Hussonet (USA) Best Value Stallion for 2007

HUSSONET (USA) by Mr Prospector (USA) ex Sacahuista (USA)
Standing at Arrowfield Stud
2007 Fee $38,500

Superbly bred HUSSONET (USA) is without doubt the astute investors and discerning breeders Value Stallion for 2007. After standing a number of seasons as leading sire in Chile, HUSSONET (USA) is set to dominate the Australasian Racing and Breeding stage after laying a solid foundation with his first crop of 2 year old runners in Australia.

Now the sire of 54 Stakes Winners including a remarkable 21 Group One winners in USA, UAE, Chile, Peru and Argentina, it is without a doubt that he will surely prove a huge success in Australasia. HUSSONET (USA) is the most dominant sire son of Mr Prospector (USA) and remarkably has achieved his great success with relatively small numbers on the ground from 7 racing crops.

The success enjoyed by HUSSONET (USA) to date is due soley to his superior gene pool. Only a moderately performed racehorse, HUSSONET (USA) is a similar style stallion to the great SIR TRISTRAM (IRE), who both while enjoying only limited success on the racetrack, possess a gene pool that requires only slight improvement through the broodmare to produce top quality racing progeny.

Many USA bred stallions shuttle to Australia but in many cases are incompatible with the Australasian broodmare due to their gene pool containing a number of distinctive American bloodlines which are completely incompatable genetically with the gene pools carried by the Australasian broodmare. Many American thoroughbreds carry their own "micro heritage" which is unique from the English/European heritage to what Australasian thoroughbred breeding is based on.

HUSSONET (USA) carries a nice gene pool that will work very nicely with Australasian broodmares. If we delve 15 generations into the pedigree of HUSSONET (USA) we find that the main feature of his genetic makeup is 881 lines of my favourite matriarch Pocahontas, who is believed to carry the gene for large hearts. To be sure, 881 lines of Pocahontas within 15 generations is not enough to make HUSSONET (USA) himself a topline racehorse, especially in light of the fact that there are no other major gene pools to back up Pocahontas, but ... HUSSONET (USA) has a distinct advantage in that many of his instances of Pocahontas are closer up in his pedigree than most other present day stallions at around 11 - 14 generations and this provides him with a wonderful gene pool to pass on to Australasian mares who are all generally very well endowed with Pocahontas in their genetic makeups.

Progeny of HUSSONET (USA) have enjoyed extraordinary success in Chile and other counties while always racing in the best company. It is clear that the upgrading of HUSSONET's (USA) gene pool of Pocahontas has worked with supreme effect when we examine the pedigrees [to 15 generations] of his best Group One winners to date: WILD SPIRIT (CHI) [Multiple Group One Winner CHI & USA - 1159 x Pocahontas], PRINTEMPS (CHI) [Multiple Group 1 Winner - 1094 x Pocahontas], TROTAMONDO (CHI) [Multiple Group One winner and Won the 2004 Triple Coronado del Hipodromo Chile(equivalent of USA Triple Crown for 3yo) - 1088 x Pocahontas], DESERT FIGHT (CHI) [Multiple Group One winner - 1058 x Pocahontas] and HOST (CHI) [Champion in Chile at 2 & 3 - 1075 x Pocahontas].

To illustrate the effect of upgrading the gene pool of Pocahontas, I have analysed the gene pool of one of HUSSONET's (USA) lesser performed runners SPONTANEOUS (CHI), who was chosen at random. While SPONTANEOUS was a Group One winner in Chile, it was a comparitively minor Group One race, and she has had only one other minor victory. Her pedigree contains around 200 less instances of Pocahontas with a count of only 890 which is not only a minor upgrade, but also involves an outward generational shift and does not offer the potency and purity of the greater saturation found in the superior runners of HUSSONET (USA).

To date in Australia, HUSSONET (USA) has enjoyed an encouraging start to his stud career and at the time of writing is sitting 3rd on the Leading First Crop Sires of Season 2006-2007 Table, battling manfully against the greater number of runners by Choisir and Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE), both of who offer an inferior runner/winner ratio to that of HUSSONET (USA).

HUSSONET's (USA) leading runner in Australia at present is the promising HUSSON LIGHTNING [1057 x Pocahontas], winner of the Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate and $412,250. HUSSONET (USA) is also represented by exciting runners Emjay Hussey, Canitellya, Brazen Hussey, Atomic Huss and Del Lirio. Emjay Hussey has a marvellous gene pool and I fully expect him to emerge as a likely 3 year old star.

In Australasia there are many great sources of Pocahontas blood. If you own a broodmare that contains crosses of the following sire lines, you should seriously consider sending her to HUSSONET (USA): Danehill, Northern Dancer, Nijinsky, Ribot, Star Kingdom, Bletchingly, Raise A Native, Sir Tristram, Desert Sun, Alycidon, Nasrullah, Fair Trial, Green Desert, Sir Ivor and Hail To Reason. In time, mares by Redoute's Choice, Street Cry (IRE) and Show A Heart will provide wonderful nicks for HUSSONET (USA).

While HUSSONET's (USA) first 2 year old crop have shown good speed and ability, there is nothing surer than that they will be much better 3 year olds and come into their own. Couple this with top quality books of mares in foal to HUSSONET (USA) to follow, including the Champion Mare SUNLINE [whose own ability is due to a huge gene pool of Pocahontas], sending any mare with a strong gene pool of Pocahontas to HUSSONET (USA) is without doubt an astute choice and investment.