Fascinating - 427 $1m babies and only 9 earn $1m

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The Green Monkey Project was a project born out of a question raised when the high-priced Juvenile “Iron Fist” made his debut at Delmar. Several pundits mentioned they were picking Iron Fist because his purchase price was one point five million dollars.



A comment like this is put in print or in social media and pretty soon it is accepted as fact. When I heard this – I thought to myself – the opposite, over the years it seems like expensive yearlings are busts on the track or never make it to the races.

I then thought it would be sweet to have a list of all the Million Dollar “Babies” and be able to look up how much each earned on the track. This sounded like a simple request and in any other sport this would be accomplished in about 3 minutes. Not in Horse Racing with no central organized database that you can pull data and query results.

Thus the Genesis for my research began and a quest to answer simple question – are high-priced yearlings good bets when they debut?

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