Patchen Prince just threw in a clunker

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:09 pm

at Keeneland. Bummer.

chicago78 · Postby **chicago78** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:46 pm

I saw him for the first time in the paddock today and he's a beautiful horse. But he was taking a huge step up in class, and didn't really fit with the ones running today. Plus speed was favoring all day, and he was kind of on the outside and running hard to keep up down the backside.

Langfuhr · Postby **Langfuhr** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:58 pm

I dont wanna stir up the colored TB people, but theres a reason why you dont see too many of these horses succeeding on the track..

Georgerz · Postby **Georgerz** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:51 pm

Not for lack of class. For lack of proper opportunities.

Sysonby · Postby **Sysonby** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:34 pm

Georgerz wrote:Not for lack of class. For lack of proper opportunities.

That's sort of chicken and egg. The Patchen horses have been bred to be racehorses first and certainly have had opportunity. But some of the other bloodlines known for unusual colors never have produced significant racehorses and the foals bred from those lines probably wouldn't have been put in race training no matter what color they were.

In the end, its like drilling for oil. People play percentages and probabilities.

Nessa · Postby **Nessa** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:17 pm

Could it not be that he just didn't like the track at Keeneland? There are alot of horses who don't do well there, after running well elsewhere. So let's just hold the critiques of his pedigree, until it's been proven that he isn't working out as a racehorse.

Hold Your Peace · Postby **Hold Your Peace** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:34 pm

Nessa wrote:Could it not be that he just didn't like the track at Keeneland? There are alot of horses who don't do well there, after running well elsewhere. So let's just hold the critiques of his pedigree, until it's been proven that he isn't working out as a racehorse.

Much more likely that he didn't like the COMPETITION at Keeneland versus Turfway rather than him not liking the synthetic track at Keeneland versus the synthetic track at Turfway.

There is a HUGE difference in the quality of winter racing at Turfway versus spring racing at Keeneland. That's why he was 20-1 on the morning line.

He still seems like a nice horse on a secondary circuit with a synthetic track though.

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:10 pm

Many breeders who specialize in producing Thoroughbreds of rare coat colors end up producing show horses because there is a safer market for these horses, albeit the earnings are less lucrative but more satisfying. But right now there are good white performers being bred in Japan because Sunday Silence, who was a bona-fide sabino sire and a perennial leading stallion over there was the sire of a top-notch bred white mare named Shirayukihime. Shirayukihime is the dam of a very talented multiple stakes winner named Yukichan (from the cover of the top-notch track record setter, Kurofune). She is also the dam of another promising horse. See for yourself Yukichan at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuadErD ... re=related

or try searching Yukichan's other races!!