TDN: Team Valor buys Summer Soiree with Oaks in mind

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I wish I could book her purchase.

If only such a thing was possible!!

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

If only such a thing was possible!!

It was an easy buy for him however. Given that a Team Valor horse won the major colt stake at Turfway that day, and is now headed to the KY Derby, selling shares in this filly will be a piece of cake, as many of Animal Kingdom's owners will likely buy into her in order to have an Oaks filly as well. Plus, on paper at least, she looks great.

Obviously, you and I think it will prove a disasterously bad purchase.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Yep.

However, if I could book the listed purchase prices of some horses who sell for a lot of money at 2yo sales - I'd be yielding some insane ROI.

There are sometimes horses who sell as high as the 100K to 250K range - that aren't worth much more than the meat they have on them. They have no hope even if they stay healthy.

[NTamm1215]

Summer Soiree seems to have found a home on the grass. The field for the Boiling Springs wasn't exactly stellar but she crushed them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/hor...ory?id=6704639

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Summer Soiree seems to have found a home on the grass. The field for the Boiling Springs wasn't exactly stellar but she crushed them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/hor...ory?id=6704639

That was definitely some performance.

[Calzone Lord]

All the other races carded for the turf were rained off that day. You can see some super exaggerated margins of victory on wet turf courses sometimes.

Will be interesting to see how she performs on a firm turf. She did win that stake at Turfway by a million lengths in her only synthetic race though -so who knows.

Cool breeding: War Front to a Mazel Trick mare. Mazel Trick ran like friggen Swaps for Frankel once he took him off the turf and ran him on dirt. That horse never lost on dirt - and looked like the best in the country at any distance in '99.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Cool breeding: War Front to a Mazel Trick mare. Mazel Trick ran like friggen Swaps for Frankel once he took him off the turf and ran him on dirt. That horse never lost on dirt - and looked like the best in the country at any distance in '99.

Did that horse ever run further than 8.5f?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

It was an easy buy for him however. Given that a Team Valor horse won the major colt stake at Turfway that day, and is now headed to the KY Derby, selling shares in this filly will be a piece of cake, as many of Animal Kingdom's owners will likely buy into her in order to have an Oaks filly as well. Plus, on paper at least, she looks great.

Obviously, you and I think it will prove a disasterously bad purchase.

"When Mr. Irwin bought this filly from Larry Jones, he felt the grass was probably in her future."
Comment from Motion after the race.

I'm sure he mentioned this along with the Oaks when selling shares.