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In horse racing what does 24 starts winner mean?

I have a 11 yr old TB That we recently found out he is a ex-racehorse. We looked up the tattoo on his lip and when to the site and all and it says he was a 24 starts winner. I don't know what that means. I don't know anything about horse racing expect I know he won one race that we could look around and find and he has some great blood lines ( he is 4th generation of Secretariat) and there are many more famous horses in there. Well I don't know what that's means and I couldn't find anything to help, so if you know please help me! :) Here is the bloodline chart so you can see all the info: http://www.equineline.com/Free-5X-Pedigree.cfm?page_state=ORDER_AND_CONFIRM&reference_number=4439857&registry=T&horse_name=Flying%20High%20Again&dam_name=Lil%20Merry%20Sunshine&foaling_year=1998&nicking_stats_indicator=Y

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1. he raced 24 times and did win at least 1 race, they want you to pay for more information...
2. Even with the bare information you have, you can draw some conclusions about your horse's racing career. Since he is listed just as "winner," he only won one race, which more than likely was a maiden race. He is not stakes-placed or his performance line would say "stakes-placed winner." You can buy his lifetime past performance information from the Daily Racing Form for $5. http://www.drf.com/HCPOnlineHorsePickProduct.do?action=horseproducts Here's what I can tell you about his pedigree: The dam, Lil Merry Sunshine, had two wins as a three-year-old and earned $62K, very good for a horse with jusst two wins. He has a full sister who sold as Hip No. 2273 in the Keeneland 2000 September Yearling Sale. Named Take the Cake, she won the Forward Gal Stakes (Gr 3) and finished second in the Ashland Stakes (Gr 2). Take the Cake produced a Smarty Jones colt in 2007, who sold for $400,000 as a yearling. His name is Chef. Your horse's sire, Fly So Free, won the Breeder's cup Juvenile Stakes (Gr 1), the top two-year-old race for Thoroughbreds, in 1990. He was an early favorite for the Kentucky Derby. Fly So Free's best offspring, hands down, was Captain Steve, who earned over $6 million, including the Dubai World Cup (Gr I) in 2001. Fly So Free died of congestive heart failure in 2003 after covering just a couple of mares that year. Your horse comes from a great family, lots of stakes winners up close in the dam's pedigree. And yes, he does have Secretariat in the 4th remove of his pedigree; he also has Damascus, a Horse of the Year and world-class racehorse, in his third remove; he has Filly Triple Crown winner Chris Evert in his fourth remove; it's a very good family. Your horse's full sister, Take the Cake, has a filly selling as Hip No. 2955 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which is Book 5 of the sale. The filly is by Seattle Slew's champion two-year-old son Vindication. This filly should go through the sales ring on September 23. This is the page on Keeneland's website to get you to live streaming video of the sale: http://ww2.keeneland.com/sales/frames/livecoverage.aspx If you want to see Take the Cake's yearling filly sell, then go to that page on September 23 and click on the link for video or video with catalogue page, whichever your browser supports (mine only does video).