{"id":4529,"date":"2007-08-06T22:35:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=4529"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=4529","title":{"rendered":"Fastnfirm\u2019s Weird World of Sires: Dispersal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoBodyText style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\">So I said I\u2019d write about little-known or little-used sires in the sim, and it\u2019s been a LONG, LONG time since I wrote such an article.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Here\u2019s hoping I can get back on the ball.<\/P><P class=MsoBodyText style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\">Dispersal, a 1986 son of Sunny\u2019s Halo, was a millionaire and a top-class runner on the track.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His 3-year-old campaign included wins in the NYRA Mile, Louisiana Derby, and Risen Star.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He also finished on the board in the Blue Grass, American Derby, Round Table, and Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint (won by Dancing Spree).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>At 4, he won the Woodward and the Cornhusker.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoBodyText style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\">While standing at stud in real life, he sired 6 crops of racing age, including 110 foals and 6 stakes winners.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His finest runner was Hesabull (Mervyn LeRoy H. winner), also available as a sim sire.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Another top earner was multiple graded-placed Bomfim.<\/P><P class=MsoBodyText style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\">In the sim, he averages one offspring per year as a damsire (as of this writing, he does not have a 2007 foal as a damsire), with 66% winners.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His 2005 foal is <B><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">GENERAL\u2019S ORDERS<\/SPAN><\/B><SPAN style=\"COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">, by Forty Niner.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This scratch bred is running triple digit speed numbers for <\/SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><SPAN style=\"COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">Havana<\/SPAN><\/I><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><SPAN style=\"COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His propensity for dirt sprints could be more his sire\u2019s influence than Dispersal\u2019s.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Dispersal has very few of the common sirelines other than Halo.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He will likely be an outcross to whatever Mr. Prospector and Northern Dancer line sires you would choose to use with him.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If you\u2019re looking to line-breed to Halo, you could use sons of Machiavellian such as Best of the Bests or Street Cry, sons of Rahy like Noverre or Fantastic Light, or even More Than Ready or Harlan\u2019s <\/SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style=\"COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">Holiday<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><SPAN style=\"COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoBodyText style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\"><SPAN style=\"COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">Dispersal can be had for about 30 to 40 breeding points.\u00a0 He is available as a\u00a0damsire or dam&#8217;s damsire.<\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series returns from long hiatus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}