Starship

Carpe Diem was the first sire that I decided was a “must have”. He had a decent but brief racing career, but more importantly he was so good looking as a 2-year old that Stonestreet paid $1,600,000 for him. His offspring’s racing results have not been great, so he “out of favor”. There were 20 in the sale

There was one hip that jumped off the page. #716. The dam was a G2 winner out of an Arch mare. The mare also producer 3 $100,000 winners from her first 4 foals. The mare ran 10 Equibase speed figures over 100, including a 115.

What more could you ask for? Oops I forgot to tell you one thing. The mare did not break her maiden until she was 4, but then became a great race horse. I might have expected this colt to work in 12.2, but he went a slow 10.2. Just stare at this pedigree and race record and you will realize that all folks care about is precocity.

I would pay 10x for this horse if he had worked 10.1, for a 10.2 I thought I would pay at least 5x, yet hammer fell at $40,000, or just 2.66x

The real world buyer was a guy even more crazy than me. Laurence Leavy is a lawyer known as Marlins Man for his crazy antics at baseball game, but he also the owner of Starship Stables (yes he is a Star Trek fan). Starship has won over 250 races and $5,000,000 in purses. Mr. Leavy might be crazy like a fox.

In Mr Leavy’s honor lets call him:

Quixote’s Starship