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I'm following all Jump Start babies so I was particularly interested in this colt in the 2nd race (he went of at over 50 -1!). He broke badly and finished well, I thought, even though no one was beating the winner. Since I'm biased, I'd love to get some objective opinions. Seems like Jump Starts need their first races so maybe this colt will do well next time out. Thanks!~

I remember that colt from the Fasig-Tipton Calder sale. He didn't look like anything special. He moved alright but he wasn't very fast. At the first preview, he worked an 1/8th in :11 1/5. At the seond preview, he worked :22 3/5. They couldn't sell him. The high bid for him was $85,000 which was below his reserve. That bid probably was not even legitimate. When a horse has a reserve, you will have the sales company and/or the consignor bidding against any real bidders. So this horse may not have even had a real bid over $50,000 or so. The horse might be able to run a little but I don't think he's anything special.
There was one good Jump Start in that sale. It was a Jump Start filly that Team Valor bought for $500,000. She actually won first-time out at Churchill a few weeks ago.