A Winner and a Loser

Let’s pick one winner and one loser from the sale.

Loser first. It would be easy to pick of Mr Durant for his $450,000 Runhappy buy (few others sold well), but that would be too easy

Instead I will go with #648. Cromwell Bloodstock bought an Algorithms for $120,000 or almost 25x the stud fee for a horse that worked a below average 21.3. The dam is a Sunland/Albuquerque sprinter of modest distinction. Maybe this is the best looking horse on the planet, but 25x for a slow work?

And the winner is?

#1147 a Noble Mission purchased by Ronald Spatz for $25,000 or 1.25x the stud fee. This guy worked as sold 21.1 despite being a April 29th foal. The dam by Lemon Drop Kid has produced three very solid horses in 3 tries. Noble Mission is a full brother to Frankel, and his son won the Travers last year.

I was out bid for #529 and forgot to look at my second choice for Noble Mission. If I had one “do over”, it would be this horse. I have cashed some nice bets on Mr. Spatz in the last few years. I will be watching for this colt.

Honorable mention to:

#493 a Street Sense that worked 20.3 and went for $80,000 to Richard Vega

#475 a Not This Time that worked a nice 21.0, yet only sold for $75,000 to Jason Cline

Although none of these is as good as the Di Paola’s $20,000 Bodemeister out of very solid Kitten’s Joy mare and also worked 21.0. This was really the buy of the sale, but I cannot nominate my own purchases.