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Originally Posted by slotdirt
I'm interested in hearing about the stallion prospects of other OBS sales grads of recent vintage like Flat Out, Giant Ryan, Aikenite, and Midnight Lute.
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I don't like the chances of any of them.
The dam of Aikenite was a real runner:
Aikenite was the Lebron James of the OBS 2-year-old sales in 2009. He worked a sales best quarter mile in 20.40 and had an absolutely huge stride.
He only sold for $225,000 -- but when you consider he was sired by Yes It's True and his dam was that rat pictured above ... you could better understand why.
Hard to believe he paid $15.40 when he won his debut at Saratoga -- and Serling even relayed all of the info before the race.
Aikenite made 866K and was a multiple Graded Stakes winner, 4th in last years BC Sprint. However, his one major flaw that was not apparent at OBS was his lack of gate speed and slowness into stride.
They get a run-up start at OBS -- and hit peak speed at the start of the work. If Aikenite had gate speed -- he would have been Fabulous Strike 2.0