Indian vs foreign sires

all thoroughbreds in the world are the descendents of the 3 Arabian stallions brought to England in the later half of 18th. Century. Their offsprings gradually spread allover the globe and created thousand of sires and hundreds of sirelines in different countries including India. In the early part of 19th, century the sirelines and the stallions from England/Ireland were sought after, prized and had a virtual hegemony over the world thoroughbred indutry which continued till late 40’s of last century – with small hiccups produced by some French,American breeders and a Itallion called Federico Tessio who bred Nearco – the grandsire of Northern Dancer who ultimately changed the power center of the whole thoroughbred industry in the world..
In India during the 70’s alongwith imported stallions like Valoroso ( sire of legendary Squanderer) we had Grey Gaston , Riyahi, Everyday II etc. we had few Indian stallions like Red Rufus, Prince Khartoum and Prince Pradeep who sired many winners ,like Reprint (winner of 1000Guiness and Indian Oaks) and while foreign stallion bred, Squanderer was winning Indian Triple crown our Indian stallion bred were also winning important races like Reprint. Indian stallions did hold their position against the onslaught of imported stallions in mid 20th. Century in India, but gradually lost their hold against the imports and today while in USA in the list of 2000+ stallions, we hardly find more than 5% imports ; in India we have more than 95% imported stallions .
But ,this is not all ,none of the Indian stallion ,now, gets a quality (class I) mare to produce competitor and are literslly reduced to a laughing stock from the breeding stock !

Till mid 40’s exactly similar situation was prevailing in USA though their ‘local breds’ were regularly beating the progeny of ‘imported breds’. US breeders from 50’s switched over to their local stallions and the results are there for all to see . they have virtual monopoly over the world breeding scenario .

And where are we ? With almost 70 years of racing we can count Indian stallions on the fingers of one hand.

While Prince Pradeep got some of the good broodmares of his time and regularly produced classic winners, what did another recent Triple crown winner – Elusive Pimpernel or current sire Indictment was offered in their short career . Go through the records , the answer is all there , in black and white…