I "salute" Phipps

[hdembski]

Gotta love what i see today in the Belmont card "Salute" Unbridled on top, Personel Ensign on bottom! Yesterday "smuggler" who won, breed the best to the best, thank God for breeders like him..

[LSB]

thank God for breeders like him..

I have to agree, it's wonderful the way he has nurtured several wonderful families through numerous generations. Unfortunately people like him, who are willing to make a longterm financial committment to breeding excellence, currently seem to be a dying breed.

[skeenan]

Thanks for pointing this out... having a Personal Flag mare and not seeing any Unbridled crosses on the nicking report, it may be an avenue to look into!

[hdembski]

Salute didn't win, but having bet for over 20 years i love seeing the different combinations of horses he comes up with and how they will turn out. I was hoping survivalist and defer would have been in the derby but not to be, but 2 more great horses from him. Having bet for so long, when i see the black silks with cherry red cap, you just have such respect and admiration for what that family has done. I saw Pletcher up at Saratoga and he was just acting like he walked on water. Easy to do well when your getting every best bred horse from your millionaire owners.

[LSB]

Last September at the Keeneland sale I bought a Phipps bred filly from the Claiborne consignment. Her name is History (she was already named and you have to love those Claiborne one word names) and she's by Coronado's Quest x Colonial Review by Pleasant Colony (Colonial Review is a full sister to Dance Colony.)

Now while I'm waiting for her to grow up, I get to watch her well-bred and talented siblings race in the black and cherry silks.

[hdembski]

did a quick look up, i love that breeding, 17 crosses to Phalarsis. I'd love to own a piece of that one! I'm envious of any owner. I'm just a better who dreams of owning some day, but owning seems to be for the rich. I'm hoping to find a situation where i can own maybe a meager 5% of a horse, one time fee and sit back and say i at least own part, or to go down to the winners circle, someday maybe!!! I'll be looking for HISTORY!!!

[LSB]

Thanks for the kind words about History. She's a nice filly and I'm delighted to have her. To tell the truth I had no idea she had any crosses to Phalaris in her pedigree, much less 17. Probably heresy to admit on this forum, but as a breeder and an owner, I'm much more interested in what the families have done in the last 3-4 generations than what they were doing a century ago.