rick Violette front-running sprinter Dream Rush) had a chance to break that last season at Saratoga... but Pletcher debuted the A. P. Indy daughter at 6.5 furlongs instead of 6 furlongs...and the streak still lives on.

By the way, here are the lifetime past performances of the 2nd and 3rd place finishers in Malibu Moon's lone career win:

* Family Hero, 2nd to Malibu Moon in his career debut, ended up with a 2-for-30 lifetime record. He was trounced in cheap claiming races at the end:

http://www.drf.com/sites/default/fil...ily%20Hero.pdf


* Terror To Go, 3rd to Malibu Moon in his career debut, ran three abysmal races and was toast:

http://www.drf.com/sites/default/fil...%20To%20Go.pdf


Malibu Moon might be the best stallion in thoroughbred racing right now ... but his racing career is a case of what might have been... primarily because of who his sire was. For a son of A. P. Indy, he sure did have proven sprint speed.

[Calzone Lord]

Here's an amusing fact.

Malibu Moon and Fusaichi Pegasus were both foaled in 1997.

Malibu Moon's stud fee his first year was $3,000

Fu Peg's stud fee his first year was $150,000

Right now, Malibu Moon stands for $70,000 and Fu Peg stands for just $7,500

[VOL JACK]

Next year Malibu Moon will be 100k and Fu Peg will be 5k.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

Next year Malibu Moon will be 100k and Fu Peg will be 5k.

Despite the incredible amount of success Malibu Moon has had to come from nothing (he spent the first 3 years of his stallion career standing at 3K) I was surprised to see that he's still only sired two different millionaires ... Orb and Life At Ten.

Declan's Moon did win a 2yo championship, but only made it to 705k in earnings.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Despite the incredible amount of success Malibu Moon has had to come from nothing (he spent the first 3 years of his stallion career standing at 3K) I was surprised to see that he's still only sired two different millionaires ... Orb and Life At Ten.

Declan's Moon did win a 2yo championship, but only made it to 705k in earnings.

Consider Bernardini's first books vs. Malibu Moon's.. Its rare these types that never had success on the track end up being useful. Its rare the ones that were successful on the track are successful stallions as well. There was this guy who used to post here named rollitomasi, he used to say "you never know", he was right

[Calzone Lord]

The great Rollo Tomasi.