Horse Racing Forum - USA Thoroughbred Races

Let's liven our little group up with a contest! It's fantasy football season, so let's all draft a team. Grand prize is bragging rights! We all pick a roster of horses and whomever has the best sales results wins!

Rules:

Roster is made up of the following:
Book 1: 6 mares, 4 weanies (hips 1-446)
Book 2-6: any 5 horses out of each
Book 2 hips 447-1266
Book 3 hips 1267-2086
Book 4 hips 2087-2905
Book 5 hips 2906-3303
Book 6 hips 3304-4026
Total horses: 35 (edited from 30, apologies - I didn't math very well there)

If you pick an OUT horse, no refunds. If your horse RNAs, it does not count.

Tiebreaker: total sale $ amount

Ok, go!!!

First book:
Broodies- Hips 14, 156, 160, 200, 267, 274.
Weanies- Hips 9, 21, 321, 402.

Book 2:
Hips 500, 561, 570, 627, 857.

Book 3 :
Hips 1269, 1307, 1334, 1478, 1657.

Book 4:
Hips 2145, 2160, 2276, 2495, 2660.

Book 5:
Hips 2945, 2977, 3016, 3019, 3266.

Book 6:
Hips 3370, 3395, 3425, 3559, 3694.

My final numbers. It's hard doing this not seeing the horses, but I had fun going through all of the books. I do hope Jeranimo gets picked up for stallion duty, he really is a special guy.

Book 1 mares
1. Hip 66: Egg Drop 1,900,000
2. Hip 208A: Last Full Measure 1,500,000
3. Hip 71: EZ Indy RNA 110,000
4. Hip 312: Hooh Why RNA 750,000
5. Hip 353: Modeling 2,850,000
6. Hip 411: Sluice 285,000

Book 1 weanies
1. Hip 201c Street Cry x Spice Island OUT
2. Hip 232 f MDO x Violent Beauty 850,000
3. Hip 332 c Tapit x Lovely Regina 520,000
4. Hip 355 f Blame x More Hennessy 275,000

Book 2
1. 585 Dyning Out 170,000
2. 632 c Creative Cause x History 50,000
3. 635 Homeschooling 105,000
4. 651 I'm Moms Favorite 450,000
5. 820 Silsita 150,000

Book 3
1. 1269 Tapit Dancer 110,00
2. 1272 Tizfiz 125,000
3. 1284 Uqood 80,000
4. 1317 APril Sunshine 25,000
5. 1326 f Super Saver x Awesome Catch 90,000

Book 4
1. 2125 Wallingford 55,000
2. 2130 c Tale of Ekati x Wicked Angel 40,000
3. 2158 f Archarcharch x Ascot Starre 25,000
4. 2356 f Frost Giant x Magical Solution 45,000
5. 2379 My Lunar Love 52,000

Book 5
1. 2907 Tapitoes
2. 2911 Tell Me Honey
3. 2920 c Astrology x True Temper
4. 2974 c Dialed In x Believe in Wonder
5. 3066 Fuhrleen

Book 6
1. 3333 Wild Truffles
2. 3304 Tap Magic
3. 3416 Deighan
4. 3424 Dixiedoodledandy
5. 3648 Tiz High PSI

What a great idea! Going to go over everything with a fine tooth comb tonight- and will post.

And to add some spice to it:

**Take one drink every time you read an online comment that mentions "greedy" in reference to the owners of the fillies in this sale.

**Take two drinks every time someone mentions "Japan" or "Ferdinand" in reference to the buyers at this sale.




I am really going to have to cut myself off when it comes to reading online article comments

BlindLucky wrote:And to add some spice to it:

**Take one drink every time you read an online comment that mentions "greedy" in reference to the owners of the fillies in this sale.

**Take two drinks every time someone mentions "Japan" or "Ferdinand" in reference to the buyers at this sale.

Alcohol poisoning in 5 minutes.

I noticed quite a few mares with Southern Hemisphere foaling dates., e.g., hips 1646 and 1380. I've never seen this before, or at least never in this quantity. The mares aren't in foal to shuttle stallions.

Is this a new marketing tactic, or a North American dispersal of an Aust./SA owner?

middleground wrote:I noticed quite a few mares with Southern Hemisphere foaling dates., e.g., hips 1646 and 1380. I've never seen this before, or at least never in this quantity. The mares aren't in foal to shuttle stallions.

Is this a new marketing tactic, or a North American dispersal of an Aust./SA owner?

They are both owned by the same person. Equineline has the first mare, hip 1646, foaling in Iowa this year.

Definitely going to try to get in this contest, just keep forgetting to wade through the catalog and make a list.

I would like to participate too. Haven't put my list together yet, but will do it in time for the sale. This will be fun!

Don't feel bad, still have not gone thru the list- I have an idea, though.

I want to partake.. when is the deadline to have your selections?

Just bumping this up for anyone who wants to play along. It's fun going through all the books and seeing some names you had possibly forgotten or some relatives of favorite horses.

It looks like nobody else played this. I had two very nice horses "sell" for me - Naples Bay at $3.6 million and the $3million Tapit-Serena's Cat filly.
Keeneland is hot-hot-hot right now. I can't remember the last time it's top seller was higher than Fasig Tipton's.

I wanted to play but I was stunted by the size of the catalog. I got to hip 300 and ran out if time. I think the last time that Keeneland top price beat FT was probably the year Royal delta sold unless havre de grace also sold in 2011. I can't remember....

My least favorite thing... the RNA (0). Poor Hip 2192, Tizway x Burning Faith (Cat Thief). I'm sure you're a sweet boy.

bare it all wrote:My least favorite thing... the RNA (0). Poor Hip 2192, Tizway x Burning Faith (Cat Thief). I'm sure you're a sweet boy.

That breaks my heart when I see that, not one bid.