Darley seems to be trying to amass A.P. Indy mares and horses out of A. P. Indy mares. They started three such first-time starters at Saratoga on Saturday: Fortify, who was a clear winner; Joking, who finished resolutely and ran a close 3rd; and Thane, who ran 4th. Then at Del Mar on Saturday, they had another first-time starter out of an A. P. Indy mare, Modern, who checked in 3rd. Three different sires were represented among the four horses: Fortify and Joking, who did the best of the four, are both by Distorted Humor, while Thane is by Medaglia d'Oro, and Modern by Tiznow. Thane is particularly interesting to me, because he suggests the effort extends to yearling buys; the other three are homebreds.
The question is, what is Darley up to? The strategy would be more coherent if all of the A.P. Indy mares were being bred to one stallion, like Distorted Humor, but Modern shows they are not. Maybe Distorted Humor will get the bulk of the A.P. Indy mares, but it's not an exclusive deal.
The other head scratcher is that I didn't know A.P. Indy was a particularly outstanding broodmare sire; I remembered a post I wrote, quoting his percentage of stakes winners from foals, and it was 5.2%. I found a number of sires higher than that. You'd want to revolve your breeding strategy around the best broodmare sire you could, if you were going to focus on it.
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