Just read on the Bloodhorse Talkin' Horses that SC's 2007 foal by AP Indy died (Mrs. Chandler doesn't doesn't say when) and that Keeper Hill slipped her Bernardini foal for 2008 and will be bred back. I love knowing how nice Keeper Hill is, I was always a fan. Nicanor's got good bone, is quite lengthy, tough and competitive and has gone down to Florida for training.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/talkinhorses/AC120607.asp
This is a fascinating lady right here and it was fun to hear from her.
Nicanor, Sweet Catomine, Keeper Hill updates
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Nicanor, Sweet Catomine, Keeper Hill updates
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She was very succinct in her answers. I imagine she is a person who keeps her success secrets to herself. I did enjoy the one where the person asked how to get a good start in the business, and she said to go get a pitchfork! 
Truer advice was never given...
Truer advice was never given..."When I am on my deathbed, I imagine I will say, 'Thank God I did that'" - Arthur Hancock, on buying back Gato del Sol from Europe after Exceller was killed in a slaughterhouse in Sweden.
majxmom wrote:She was very succinct in her answers. I imagine she is a person who keeps her success secrets to herself. I did enjoy the one where the person asked how to get a good start in the business, and she said to go get a pitchfork!
Yeah I mean I think I was reading between the lines on some of this in terms of what she knows and brings to the table. Some people don't do as well on these chats--I'm sure she's not the most computer saavy and doesn't know the detail people expect.
There've been better chats true but she's not one I'd ask for some new innovative way to get into the business--start at the bottom and work hard is probably all she knows to tell you. And it's still a big way people break in. Anything more complicated might not strike her as something she can go into on the internet.
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Heidilady wrote:Yeah I mean I think I was reading between the lines on some of this in terms of what she knows and brings to the table. Some people don't do as well on these chats--I'm sure she's not the most computer saavy and doesn't know the detail people expect.
Not certain what you meant by computer saavy, but I'm sure she was dictating her answers, while someone else typed them. That is usually how these chats with industry icons are done.
To keep things less complicated, in these online chats, the typist is often directed to keep things short and sweet.
In her case, I think her greatest secret is good instincts, plenty of knowledge of bloodlines as well as the odds and a good operation to breed, care for and develop the best foal (and the mare and stallion).
I was told, by someone who had a long chat with Mrs. Chandler, that she goes back several (4th, 5th, 6th, etc.) generations in the female line to determine how best to concentrate and bring forward all that did work in prior generations. I take great stock in the person's word, who relayed that info, as they were/are very much in awe of Mrs. Chandler.