2013 Fee:
$40,000 Stands and Nurses
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- 14% Stakes winners/Starters LIFETIME - #1 in Kentucky
- Sire of a $475,000 2yo colt at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale
- In 2013: 9 Stakes winners & 17 Stakes horses, including G2 winner Hear the Ghost & MGSW winner Za Approval
- 21% Stakes horses/Starters LIFETIME
- 7% GSW/Starters LIFETIME
- The #2 North American Sire by 2012 Graded Stakes winners, behind only Giant's Causeway
- Higher Oppenheim 'A Runner Index' (2.81) than Tapit, Unbridled's Song, Distorted Humor, Tiznow, Kitten's Joy, Street Cry, etc.
- In 2012: 16 Stakes winners, 10 Graded winners & 26 Stakes horses
- 2012 Hall of Fame inductee
- Kentucky's #2 LIFETIME sire by Median Earnings/Starter ($42,696)
- LIFETIME weanling average: $104,000
- Sire of 3 Grade 1 winners, including MG1SW Contested
- Progeny of Ghostzapper have sold for $925,000, $775,000, $735,000, $625,000, $600,000, $500,000, etc.
- Sire of Grade 1 winners on dirt, turf and all-weather
- “Ghostzapper was a total freak. He was an unbelievable horse. I haven’t
seen a horse in a long time that was as good as he was.”- Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel
- Len Friedman of the Ragozin Sheets called Ghostzapper “the most consistently fast horse of all time.”
- Out of the 2005 Broodmare of the Year
- Horse of the Year and Champion Older Male
- Fastest Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner in history
- Highest Beyer ever recorded around two turns - 128
- Only runner in history to win Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) and Met Mile (G1)
- All-time leading earner by Awesome Again: 9 wins in 11 starts, $3,446,120
- Grade 1 wins, at 6 1/2 furlongs, 8 furlongs, 1 1/8 miles, 1 1/4 miles
- "Few horses have devastated their opponents in so many ways, at so many distances, and in such fast times."--Steve Haskin
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