PULPIT is the latest Chef-de-Race as an Intermediate/Classic influence.
Some comments from a international website interestingly states, ". . . this classification tends to add more stamina to the CD (but not the DI), a basic flaw of the DI by the way, as B points & I points are treated the same, whereas the CD calculations address that issue.
"But without the data to go into the same statistical depth that Dr Roman does, I would think that, with respect to any perceived stamina being passed on by Pulpit, the classification of Pulpit’s sire A.P. Indy as I/C is a point to address, as well as the rather odd Dosage classifications of Unbridled & Pleasant Colony as B/I & I respectively, those stallions being three of the major US stamina influences of recent times, with the latter two figuring in the pedigrees of the dams of Pulpit’s major winners.
The point being that the stamina may not be coming from Pulpit as such, but from his own sire & the sires of the dams of his best winners, in some cases."
I personally agree with the above. I’m not a big fan of Dr. Romans because his designations are often too tardy and his evaluations are probably based more AEI than any substantive predictions on inheritance.
At the very least, PULPIT will effect bloodlines for many decades to come. IMHO, probably longer and more so than the great Man o’War. SEATTLE SLEW can not be ignored as the most productive and established progenitor of TB bloodlines. But it is not an argument that is totally defensible and not a argument I would enjoy debating.
