Aclaim represents a new direction for Aquis Farm in Queensland, being the first shuttle stallion that stud has brought to Australia. The stallion has gotten off to a great start in the UK where he topped the first season list in terms of the number of winners. History will tell us that success in the UK is no guarantee of success under local conditions, and in fact could even be a portend for poor performance. After all success with one broodmare population often means that a stallion is incompatible with another population. We can run a similar argument with any number of factors, and it usually is in different forms. We read how winning a certain race can be a factor in predicting success, but this line of argument certainly has little basis in fact. Certainly, better racehorses regularly win the best races, but any number of factors can impact on a field in a particular season. All of these factors are marketing points and have little to do with anything apart from possible opportunity. If we really wanted to look at the most obvious factor of success in a first season stallion, it comes down simply to numbers. The bigger book a stallion covers, the bigger chance they are of getting good runners on the track. No one has ever said that thoroughbred racing and breeding is fair and the name, The Sport Of Kings, did not come about by accident. But this is a digression and gives us little hint at this stage as to the future of Aclaim who comes here with plenty of things to like.
Aclaim was a quality racehorse winning
