Pedigree Query

Graydon who is a groom for Roger Stein, said that when Swaps was foaled he had a deformed coffin bone. Most TB that have that problem have to train in a bar shoe to protect the foot from spreading out and causing much pain. On race days the bar shoe is replaced with regular shoes. Thanks Graydon fo...

Trainer Ray Bell said that Nasrullah was the leading stallion in IRE for 2 years before being imported to the US, Is that true Khaled? I am not sure about 2 years, but I do know that Nasrullah was the leading sire for 1 year (I think it was in 1948). He might have been leading sire again after he l...

To Timber: Ellsworth was hot to trot to purchase Nasrullah, but whe A. B. Bull Hancock got wind of the deal, Bull came in the back door and went out the front door with Nasrullah before Ellsworth had a chance to catch his breath. Trainer Ray Bell grandson of Ray Bell that arranged the importation o...

What if Maids Causeway wins the 1000 guineas and Noble Causeway wins the Derby? He'll stand for a million dollars. Just kidding but I don't doubt the fee will be outrageous. Of course, he just might be the son capable of replacing his sire Storm Cat because no other son has confirmed this capability.

I'm sure that you're right, and that "sales toppers are more often failures than successes," but this seems to me like a fairly trivial result. "more often failures than successes" seems like it should apply to thoroughbreds in general, even ones who go through the sales. Perhaps a more meaningful ...

Hello Jellac, hello all, If I understand you correctly, you are asking if the purchaser of these sale toppers fully takes the brunt of the failed racing or breeding prospect. Am I right? If I understand you correctly, you must not have read my previous response (it was a bit long). I said that one o...

How many high priced fillies have failed on the racetrack and went on to be a diamond in the rough in the breeding shed, or gold mine producers? Good question. I haven't looked done any research on that. Please let me know if you do a search of the top priced fillies as yearlings to see how they fa...

I forgot one more aspect. Part of the price of this yearling is advertisement. By paying a high price, you have the whole racing world looking at your horse. Imagine if the $8,000,000 Storm Cat bought by Fusao Sekiguchi does well. There'll be clamour from the time he wins his first allowance race. H...

Hello all, FOS wrote: Mr. Prospector was the highest priced yearling in 1971. You might agree...he did okay. Yes Mr P was a sales topper. I believe the previous record was a Swaps colt if I am not mistaken. He was a dud. Here is a homework assignment for someone - look at all the sales toppers in ye...

I thought I would share some information I found with you all. I looked up the racing and stud careers of the top yearling auction purchases in history. Only two of the top 21 horses were stakes winners of modest means (Seattle Dancer $13.1 million and earner of $152,413 and Van Nistelrooy $6.4 mill...

I wonder how healthy this colt will live. The problem with cloning is the DNA that is used. An egg is removed from a mare, and the nucleus is removed. A new nucleus from a somatic cell from another horse is placed in the egg. The egg was triggered to start to divide and grow (I don't know how this p...

I hope he stays sound. Of course, what does it matter? At this rate he'll run in one race this year like LSB said. I just hope RHT is in that race b/c RHT will humble him and make his connections wish they had run him more. (Is it obvious that I am a RHT fan? )

Ghostzapper seems to be a horse with a lot of talent that can't hold up for more than a few races (I hope that I'm wrong). I want to see Ghostzapper against Rock Hard Ten. I think RHT can take him.

I just heard that GC's stud fee was increased to $200,000. Wow, for a stallion whose oldest runners are 3 years old. this is excessive. Currently the stud fee situation reminds me of the mid-80's when many horses (most in first few years of stud duty) stood for stud fees , which should have been man...

Why did Arch only run 7 times? Did he break down? Does he have unsoundness issues?