Distorted Humor

Forty Niner - Danzig's Beauty, by Danzig, 1993 CH
Fee: $100,000 S&N   |   Entered Stud: 1999  Submit Mare
Distorted Humor - A Great Sire
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Distorted Humor - Winstar Farm

A Great Sire

Champion Sire with his first crop to race and Champion Sire of 2011, Distorted Humor continues to bolster his reputation as a Great Sire.

With just 10 crops racing, he has sired 114 stakes winners and earners of $95,000,000 across the globe, led by some of Thoroughbred racing’s marquee events, Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), Kentucky Derby (G1), Preakness (G1), Belmont (G1), Prix Jean Prat (G1). He is the only active stallion to sire winners of all three U.S. Triple Crown races. In 2012, he become one of the rare stallions in breed history to sire a Kentucky Derby winner (Funny Cide), and the sire of a Kentucky Derby winner (Flower Alley). A roster of his accomplishments includes:

  • Leading Sire by Average at 2012 Keeneland Select - $605,704
  • Leading Sire by Comparable Index (Quality of Mares Bred) for five consecutive years
  • America's Leading Sire of SWs (19) and Stakes Horses (45) in 2011
  • 23 SWs in 2006 - 21 SW in 2007
  • $10,000,000 in progeny earnings three times in the past five years
  • 47 Group/Graded stakes winners
  • 14 G1 winners in five countries - 10 millionaires
  • 14 stakes horses in 2013 - SWs in the U.S. and Europe

Distorted Humor has the highest three-year yearling average of any stallion in North America - $303,789 - and in 2012, he accounted for both the Highest-Priced yearling ($1.65M) and the highest average at Keeneland September Select. From 2008 to 2012, he bred the best book of mares in the nation, with the highest Comparable Index by far of any stallion during that span. 

His runners comprise a Who’s Who of big-name horses of the past decade, DROSSELMEYER-G1, FUNNY CIDE-G1, COMMENTATOR-G1, ANY GIVEN SATURDAY-G1, FLOWER ALLEY-G1, HYSTERICALADY-G1, et al. Distorted Humor is one of the nation's top two stallions by APEX Index (top 8% earners), which indicates the very top sires of consistent, moneymaking horses.

Age Starts 1st (SW) 2nd (sp) 3rd (sp) Earning
3 10 4   (1) 2   (2) 1   (1) $191,211
4 5 1   (1) 3   (1) 1   (1) $212,660
5 8 3   (3) 0   1   (1) $366,093
23 8   (5) 5   (3) 3   (3) $769,964

(RI: 18.91)
(5, 7f, Career best Rag# 2)

At 3:

  • 1st Screen King S. ($54,700, Sar, 6f, 1:09.13, by 5 1/2 lengths, dftd. Gold Fever, Stu's Choice)
  • 2nd Fayette S.-G2 ($193,725, Kee)
  • Jerome H.-G2 ($150,000, Bel)
  • 3rd King's Bishop S.-G2 ($108,200, Sar)

At 4:

  • 1st Salvator Mile H.-G3 ($97,000, Mth, 8f, 1:36.03, by 5 1/2 lengths, dftd. Wild Deputy, Smooth the Loot)
  • 2nd Kentucky Cup Classic H.-G3 ($380,000, TP)
  • 3rd Philip H. Iselin H.-G2 ($342,500, Mth)

At 5:

  • 1st Commonwealth Breeders' Cup S.-G2 (watch video) (view chart) (Rag# 2) ($211,000, Kee, 7f, 1:20.50, dftd. El Amante, Partner's Hero)
  • Churchill Downs H.-G2 ($166,950, CD, 7f, 1:21.18 NTR, by 3 1/4 lengths, dftd. Gold Land, El Amante)
  • Ack Ack H.-G3 (watch video) (view chart) ($110,100, CD, 7.5f, 1:29.61, dftd. Crafty Friend, Chindi)
  • 3rd Cigar Mile H.-G1 ($300,000, Aqu)

Printable Pedigree

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Generational Pedigree

FORTY NINER (USA)
ch. 1985
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA)
b. 1970 [BC]
RAISE A NATIVE (USA)
ch. 1961 [B]
NATIVE DANCER (USA) gr. 1950 [IC]
RAISE YOU (USA) ch. 1946 *
GOLD DIGGER (USA)
b. 1962
NASHUA (USA) b. 1952 [IC]
SEQUENCE (USA) b. 1946
FILE (USA)
ch. 1976
TOM ROLFE (USA)
b. 1962 [CP]
RIBOT (ITY) b. 1952 [CP]
POCAHONTAS (USA) br. 1955 *
CONTINUE (USA)*
dkb/br. 1958
DOUBLE JAY (USA) blk/br. 1944 [B]
COURTESY (USA) b. 1952 *
DANZIGS BEAUTY (USA)
b. 1987
DANZIG (USA)
dkb/br. 1977 [IC]
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)
b. 1961 [BC]
NEARCTIC (CAN) br. 1954
NATALMA (USA) b. 1957 *
PAS DE NOM (USA)
dkb/br. 1968
ADMIRALS VOYAGE (USA) dkb/br. 1959
PETITIONER (GB) b. 1952
SWEETEST CHANT (USA)
b. 1978
MR. LEADER (USA)
b. 1966
HAIL TO REASON (USA) br. 1958 [C]
JOLIE DEJA (USA) b. 1954
GAY SONNET (USA)
dkb/br. 1969
SAILOR (USA) ch. 1952
GAY RIG (USA) br. 1956

courtesy of Pedigree Query

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