Snowbound Moves On...

[Jolene]

...off to California for Snowbound for what sounds like mostly quarter horse-breeding duties:

http://www.theracingjournal.com/news-684.html

[Sysonby]

Imagine..a 17 hand QH sire.

[summerhorse]

There are actually 17 hand QHs now (sire or not). Most are mostly TB though! It sounds that this will be a good move for him, give him much more opportunity for both TB and QH mares.

[tammysinnett]

Really like him good luck!!

[tbbreeder]

There are actually 17 hand QHs now (sire or not). Most are mostly TB though! It sounds that this will be a good move for him, give him much more opportunity for both TB and QH mares.

I agree. He hasn't been bred to many good TB mares, but the Pulses supported him well with their good QH mares and it's showing. He has nothing but cheap stakes winners on the TB side (assuming they stay sound long enough or don't have useless pedigrees) and he's got graded stakes horses on the QH side. He'll do much better in CA where he'll get some decent mares.

Todd Pulse told me they basically gave away breedings to anything with a working uterus, regardless of pedigree or conformation, figuring at least one was bound to hit and get him going. They got the first "big runner" with First Snowbound, but he couldn't crack $100k in earnings in two seasons before he broke down, from what I understand. His other TB runners haven't shown much, though he does have a handfull worth a second look, but most of them have quit due to unsoundness, from what I know.

I just wouldn't have one of his TBs on a bet. They're unsound - knees. I have no knowledge of how his QH babies are holding up.

Vikki

[suzyd]

Many of the Snowbound TB's were started too early and pushed too hard.
Since they tend to have big growthy bodies, many owners and trainings
started them too young. If they had been given time, I am sure they would have been more durable.
These last few years Snowbound stood for $2500. he was no longer free,
and I think you will see several lovely TB Northwest crops (05,06,07)
still to come.
I am excited that he is going to get such a great opportunity at a fairly young age...and AI too !

[EquisAmicas]

I wonder how much money was handed over for that horse? Any thoughts ?

[xfactor fan]

Saw Snowbound Superstar run, he's one of the quarter horse babies. Very impressive win, and nice looking horse. But he looked like a TB not a Quarter Horse. My guess is that Snowbound might do very well on sprinter type TB mares.

[suzyd]

I have a Snowbound yearling colt out of a daughter of Groovy. I hope your right about the sprint breeding.

[imnumberjuan]

I saw a 3 year old on of his get beat in Edmonton in a stakes race against local 5 year olds and up... but noticed he had ran 5th in the San Vicente at SA, and 3rd in the San Miguel Stakes.

Not sure what the connections were up to at the Stakes two weeks ago there were several 100 k plus earners in the field even if it was a B track.

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[suzyd]

would that be Bound to Be MVP ? he ran 3rd to Too Much Bling and Cause to Believe. He had scratched out of an Emerald race last week, so they must have though that that Edmonton race was a better spot. This was his first race of the layoff.

[imnumberjuan]

Its hard to make out what trainers/connections do/or are trying to accomplish some days (though I guess thats why they run the races).

Though I woulda thought they coulda founda "softer spot" but who knows.

[Bill from WA]

Hi

The result of one of my breeding recommendations, Sharper Edge, is conformationally a very nice specimen, and, like many Snowbounds, is a big boy (over 17 hands). Jim Penney has nursed him along nicely, and he has been very useful for his owners. The mare was a $1500 purchase, and the fee for Snowbound was $1000, so he is doing quite well for the initial investment, being a $16,000 WTBA Summer Sale yearling. He is inbred to Raise A Native 4x4, male/female. I wish Snowbound well.

Bill

[imnumberjuan]

I see he is out this sunday in Hastings in the Richmond Derby Trail Stakes - still not sure what they were doing with him at Northlands August long weekend...

[Bill from WA]

Snowbound's son Sharper Edge is going Monday in the $100,000 9 furlong BC Derby at Emerald Downs. Full field of 12. He's in pretty tough.