Toccet moves to Oaklahoma

bdw0617 · Postby **bdw0617** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:57 pm

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/breedi ... ahoma.aspx

poor toccet

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:32 pm

and poor Toccet02 :cry:

It doesn't look like a bad place though.

da hossman · Postby **da hossman** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:02 pm

Mighty Acres is a very nice place and Toccet will be well treated there. It will be interesting to see how many mares he gets.

I guess this definitely puts PA above OK in the regional market pecking order!

Bohemia · Postby **Bohemia** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:28 am

In a very rough year for Pa. stallions (except the Ghost Ridge trio, and who knows if you can believe how many mares they bred, can't wait to see the ROMB from The Jockey Club in Oct.) Toccet's book this year was in excess of 50 mares, which is extremely good considering there were a lot of Pa. stallions who barely cracked the 20-mare mark (many struggled to get even 10 mares).

Plus, the Ghost Ridge stallions were the beneficiaries of many shareholder mares and mares from outside the region, while Toccet drew primarily from Pa. breeders. My understanding is that Castleton Lyons sold him outright because he hadn't sired a Gr. 1 winner (or even Gr. 1-placed, I believe). Sorry to see him go, we'll see what stallion replaces him at Dana Point, if any.

zinn21 · Postby **zinn21** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:26 am

Toccet gets some nice runners. He ought to be a big plus in Oklahoma.

casallc · Postby **casallc** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:20 am

Randy Blair, the manager at Mighty Acres, is a nice guy and will treat the people almost as well as he treats the horses in his charge. Dr. Center is not a veterinarian, as the Thoroughbred Times stated, he is a dentist.

Poor Toccet? It could have been worse - he could have gone to Arkansas, where Center lives, and bred no mares.