Only 1 of the 22, Unbridled's Song, earned as much as $1 million in racing purses, and he also went on to become a successful sire, commanding stud fees as high as $125,000.
After his racing days, Alydar commanded top stud fees.
Today, Kitten's Joy commands a stud fee of a hundred thousand dollars.
Storm Cat, commanding a stud fee of $500,000 a session, brought his owners millions of dollars from eager breeders.
But the gathering of them together across a world of genres, geographies and generations and the way the stories spread themselves out on the page, like late-night conversations in a Chicago bar, seems peculiarly in the command of Studs Terkel.
Frankel, an unbeaten 14-time winner on the track, commands a stud fee of £125,000 a time.
Having sired many a stakes winner, this stallion commands a stud fee of $500,000, a fee he dutifully tries to earn 115 times a year.
He was retired at the age of four for a breeding career, which is due to start on Valentine's Day, 14 February - and commands a stud fee of £125,000 a time.
While Frankel commands a stud fee of £125,000 a time, Galileo is far more expensive - although rather like a magnificent mansion at an estate agents, the actual price is private.
In 1827 he was at Bildeston in Suffolk and was commanding a stud fee of twelve guineas.
