{"id":11676,"date":"2018-04-28T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T01:06:23","slug":"stud-notes-malibu-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/stud-notes-malibu-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stud Notes: Malibu Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What\u2019s not to love about Malibu Moon? Perhaps his curmudgeonly displeasure at open house stallion shows at Spendthrift, where viewers are warned not to pet or offer fingers to the old man, now 21. But currently at number eight on the leading stallions list, with his Magnum Moon considered the favorite for the upcoming Kentucky Derby, and his sons turning into sires themselves, he seems a bargain at $75,000, while the Tapits and War Fronts of the world are priced far higher. Malibu Moon has already sired a Kentucky Derby winner, Orb, and his list of graded stakes winning sons and daughters takes over his page in the Stallion Register.<\/p>\n

His wonderful pedigree, free of both the Storm Cat line and the Unbridled line, says that he is likely to get a big horse from just about any good pedigree. Indeed, inbreeding to Mr. Prospector is rampant among his best get, as is inbreeding to Northern Dancer, as his dose of Nijinsky II, four generations back on his dams\u2019 side, is the little black dress of pedigrees\u2014it goes with anything, and goes anywhere.<\/p>\n

I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention my own relationship with Malibu Moon. I own a Malibu Moon mare, out of a Grade 1 winning Gone West mare, and she is representative of what he can create. With her huge hip, broad, heavily muscled chest, and gaskin like a body builder\u2019s upper arm, she\u2019s a gorgeous, stout mare with an intelligent temperament. She looks like Daddy, though without his irascibility. And a couple of years ago, I advised a client to breed his graded stakes winning mare to Malibu Moon, and got a beautiful baby\u2014just ask the KBIF\/KTDF representative who came out to inspect it.<\/p>\n

Spendthrift declares Malibu Moon to be \u201cA.P. Indy\u2019s Leading Sire,\u201d and, though he may not be as flashy as Tapit, or as fashionable as Flatter or Congrats, his greatness cannot be questioned. With the recent loss of Giant\u2019s Causeway, Malibu Moon is certainly the eminence gris <\/em>of stallions. If Magnum Moon wins the Derby, expect his father\u2019s stud fee to reflect it, making this the year to breed to Malibu Moon. If his book isn\u2019t already full.<\/p>\n

— Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"What\u2019s not to love about Malibu Moon? Perhaps his curmudgeonly displeasure at open house stallion shows at Spendthrift, where viewers are warned not to pet or offer fingers to the old man, now 21. But currently at number eight on the leading stallions list, with his Magnum Moon considered the favorite for the upcoming Kentucky Derby, and his sons turning into sires themselves, he seems a bargain at $75,000, while the Tapits and War Fronts of the world are priced far higher. Malibu Moon has already sired a Kentucky Derby winner, Orb, and his list of graded stakes winning sons and daughters takes over his page in the Stallion Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}