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Since I got my trainer's license, I have been going to the sales to try to buy those unfashionable RUNNERS. Breed to sell is a crapshoot as you cannot accurately forecast what will be HOT and what will be NOT. So just like Craps, you have to play in multiple spots to try to cash in. And there is no Pass Line.
Madelyn has a good point about the sales/guessing what will be in fashion, but there's another splash of cold hard reality and that's where will a resulting foal run?
His best races were going long on turf. Except possibly at Woodbine, turf racing is at best a second choice in North America and more often than not is an afterthought/where you try your horse when you've tried everything else. For a turf horse to make money, it needs to be at least allowance class (because there are fewer turf races, so you have to win at a higher level to make the same money). For a distance runner (>9f/1800m), there are also very few races and so you have to be at least allowance class.
You can have a wonderful, sound, talented athlete, but if there are no races carded for your athlete to run, you will not win or make money. It's that simple. The same thing happened with North Light and probably will happen with Bullet Train...they want to run long on the weeds and there are just not enough races to be profitable for those horses. As a result, they don't sell well and you don't see as many of them bred as you do dirt sprinters and milers.
As for what bloodlines for a horse like Musketier, the obvious ones are Danzig, Blushing Groom, and Sunday Silence.