A top stallion these days covers 3 mares on average every day for 3 months, sometimes even sirinf a crop of 200 plus foals.

His top stallion is worth $1.5 million, and could be disabled by a swift kick from a mare.

Then her next foal, by a top stallion called Storm Cat, fetched $3 million at the Keene land sales.

His progeny enabled him to be top stallion in 1955 and he was placed in the top five on the sires list on five other occasions.

With the purchase of Marian, Winters now owned a top stallion and a top broodmare.

The elder Steinbrenner will occasionally breed to some of the game's top stallions, but has never been known to throw around big money at the yearling or the 2-year-old sales.

He owns eight stud farms worldwide containing over 200 regally bred mares and many top stallions.

Highflyer was also a top stallion, becoming Champion sire thirteen times.

The Shadai breeding operation was hit hard this year by the death of its top stallion, Sunday Silence, the 1989 Kentucky Derby winner.

Nerud also bred and owned Fappiano, sire of the champion and top stallion Unbridled.