Frost for $1,500
 

Unless it's a typo hip #1303 went for $1,500 late in the Thurs Keeneland sale. Geesh, you don't normally see this low of a price so early in the sale.
Hip #1303...

http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/sep07/pdfs/1303.pdf

I wonder what's wrong with him

Probably his face


I wish I would have bought him

Ur right $1500, hell u can make that running 5th in one race down here in La. for goodness sakes. Did he have 3 legs?

Wow... that is a bargain, but if you look at the mare's lineage, is it all that impressive? Great great grandsire is northern dancer, but the last 2 generations I'm a little unfamiliar with (on the dam's side).

I'm guessing,PMAY,but was he bought by Roopishwar Rampadarrat?HE HE!!!:D

Was in the wrong sale. Would have brought a lot more in Lousiana, where much of the family's black-type comes from. Eskimo and Premiership were adequate sires in their markets, not what one normally sees in KY.

Oh Roopy? Does he still manage to win at a 5% clip goin up against the Robertsons and Ness? He's my loveable underdog.

I did just realize something, isn't Mr Greeley god a stud fee of at least 10,000? I think it might even be 30k? Then yeah, I'd say the breeders lost their ass on that one.

Mr Greeley is currently standing for $75k. That horse must have had 3 legs or one leg skrewed on upside down.

Frost was bought by little known NY trainer, Finger Lakes, Linda Dixon. Curious there was no reserve.

Holy **** 75K! Wow!
If that horse had only 3 legs and pegleg for a 4th, at only $1,500 I'd buy it too. The risk/reward is so low there. I'm actually cheering for this horse to be a monster, just to hear how it'll be rouncing the sheik's and the Coolmore's million dollar babies.

Coolmore and Godolphin will have to start shipping to the lakes for that to happen, but I agree, he might be the kind of horse to pull for.

Mr. G's fee was $35K at the time of cover.

i saw an unbridled - life's magic yearling go for $5,000 once.

The risk is in paying training bills for a horse that noone was willing to bid on (with one exception)

I friend of mine used to work for a trainer who would try to find "fancy pedigree, cheap" and he never had much luck with it. It seems than horses priced to their breeding do better. Finding a $1500 horse by a $75k stallion may seem like a steal but it probably isn't. At least if it's a filly, her breeding may earn her some residual value. A colt will have to prove himself. As Cannon says, you still have to pay the epenses on the horse while you give it a go. As a yearling, they are looking at breaking/training/shipping etc for a bare minimum of 6 mos. THAT assumes that all goes beautifully and baby is ready for a 2f dash at Calder in March! More likely, if he races at all then it won't likely be for a year.

How freaking great would that be??? Kinda like Jambalaya winning the Million, after being bought for $1,500. Thats a nice little tidy profit for ya.:D

I looked it up on the CD.

It sold for $3K at KEE NOV weanling in '98.

Re-sold for 200K at KEE SEP yearling in '99

And Proceeded to have a career race record of 23-1-1-1 and made $11,948 in earnings.

King Bridle was the name of this fine animal.

yeah, that's right, 3k it was!
who was the sucker that paid 200k?

how about r. j.'s indy? you could have claimed him for around 5k at some point, and i think he was a complete horse!

he was in ap indy's first crop and i believe that he was the last foal of the great ballade.