There must be a lot of statistics which point to a very high probability of those winners' offsprings winning races of their own, or at least being in the top few horses who consistently run well enough to provide the owner with a recovery of the investment, and perhaps much more.. Oddly no one is offering Stephen Hawking, or any other geniuses or Nobel prize winners or various other highly accomplished humans anywhere near the money for their " DNA donation " in hope that the offspring may be the person who finds a cure for cancer or some other world and life changing accomplishment . I suppose horse DNA is a lot more effective at transferring genetic traits of one parent than human DNA is..
So much for my plan to create the sexiest human being of all time with Scarlett Johansson. She would not even have to pay me anyway near $ 200 K.