1970 - 1999

MR. PROSPECTOR

A Remarkable Sire

RAISE A NATIVE - GOLD DIGGER, by NASHUA
Lifetime Race Record: 14-7-4-2, $112,171

Owned by Abraham I Savin
Bred by Leslie Combs II
Trained by Jimmy Croll

1987-1988 - Leading Sire
1997-2003; 2005-2006 - Leading Broodmare Sire
1979; 1987; 1989 - Leading Juvenile Sire
1978 - Leading Freshman Sire

Marquee Races Won

Gravesend Handicap
Whirlaway Handicap
Set a track record for 6 furlongs at Gulfstream Park in an allowance race of 1:07-⅘.

Accomplished Progeny

Afleet

Canadian Horse of the Year; Sire

Aldebaran

Champion sprinter; Sire

Conquistador Cielo

Belmont Stakes winner; Horse of the Year; Sire

Coup de Genie

French Champion Two-year-old Filly

Dancethruthedawn

Champion 3-year-old Filly & Hall of Fame inductee in Canada

Distant View

Champion Three-year-old Colt in Europe and England; Sire

Eillo

Champion Sprinter

Fappiano

Grade 1 winner; Sire of Siresgone

Forty Niner

2-Year-Old Champion Colt; Leading freshman sire; Sire of sires

Fusaichi Pegasus

Kentucky Derby winner; Sire

Golden Attraction

Champion Two-year-old Filly

Gone West

Multiple Grade 1 winner; Champion sire

Gulch

Eclipse Champion Sprinter; Millionaire; Sire

It's in the Air

Co-Champion Two-year-old Filly

Kingmambo

Multiple Grade 1 winner; Influential sire

Machiavellian

French Champion Two-year-old Male; Sire

Preach

Grade 1 winner; Dam of Pulpit; Bred by Claiborne

Proskona

Champion Three-year-old Filly in Italy

Queena

Champion Older Mare; Grade 1 producer

Rhythm

Champion Two-Year-Old Male; Sire

Seeking the Gold

Multiple Grade 1 winner; Leading sire & broodmare sire

Smart Strike

Multiple Grade 1 winner; Champion sire

Tank’s Prospect

Preakness Stakes winner; Sire

Woodman

Irish Champion Two-year-old Male; Leading sire

The Keeneland July saletopper in a crop that also included Secretariat, Mr. Prospector distinguished himself on the racetrack as a record-setting sprinter, counting the Gravesend and Whirlaway among his seven wins in 14 starts. He began his stud career in Florida, but Mr. Prospector’s move to Claiborne Farm in 1980 was significant enough to be included in the book Horse Racing’s Top 100 Moments. The relocation “created an opportunity as big as the equine gene pool… Claiborne already had access to some of the country’s best broodmares. The combination of these mares with Mr. Prospector’s ability to throw a high percentage of stakes horses elevated him from the status of great sire to one of the four most influential sires of the late twentieth century. The other three dominant sires were Nasrullah, Northern Dancer, and Bold Ruler.”

His remarkable achievements as a sire, broodmare sire and sire of sires are unparalleled. Noted for passing on speed, precocity and classic ability, Mr. Prospector sired 181 stakes winners from 986 starters (19%), 113 graded stakes winners, 46 Grade 1 stakes winners, and 22 Champions in his stud career of which the last 19 years were spent at Claiborne. One noteworthy feat was siring winners of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont — the next sire to do so was his grandson, and also a Claiborne stallion, Unbridled. Other successful sires from his male line include: Distorted Humor, Seeking the Gold, Smart Strike, Forty Niner, Fappiano, Gone West, Kingmambo, Street Cry, Afleet, Birdstone, Cryptoclearance, Dubai Millennium, El Corredor, Elusive Quality, Gulch, Miswaki, Machiavellian, Quiet American, Thunder Gulch, and Woodman. The two-time Leading Sire also topped the broodmare sire list in nine out of ten years from 1997 through 2006. His daughters have produced nearly 220 Graded stakes winners and the earners of nearly $400 million, including champions Dayjur, Mineshaft, Hollywood Wildcat, and Tempera, as well as prominent sires Pulpit, Flatter and Malibu Moon.

Died June 1, 1999. Buried at Claiborne Farm.

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