color wrote:Jorge wrote:color wrote:Recently one of our best German race horse trainers has bought a frame overo yearling at an auction for 12000 Euro and he will certainly train that one to run.
Can you share the name and pedigree of this very interesting case?
http://www.turf-times.de/tt-artikel/hof ... nsport-spa
Google Translation:
Silvery Moon is the most colorful horse that ever was in the team of Mario Hofer. And the very prominent, right left front of the main barn. Not to be overlooked. A pinto especially the stained article with two different colored eyes. Right blue, brown left. "We have bought ourselves primarily as a fun horse," said Mario Hofer, "rather than a racehorse." On Tuesday, the yearling went through the auction ring at ARQANA and was sold for 12,000 euros Manfred Hofer. "There was applause throughout the auction ring," says trainer Mario Hofer, no wonder, because the horse was the eye catcher of the whole auction.
A horse with two faces, "a thoroughbred pass" stressed Manfred Hofer, "so that we can run with it theoretically race." Try to do the Hofer brothers who still have to decide among themselves the exact ownership, which in each case, because such a horse has star potential. Although the classical descent for a racehorse is not available, "but as a riding horse there is always a market for it." In any case, Silvery Moon is now to me exercising normally. "The looks great," says coach Hofer, "now weighs 480 kilos - Pastorius itself does not bring much more on the scale." The father I was Framed comes from the USA, a race itself has never been disputed and its clear number of offspring was previously also winless, after all, ended the two-year-old Markus Tregoning-trained Gilded frame with Hayley Turner in the saddle on his third life starting in Leicester September at a second place, the mother could Artzola gewinnnen a few smaller races.
"Look First" is the motto at Mario Hofer, while the brother Manfred, the main job is now working again as an agent, is already beginning to make plans for the marketing, "This is a horse with a lot of imagination - but I'm going to think of something leave! "