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

[Pete]

Hi Folks,

OK, let’s see if we can make movie making into a democratic process.


The wife and jockey Mario Pinot Noir run away together in her car and are killed in a tragic accident when Mario realizes too late that he can't reach the brakes.

Feroshus Atroshus wins the Belmont on the day after the Preakness. NYRA announces that for the foreseeable future that the Belmont will be run on the second Saturday in June, or the day after the Preakness, whichever is first.

Breedmore, the world's largest stallion farm announces that they've purchased the breeding rights to Feroshus Atroshus and he begins immediately to breed between races but sadly proves to be sterile. Public outcry forces the Jockey Club to allow DNA embryo cloning, 'in this case only', and Breedmore immediately announces that his book will be strictly limited to 2000 nurse mares. His fee is set at $154,673, live foal payable on the day that the embryo is implanted and that he will be shuttled for Southern Hemisphere duty with a fee to be announced.

Feroshus Atroshus will, in time, be the only horse ever to lead the General Sire List and be named Horse of the Year in the same year!

The Guy is crestfallen by the loss of his wife, his life spins out of control and his training career collapses. He finds himself at Beulah Park where he meets the Beulah Twins and marries them both after being granted a special dual secular and spiritual dispensation. Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio presides at the nuptials.

I sell the movie rights to Mel Gibson's Icon Productions for $40,000.02 and then buy all shares of a particular racing partnership (guess), leaving me the 02c that I've offered in these posts. Mr. Gibson's movie based on the script is met with mixed reviews and controversy. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times sums it up well,

"While an excellent telling of the Noah's Arc tale, it's doubtful that the biblical Noah would have insisted that the two humans be named Mel Gibson and Robyn Moore and that all deck hands take an oath that they are not Jewish. There were rumors of difficulty on the set with the author who claimed that it was supposed to be a film about horse racing but in the end (Mel) Gibson's vision is the finished product that we see".

A spokesman for the Pope said that he liked he movie but thought that it was going to be about horse racing.

Regards,

Pete

[Crystal]

Two thumbs up! Fine Holiday Fun! The Daily BS was going to declare this film the winner by a longshot, until it failed the drug test in the spit barn. So by DQ Pirates 3 takes the box office. ($112 mill in the first weekend-impressive.

[Ruffian]

Pete, so well thought out and planned. cannot stop laughing. give us the sequel!!!

[geowarrior]

Well of course the movie gets Oscars in all the important categories, but the short one killed in the tragic accident can't reach the mike to give his speech.

Feroshus Atroshus, on the other hand is so articulate and ACTS so virile that he begins his campaign for the presidency immediately. And he doesn't even poop on the Red Carpet.

[Laurierace]

Well my guess that the only problem with your story is if said pinhead goes to all the trouble of going out west to capture the wild thoroughbred, he will want to ride it in the Preakness as well.
Can I get a share to Feroshus for listening to his conversation as long as I did before laughing hysterically in his face??

I have another one. A then 16 year old girl (the age is relevant) told me a few years ago that she was at the foaling when Seattle Slew was born, in Washington!

[Kari]

I have another one. A then 16 year old girl (the age is relevant) told me a few years ago that she was at the foaling when Seattle Slew was born, in Washington!

Are you serious?!?!?! I must've been a smarter 16-YO than I thought!

OTOH, I don't think I realized that "The Black Stallion" series of books was fiction until I was 9 or 10. I even wrote to the Jockey Club enquiring as to why they weren't outcrossing TB mares with Bedouin stallions. Yes, they wrote me back. They were my TB Google before the Internet came along, bless their hearts!

[Kari]

In Jordan's defense, I'm sure that he meant that he wanted a mare with the same parents/relatives as horses like John Henry, Cigar, and Ruffian.

Jordan, have you found any upcoming sales with an internet catalog available? A sales catalog is a listing of all the horses scheduled to sell at a particular sale. Their "sales page" is a listing with their pedigree, hip number, owner, breeder, and the produce record of the first three (or four) dams. If the horse has raced, it will also show the race record. If the horse is a mare that has been bred, it will also show information on her foals (year of birth, sex, sire) a little on their race records, and sometimes their produce records. Young horses will have their nominations listed (NY-bred, Breeders' Cup nominated, etc.).
Here's last year's Keenland Sept. Yearling Sale. If you click on the brown words with the name or "Hip (X)", it will open up the horse's sales page. Most yearlings that go thru a sale aren't named, because there's always a chance that the new owner wants to name the horse themselves, and it costs a lot to change the name.

http://ww2.keeneland.com/sales/frames/s ... talog.aspx

Here's another one, in CA. They'll even send you a catalog.

http://www.barretts.com/

Have you checked out the sales forum here? That will tell you about upcoming sales sometimes, and people post links to catalogs.

PS: I think now is a good time for anyone who is willing and has one to donate an old APR set to Jordan, or burn him one. I don't have a set (naturally), so I don't know how easy they are to copy. I would have given a limb at Jordan's age to have something like that.