One last poke:
Nyquist cannot get the Preakness distance because Uncle Mo never won at that distance and furthermore it is not the exact distance that he just proved his naysayers wrong. On a breeding note, Uncle Mo (first crop) had a better chance to produce a Derby winner than leading sire Tapit (8 crops of racing age), both had multiple starters this year. Seems the pattern is if you are throwing a precocious offspring the chances diminish with each passing crop. What this has to do with the Preakness I don't know but half the posts on here don't either!
In the past 20 years five sires (now 6 out of 21) saw runners from their first crop win the Derby: Unbridled with Grindstone in 1996, Maria's Mon with Monarchos in 2001, Distorted Humor , with Funny Cide in 2003, Street Cry with Street Sense in 2007, and Birdstone with Mine That Bird in 2009.
In the year after their first-crop Derby winner, the stud fees for those five horses more than doubled, going up, on average, 166%. In the year of their first-crop Derby winner, public auction yearling prices for those five stallions jumped, on average, 83% when compared with their yearling prices the previous year.
It is also the fourth time in the last decade that a sire has had an American classic winner in his first crop. Those sires are Street Cry, Medaglia d' Oro, Curlin, and now Uncle Mo. They produced first crop winners in the Kentucky Derby--Street Sense and Nyquist; Belmont Stakes--Palace Malice; and Kentucky Oaks and Preakness--Rachel Alexandra.
