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TRACK RECORD

Raced in USA at 3 and 4 years (1973-74). Won 7 races (6 over 1200 meters, 1 over 1400 meters) and $112 171. Won Whirlaway Hcp (1200m) by 4 lengths in NTR of 1 min 8.6 secs, Gravesend Hcp (1200m) by 5 lengths in 1 min. 9.4 secs, Allowance race (1200m. Gulfstream Park) by 9½ lengths in NTR of 1 min. 7.8 secs; 2nd Carter Hcp (Gr. II 1400m) Forego, 2nd Firecracker Hcp (Gr. III), 3rd Paumonok Hcp (Gr. III).

Rated top of the 1974 Daily Racing Form Free Handicap for Sprinters at 126 lb, ahead of Full Pocket (122 lb) and 1973 Champion Sprinter Sheckey Greene (122 lb).

STUD RECORD

Retired to stud in Florida at 5. Stood at Aisco Farm for $7,500. Moved to Claiborne Farm in 1980 where he stood until his death in 1999. An outstanding sire in every way, he topped the leading sires in North America twice, in 1987 and 1988. He also topped the leading sires of two year olds several times and has been the leading broodmare sire in North America for the last three years. Sire of 169 Stakes winners and is at the moment the all time leading sire of stakes winners.

Mr. Prospector (1970-1999) was a thoroughbred racehorse who won half of his 14 career starts, but whose descendants have come to dominate the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

An also-ran in the year the great Secretariat won the Triple Crown, Mr. Prospector's sire was Raise A Native, a son of Native Dancer and out of the Nashua mare, Gold Digger. A $200,000 yearling in 1971 (a pricy sum for the early 1970's), "Mr. P", as he came to be known, was trained by Jimmy Croll, a Hall of Fame member who went on to train the great Holy Bull.

Mr. Prospector managed to set track records for six furlongs (1,207 m) at Gulfstream Park and Garden State, but his racing record had little inkling of his success as a breeding sire.

One of Mr. P's most remarkable feats was siring one winner of each of the Triple Crown races, a feat his grandson, Unbridled, has also accomplished. His Triple Crown race winners were the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, a promising young sire; 1985 Preakness Stakes winner Tank's Prospect; and 1982 Belmont Stakes winner and Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, Conquistador Cielo.