[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland band - -the stallion

[billsharp]

Regarding Barbone's article":

"Almost forgot that Street Sense, winner of this year's Kentucky Derby 
is the
grandson of . . . DIXIELAND BAND.

Dixieland Band is the son of Northern Dancer, out of Mississippi Mud 
and now
has a live foal stud fee of $50,000. It will no doubt go up should 
Street
Sense continue to win big. He is currently one of the top producing
stallions in the USA, and stands at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, 
Kentucky
if anyone is interested in his kind of music.

Dixieland Band, was formerly owned by local horse people in my neck of 
the
woods. During that time, we played many a party for them at venues like 
the
Vicmead Hunt Club etc. As a stallion, Dixieland Band is one of the 
leading
sires in the world. He has so far, sired about 115 stakes winners with 
total
earnings of over $75,000,000 and has sired about 700 individual winners 
of
some 2,400 races." - - - - - - -

Response:     Don't we all know several Dixieland Band Musicians that 
would "sire" for a lot less?  (If the filly is ugly, do they have to 
get him drunk first?)
That just shows you how unfair life is, where a horse can get his 
jollies and be paid  $50,000 for his "gig" while struggling musicians 
frequently get $50 for a gig. (and may have to have liability 
insurance).

In my next life I'm putting in my request to come back as a racing 
horse stud.

Bill (the-snow-tire-stud) Sharp