A lot of horse buying seems to be about “fashion”. You want to buy what the other “cool kids” are buying. A counter strategy to this might be to look for obscure stallions. Few could be more obscure than We Miss Artie. He only had 6 yearlings sell last year. We Miss Artie is the son of Artie Schiller and a nice Fusaichi Pegasus mare.
Hip #351 was the only We Miss Artie in the sale. He came alone, without any brothers or sisters. The dam was was a very solid allowance horse at Woodbine running a 104. The 2nd dam was by Dynaformer. The dam has also produced a graded stakes winner.
The work was a very solid 21.1 for an April 19th foal. Maybe paying $30,000 or 6x for him was a bit much, but he all alone and someone had to be his friend.
The real world buyer was Sterling Racing (no not Donald Sterling, I did check). They have 23 wins in 163 tries. I am glad they gave this colt a good home.
His real is already given as Artie on My Mind, but we will call him:
Quixote’s Alone
at least until he hits the track.
Buying A Race Horse 