\nThe sire with the most grade one winners this year is the young sire\nViolence. Prior to this year he had never sired a grade one winner\nin the United States but now he has three. Interestingly those three\nare from three different crops \u2013 Volatile, a four year old, No\nParole a three year old and Dr. Schivel, a two year old. He really\ncame out of the gate strong as a leading freshman sire, second and\nthird crop sire. His fourth crop to race are two year olds of this\nyear. What\u2019s scary is that the foals conceived after his first\ncrop are only yearlings this year. As has been mentioned many times\nbefore a sire often gets good mares in their first crop and then the\nquality of mares tails off in later crops. There is also a typical\ndrop off in the number of mares bred \u2013 for Violence his first two\ncrops produced over 110 foals while his third crop produced only 78\nfoals. This obviously means that the best is yet to come for\nViolence. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nViolence is a son of Medaglia D\u2019oro who won the Grade One Cashcall\nFuturity as a two year old. He was unfortunately injured early in\nhis three year old season and was retired. He comes from the family\nof Hall of Fame mare Sky Beauty. Violence is easily the best of her\ndescendants but her dam, Maplejinsky ancestress of sire Point of\nEntry and a half sister to Dayjur. Another sire from this female\nline is Tale of Ekati so there is a very good family backing up a top\nsire in Medaglia D\u2019oro. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAs a top two year old it is no surprise that Violence has done well\nwith his two year olds. What may be a bit surprising is that his\nbest foals, and indeed the majority of his major winners prefer\nsprints. All three of his 2020 grade one winners have done so at six\nor seven furlongs. His two year old Dr. Schivel will almost\ncertainly try to stretch out to make it to the Breeders\u2019 Cup at a\nmile and a sixteenth later this year and could prove up to the\ndistance. Both Volatile and No Parole are likely headed to the\nBreeders\u2019 Cup Sprint, although No Parole does have a listed stakes\nvictory at a mile and could possibly try the Breeders\u2019 Cup Mile to\navoid the talented older sprinters that have dominated the year. \nOverall though Violence\u2019s 2020 runners have an average winning\ndistance of just 6.68f. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHe\u2019s currently ranked 26th<\/sup> on the overall leading sires\nlist and first on the fourth crop sires list. He has 94 winners and\nseven stakes winners. His 2020 stud fee was $25,000 but that will\nalmost certainly increase for 2021, especially if one or more of his\noffspring were to win at the Breeders\u2019 Cup. His first three season\nsaw him stand for $15,000, what seems like a bargain looking back\nnow. After his freshman year his fee went up to $40,000, again\nsuggesting that he got higher quality mares, although the fee was\ndecreased for 2020. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nSo why do I compare Violence to Into Mischief? Both were brilliant\ntwo year olds and interestingly they both scored their biggest\nvictories in the Cashcall Futurity. Both entered stud with modest\nexpectations but have really moved up in the world. Both seem to\nproduce sprinters, with Into Mischief\u2019s runner\u2019s average winning\ndistance is 6.69f (although Into Mischief\u2019s best runner is\nobviously Kentucky Derby winner Authentic). Also both come from\nstrong female families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nInto Mischief\u2019s foals came out of the gate running with grade one\nwinner Goldencents (another strong young sire) and grade two winner\nVyjack from his first crop. His first four crops saw him get less\nthan 50 mares each year, but after his first two year olds hit the\ntrack he received over 100 mares in his next foal crop. The numbers\nhave kept going up for Into Mischief, both in terms of number of\nmares bred and his stud fee which for 2020 is $175,000. He is\ncurrently the leading sire of 2020 and his success is quite amazing\nconsidering his humble beginnings. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nWill Violence reach the heights that Into Mischief has achieved? \nThat remains to be seen. But with his meteoric rise and quite amazin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sire with the most grade one winners this year is the young sire Violence. Prior to this year he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53347","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\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53348,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53347\/revisions\/53348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}