New Stallions of 2020
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Gemini
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Horsebagger
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Northport
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Are you trying to say that there isn't a market for a stallion whose last result was 7th in an Allowance Optional Claimer?!Horsebagger wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:22 amOooohhhhhh.......please tell me where the line is forming.
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Horsebagger
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MySaladDays
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I LIKED Solomini.
He was mis managed early on in his career, and being a bit of a head case, that is never good for that kind of horse.
that, combined with the fact that we don't do so well with *stayers* here in the U.S. some of these true distance types end up running in a lot of races that are not right for them.
He had the potential to be so much more.
I see it all the time. Had Vent Le Seve (spelling) been raised and trained here it would have been awful unless he got a really patient trainer
He was mis managed early on in his career, and being a bit of a head case, that is never good for that kind of horse.
that, combined with the fact that we don't do so well with *stayers* here in the U.S. some of these true distance types end up running in a lot of races that are not right for them.
He had the potential to be so much more.
I see it all the time. Had Vent Le Seve (spelling) been raised and trained here it would have been awful unless he got a really patient trainer
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MySaladDays
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I got to see Sporting Chance quite a bit. even first time I saw him though, I said to my friends while we were watching him at the rail "this one is like a perpetual teenager/adolescent"........ you can always spot those, and then you hope they mature but oftentimes they don't. He always seemed to have his mind on anything other than racing.
If he were a dog he would be a whole lot of fun, playing fetch and catch with......I liked him but not as a race horse. He didn't seem to have a serious bone in his body.
But of course, that is why I like labrador retrievers, and many other dogs, too........so I liked Sporting chance.
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Curtis
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How should he have been managed?MySaladDays wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 5:12 pm I LIKED Solomini.
He was mis managed early on in his career, and being a bit of a head case, that is never good for that kind of horse.
that, combined with the fact that we don't do so well with *stayers* here in the U.S. some of these true distance types end up running in a lot of races that are not right for them.
He had the potential to be so much more.
I see it all the time. Had Vent Le Seve (spelling) been raised and trained here it would have been awful unless he got a really patient trainer
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Curtis
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A prospective stallion like Solomini is tough to sell, in my opinion. You’re right 2k is worth the risk, the problem is that stallions that stand for that are usually in small markets like New Mexico, AZ, Oregon or up here in WA. The vast majority of horses that come out of these markets are sprinters. Smiling Tiger, the best stallion in CA—in my opinion—was a sprinter and that’s what you’re getting from him. I know NY isn’t KY but, I think it will be hard to get mares for 6.5k. I don’t think the breed would suffer if he were to be gelded and put in the TB Makeover Project. Just steer clear of disciplines that require flying lead changes.
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Diver52
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Oh, I'm not saying there aren't much more attractive prospects even at $2000 or that the world needs his genes. (Love the comment about flying lead changes.) But it's the pricing that is ludicrous.
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