Maclean’s Music: Let’s Take it from the Top

[Wandering Eyes]

Maybe starting my Breeding Digest on Monday mornings is not such a good plan. The dust may by then be settling on the racing weekend, but by the look of it, perhaps I need a little longer to recover from my own, somewhat less wholesome exertions! How else do I account for failing to include the principal guarantor of Distorted Humor's male line, Maclean's Music, alongside my reflections on his burgeoning legacy as a broodmare sire?

Maclean's Music has three young sons at stud in Kentucky, in Jackie's Warrior, Drain the Clock and Complexity. The latter made a brilliant start with his first juveniles last year and, if that is any indicator of what is to come, we will certainly be able to salute Maclean's Music–an inspired roll of the dice by John Sikura, after running off the screen on his sole start–as a sire of sires into the bargain.

Maclean's Music landed running with Classic winner Cloud Computing in his first crop and, with River Thames heading into the GI Toyota Blue Grass Stakes this weekend, is plainly far from done. And of course his best-bred crops are only now coming through.

The other son of Distorted Humor with a young son at stud, as mentioned, is Jimmy Creed. Quite a contrast, plainly, between the indefatigable campaigner Casa Creed and the fleeting meteor that was Maclean's Music. Between all these sons and grandsons at stud, however, the common denominator is the kind of speed that Distorted Humor himself showed on the racetrack. His two-turn sons have proved less successful, in terms of replicating his versatility as an influence, albeit Funny Cide can obviously be excused as being deficient in two crucial attributes.

With Constitution, Arrogate and Practical Joke having made the impact they have, and Life is Good, Arabian Lion and Happy Saver among those meanwhile entering the equation, it may well prove that Distorted Humor's daughters will indeed end up achieving a still greater legacy. But that's no better an excuse than Monday morning bleariness for overlooking a son with as much going on as Maclean's Music. Mea culpa!

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