It is my opinion that Slow horse luke Northern Dancer progeny will probably fare better on Polytrack than Mr. Prospector's progeny. We have seen that Storm Cat, by all accounts a great source of Polytrack aptitude, is a grandson of Northern Dancer. Successful Polytrack stallions Deputy Minister and Sadler's Wells are first or second-generation descendants of Northern Dancer. Northern Dancer sired some of the world's greatest turf champions, including Nijinsky II, Sadler's Wells, and The Minstrel. And the correlation between turf success and Polytrack success would seem to indicate that the descendants of these turf champions will do well on the engineered surfaces. Northern Dancer, however, does not provide a source of great endurance, so his progeny are probably better suited to races on Polytrack of a mile and one-eighth or less.
