POINT GIVEN was a versatile Champion who made Horse of the Year, yet I believe he has not been exploited fully. He has sired major stakes winners out of mares from the lines of Blushing Groom, Seattle Slew, Northern Dancer, In Reality, Broad Brush, Roberto, Star de Naskra, and Ribot, yet his leading earner is by a son of Nijinsky II, and I always thought he needed mares with Nijinsky II (seeing as he is by Thunder Gulch, whose dam is by Storm Bird). I strongly recommend mares with Nijinsky II so that POINT GIVEN may still have time to sire a Champion son.

POINT GIVEN suits medium-framed mares because he can add bone and substance to his progeny, yet he does tend to throw to the mare's physical attributes. Already we know he succeeds with the strains of Seattle Slew, the Nasrullah/Princequillo nick, Turn-to, Broad Brush and Blushing Groom. Not yet tested properly are the strains of Sir Ivor and Nijinsky II. Opportunity awaits those who breed to race.

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