Best-Bred Afleet Alex Foal and best-bred mare.

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Best-Bred Afleet Alex Foal and best-bred mare.

Postby AfleetAlex#1fan » Sat May 26, 2007 7:17 pm

Bloodline wise what is the best bred Afleet Alex foal.Any Dr.Fager,Seattle Slew,Affirmed,Secretariat,Citation,War Admiral,Man`O War,Buckpasser,Damascus,Round Table,Cigar,Bold Ruler,Swaps,John Henry,Alydar,Assault,Ruffian,Sir Barton,Alsab, up close in the bloodlines a mare with bloodlines like this I would find away to snatch up in a heart beat goin 1,000 miles per second.Anyone know of mares for sale or that someone would be willing to sell with some of these up close.Let me know.

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Postby llbean » Sat May 26, 2007 11:05 pm

John Henry was a gelding, Cigar was completely sterile.

Ruffian died before giving issue.

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Cigar

Postby hpkingjr » Sat May 26, 2007 11:23 pm

llbean forgot to mention AA Fan, that if a horse's dad is sterile, chances are they're sterile too.

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Postby Blue feather » Sun May 27, 2007 5:27 am

Is it possible to have a sterile Dad?

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Postby cewright » Sun May 27, 2007 7:44 am

Jordan

If you are looking for a mare, a good place to look is in the regional and national sales. These sales sometimes have mares with the breeding you are looking for. You can view the catalogues at the auction sites (fasigtipton.com etc.) When you find the mare you want you can get someone to bid on it for you. You need to secure local representation at the sale because if you are the final bidder, you are responsible for the care of the horse once she leaves the ring.

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Postby madelyn » Sun May 27, 2007 8:16 am

Oh stop. For heaven's sake. Do not let this thread wander on and on, becoming absolutely enormous, while taunting this young poster.

This poster is not going to buy a mare. It is VERY likely that now and then he drops in to see if he can get you all scurrying around, making yet more suggestions that are all the same suggestions, and takes extreme pleasure in the amazing amount of responses. Pete had a perfectly good mare for sale a few weeks ago, who was already approved to Afleet Alex, for a very reasonable price. #1 Fan did not respond. Not once.

It might be a much better move to stop pandering to his need for drama and attention.
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Postby AfleetAlex#1fan » Sun May 27, 2007 8:56 am

I actually did post there......Madelyn...By the time I found the mare she was sold.I was really upset as she was approved to Afleet Alex on my Birthday.

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Jordan

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Postby Laurierace » Sun May 27, 2007 11:18 am

Wanting a mare by Cigar reminds me of the conversation I had with a jockey who was apparently the poster boy for the term "pin head." He went on and on about how he was going to go out west and capture a wild thoroughbred and bring it back to Pimlico to race......

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Postby Pete » Sun May 27, 2007 11:27 am

Hi HPKingJr,

hpkingjr wrote:AA Fan, that if a horse's dad is sterile, chances are they're sterile too.


That was very funny. Actually, it's hard to prove inherited sterility in the offspring of sterile stallions. It could help if there were any offspring.

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Postby Pete » Sun May 27, 2007 12:26 pm

Hi Laurierace,

Sounds like a movie script.

Guy goes out West, finds super fast wild thoroughbred, brings him back East (Lord - why not Del Mar if he was already out West), he trains up a storm, is entered into the Preakness for his first start and then...

Screechhhhhh...............he doesn't have those pesky Jockey Club papers!

The guy's kids cry, his wife is soulfully supportive and he searches the walls of his garage for meaning in life.

The Jockey Club postpones the Preakness pending DNA confirmation that the wild thoroughbred, tentatively named Feroshus Atroshus, is purebred. The trainer falls ill (rumor that he's read the script) and the Guy takes over the training of the horse, riding washed-up jock, Jerry Murphy in the mornings. Murphy, known as 'Turf Smurf Murph', got his moniker from his small stature and ability riding on the grass, comforts the supportive wife and that leads to a torrid affair.

The kids, abandoned by their lust ridden mother stay at the barn with their father, reduced to eating hay and sweetfeed. Julie, his oldest daughter, replaces Turf Smurf Murph riding Feroshus Atroshus.

The Jockey Club relents and issues papers for Feroshus and re-schedules the Preakness for next Friday, the day before the Belmont Stakes.

Julie and Feroshus are adored by the media who are quick to see a human interest story and she's nicknamed Julie noCrone for her youthful good looks.

Feroshus is the 3-1 second choice in the betting (uh-huh) and Tom Durkin (working The Preakness) announces. 'Julie NoCrone replaces Turf Smurf Murph on first time starter Feroshus Atroshus.' The crowd roars the race begins and Feroshus wins in a spirited stretch duel.

The Guy accepts congratulations from other horsemen who now realize his ability and accept him as one of them. He and his wife tearfully reconcile, "I knew that I'd gone too far for you" he says. "No Honey, it's actually my fetish for small men" and she flushes as jockey Marcel Pinot Noir winks at her as he passes.

But his heart is elsewhere, there are plans to be made, afterall, the Belmont is tomorrow.

I think the realism is too stark, it could work but would need an infusion of fiction.

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Postby Crystal » Sun May 27, 2007 2:11 pm

god Pete, Sell it to Hollywood and go buy this kid a mare!

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Postby KamiBrooks » Sun May 27, 2007 2:21 pm

Wow, Pete, you are on a roll!

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Postby Ruffian » Sun May 27, 2007 3:36 pm

:lol:

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Postby pfrsue » Sun May 27, 2007 5:03 pm

If this is going to be a Disney movie, remember that someone's parent has to die. Tragically.

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Postby madelyn » Sun May 27, 2007 5:30 pm

AfleetAlex#1fan wrote:I actually did post there......Madelyn...By the time I found the mare she was sold.I was really upset as she was approved to Afleet Alex on my Birthday.

Thanks!

Jordan


Pete told me you never contacted him regarding the mare. You could have sent him a private message. The mare listing was out there for days.
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