Texas Fasig Tipton Sale

[Derring]

Fasig Tiption 2-year-old in training sale.....

Hip # 2 (Altar Boy) looks good on paper. He has a similar pedigree (as well as the same order) to UAE horse of the year, Festival of Light (AP Indy; Danzig; Alydar; Courtly Dee).

Any opinions?

[HR LLC]

Hip #2 has a nice pedigree. He sold for 22k as a yearling, well below Pulpit's avg of 230k. If he works well they should get a good return on him since most of the horses in the sale are out of Texas based sires.

[Derring]

http://www.fasigtipton.com/catalogs/2006/0404/2.pdf

The sale page........

[brooke]

I will be at this sale! anyone else making there presence?

[DoubleDownStables]

22k for a Pulpit. You better have him thoroughly vetted. They may juice him up and he may run a bit in the show, but I bet he has big issues.

[Derring]

It's piqued my interest now. I'm not in the market to buy but I love the pedigree.
I'll see how he looks when I go to the sale.

Brooke, maybe you'll do the same and give us your opinion?

[brooke]

yes, i will sure do that!

[HR LLC]

My plan is to attend the sale with my trainer.

[BenB]

Bertolini had last year a very good start in the UK on the freshmen,s list So something is there, while it should not be there. Concerning hip 2

[HR LLC]

Double Down,

I have to assume something is wrong with hip #2 also. If this horse has a pedigree like that out of a red hot sire like Pulpit. He would not go for 22k. Not when Pulpit yearlings avg 230k.

[Bedouwia]

What about Hip # 143? Festive Rain, a bay filly by Festival of Light (note postiings regarding this stallion under a different section of this forum!) by a Thuder Gulch mare, Little Rainmaker. Pretty nice pedigree. Would you take a chance on the temperment issue, since it is a filly and not a colt?

[HR LLC]

Bedouwia,
I am more on the racing end of the business so I would purchase anything I think I can win races with regardless of the temperment.

[sb]

Note on pedigree and sires:

I look at the sire line to see whether it is ascending or decending. In the case of Pulpit, he's still a young , so things are still subject to improvement. Also, money won does not necessarily indicate the class of a horse, but it's today's measuring stick for the most part, I'm afraid.
What I personally like about this line is that it is Bold Ruler/Nasrullah. What I don't like is the descending number of starts.


SEATTLE SLEW 1974 [BC] (83.97)........17-14-2-0....... $1,208,726

1050 f, 769 r, 523 w, 114 SW
AEI 3.70, CI 3.76, AWD 8.54


A.P. INDY 1989 (68.1) ......................11-8-0-1..........$2,979,815
703 f, 532 r, 359 w, 87 SW
AEI 3.18, CI 4.13, AWD 8.88 2005 # of mares bred: 115

major winner; horse of the year Mineshaft

PULPIT 1994 (49.68)................................. 6-4-1-0.............$712,200
340 f, 206 r, 131 w, 20 SW
AEI 2.29, CI 3.18, AWD 8.25 2005 # of mares bred: 109

definite decline as race horse over against his sire and grand sire.

Horse with a lot of talent: CORINTHIAN trying to run for the roses....

PURGE [2001]..............15-6-1-2-1.........Vinery..............$20,000 [NA]
SKY MESA [2000]......... 6-3-1-1.............Three himney.. $30,000 [108]
STROLL [2000]..Turf.... 16-7-3-1.......... Clairborne........$7,500 [58]
TAPIT [2001]............ ....6-3-0-0............ Gainesway.......$15,000 [142]

[Derring]

Bedouwia,
I am more on the racing end of the business so I would purchase anything I think I can win races with regardless of the temperment.

I agree.....

[henthorn]

Temperament is only an issue if you are planning a mating or assessing an individual. If the horse is trainable, you'll get an idea. If the horse is crazy or excessively timid, I'd look elsewhere for prospective runners.