SPINOFF: Sales chat

[sumitas]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The sales topper of a 460 page book.

I truly hope the horse looked good. He was the sales topper after all

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by sumitas

I truly hope the horse looked good. He was the sales topper after all

You catch on quick my man.

[sumitas]

DrugS
"The sales topper of a 460 page book."

LOL I had a delayed reaction to your humorous response to Rupert's observations.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by sumitas

I truly hope the horse looked good. He was the sales topper after all

You'd be surprised at some of the horses that sell really well who don't look like they can run a lick. There was a Speighstown colt at Fasig Tipton Calder that sold for around $1.7 million. I didn't like the horse at all. I wouldn't have paid $100,000 for that horse.

By the way, you can't take the sales results at face value because there are so many secret deals and scams going on. You have trainers working as agents for their owners and buying $300,000 horses for $800,000 and then splitting the extra $500,000 with the consignor.

You have guys buying horses for $400,000 that they already owned before the sale. Let's say it was a horse that they bought for $70,000 as a yearling. They buy the horse back for $400,000 as a two year old and then they syndicate the horse with investors valuing the horse at $400,000. The investors don't know that the guy really bought the horse for $70,000 as a yearling.

There are so many deals going on at those sales that it is ridiculous. Many of the sales prices are phony.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

You'd be surprised at some of the horses that sell really well who don't look like they can run a lick. There was a Speighstown colt at Fasig Tipton Calder that sold for around $1.7 million. I didn't like the horse at all. I wouldn't have paid $100,000 for that horse.

By the way, you can't take the sales results at face value because there are so many secret deals and scams going on. You have trainers working as agents for their owners and buying $300,000 horses for $800,000 and then splitting the extra $500,000 with the consignor.

You have guys buying horses for $400,000 that they already owned before the sale. Let's say it was a horse that they bought for $70,000 as a yearling. They buy the horse back for $400,000 as a two year old and then they syndicate the horse with investors valuing the horse at $400,000. The investors don't know that the guy really bought the horse for $70,000 as a year

There are so many deals going on at those sales that it is ridiculous. Many of the sales prices are phony.

Those type of things couldn't possibly happen in this game.

[Bobby Fischer]

more than ready / silver deputy

what do you expect out of this horse ? miler or stretch out on grass?

leaning towards turf/synth or a dirt closer?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

more than ready / silver deputy

what do you expect out of this horse ? miler or stretch out on grass?

leaning towards turf/synth or a dirt closer?

It's hard to tell exactly how far he will run. I don't think he'll have a problem getting two-turns, but it's hard to tell if he will be able to get 1 1/4 miles.

With regard to what surface he will like, he worked awesome on the synthetic track at Ocala. So I would be extremely confident that he likes synthetic tracks. I don't see any reason why he wouldn't like regular dirt too. I have no idea whether he will like the grass or not. Some of the More Than Readys like it quite a bit.

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

I didn't like the Birdstone at all when I watched him on Windows Media Player, which doesn't have good video quality at all. He uses his knee way too much, and then comes straight down with it.

Cajun, a better way to watch the preview videos is to stream them through Bearshare. The window is smaller, but the quality is much better than a program like windows media player if you are using that. However, I still like the DVDs way better than online, but you have to either go to the sale to get them or you have to be a VIP in racing for them to pay the money to send you one.

I loved a particular horse at Fasig Tipton Calder last year when I watched his preview online. When I saw the same horse work on DVD, I didn't like the way he moved at all, and couldn't believe the difference of online vs. TV. Bearshare seems to work pretty good though...better than everything else online I have tried anyway.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

You'd be surprised at some of the horses that sell really well who don't look like they can run a lick. There was a Speighstown colt at Fasig Tipton Calder that sold for around $1.7 million. I didn't like the horse at all. I wouldn't have paid $100,000 for that horse.

That horse turned out to be Munnings. 2nd place finisher in the Champagne.