National 2yo Sale

Muhtiman wrote: ....went to sales to check out a few on my rather short list.....the venue was rather quiet again but still had the regular fewer die hard trainers pulling horses from boxes.....of particular interest for me was a mating that is way out of my..... and also most of even the bigger money players in our diminishing market....an Irish imported son of Rock Of Gibraltar smart looking chestnut....that stands well in his box....but seems to have the looks of a much younger horse and is pretty playful....did not want to pull him from the box as seems to then want switch into a highly inquisitive mode and not a walker but would rather try to run....besides don't want to get his and my hopes up....and he may still need plenty more time to grow up.....his dam has been sent to imo an array of mismatched sires that have produced winners but nothing with any fire works.....in fact I saw his youngest sibling run on the weekend....a rather poor showing....what is of particular interest is this un-named colt .... now has the same genetic cross of the dam of Rubick a 1st season sire in Ozz that is from the same family as Redoudes Choice, Manhattan Rain and a host of other decent track performers....later I had a chat with David Raphael who initially purchased Rubick and retained shares in this now stallion....He told me that although Rock Of Gibraltar was dark bay....he has typically sired some flashy chestnuts...as in the case of the dam of Rubick....named Sliding Cube a 3parts sibling to Redoubts Choice.... :huh:

Muhtiman wrote: ....TS as you know buying and getting involved with bloodstock is a proverbial minefield.... :blink: however for the uninitiated is is far more scary....you have been fortunate in that you eventually found a more transparent horseman aided by an exceptional horsewoman that imo really know what they are doing .....and thus have a higher success rate than others....I do not as I have done here openly plug for breeders....because I believe that the art of getting a better deal....is to avoid the breeder and agents that hype them the big sales spiel.....now we know that there is something at every sale that somehow is going to be a potential star....so it not very clever to give any sale a big miss....the logic of having a 2yr old sale later in the year is to allow those supposed late bloomers to furnish and grow as they may have been under developed and did not meet certain criteria to make it to the yearling events....statistics can also mean the square root of f@ckall(said I would use it) in trying to pinpoint a degree of success because there will always be very few horses no matter how they are conformed and bred that become champions and the rest mediocre to un racable ....what sales marketing people are trying to say to the more cash strapped or marginalized potential buyer is buying horses later in the year is a small saving in keep or farm stay.....getting back to this lot I have hyped....I have no financial interest in doing so.... and I dont want to see this vendor stiffed either....I am experimenting to see if I can get some interest and get the sellers value for this rather forward fella....and the reason he is....he was supposed to have gone to the CTS in January and the AHS movement restrictions prevented this....in fact most of this draft were to be on that sale too.... The Querari's are a hot item due to some real crackers very early in his crops so far....this boy may not have been in my sights ...but seeing him tells me a different story.....

Muhtiman wrote: .....so at this next sale one can buy a horse or few.....and race for decent stakes by 2022....the keep in the meantime will only be R250K+ per horse ......my Finance Minister may not grasp this concept and soon will lose interest ......:dry: