A curiosity
 

Just was perusing BH.com and saw an article on how popular the Indian Charlie 2yos were at the just concluded auction, when I came across this weird tidbit.

Two months ago, the $300,000 colt was acquired for just $13,000 by Sonia Chapman at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March 2-year-old sale from Jerry Bailey Sales Agency, agent. He was also consigned to the 2010 Keeneland September yearling sale, but failed to meet his reserve when the bidding stopped at $70,000.

How can a horse go from 70k to 13k in six months, then all the way up to 300k just two months later???????

The first part I can easily see, but 13k to 300k in two months? What could possibly explain that?

He can look forward to about 4 starts in his career and an inability to stretchout.:)

There is a blurb about it in TDN today, and I talked about extensively on the show with Satish Sanan. It was an amazing success. The colt had been a little behind in his training and had an unimpressive breeze at OBS. The Chapmans that hooked him in Ocala said he got better with every subsequent breeze and then he was super sharp last week (:10.2). I thought it was the best story of the sale.

Were the people who sold him for 13k semi retahded?

It is very likely that Carolyn Vogel is the one who will come out looking semi-retarded.

The Chapman's are sharp. My recollection is that Sonia was one of Charlie Wittingham's "angels".

Having looked at this horse yesterday morning, the price is mind-boggling. Hard to imagine him staying sound.

Interesting comments.

The whole thing just didn't make sense to me.

For 13k, I don't care how he worked, he had to look like a wreck!

Sales are a funny thing. Things I've learned from being around them.

1. The best looking horses who vet out clean get everyone on them and go for too much money.

2. The horses with a flaw or two can easily get overlooked and go cheap.

3. Order in which a horse comes up can also hurt the price.

4. And, last but not least, the horses can change physically and mentally pretty drastically in a very short time at that stage of their life.

*** The price doesn't reflect the value of the animal. It simply reflects the price someone was willing to pay in the vacuum that it the sales pavilion.

The Green Monkey. Nuff said