I know from fantasy baseball that when your top picks get away from you, there can be a tendency to overpay for your second choices.
I am backing off my second choice, the Nyquist colt #68, and will only pay up to $75,000. Nyquist is not really my kind of sire, too precocious. The dam here is also difficult to evaluate because King of Kings was such a controversial horse. Since this mare produced a Bashford Manor winner, I just cannot see paying up for a 10.2 work that was probably expected. I was trying to hard to be creative, and getting too far away from my strategy. I guess if they give this horse away I will still take it.
I am also backing off because I pushed myself to look at other sires, and I found something I guess I like. I was never a fan of Exaggerator as a race horse, but I am just going to call him Son of Curlin, and close my eyes.
That leads me to #367, an Exaggerator out of a Silver Deputy mare. The work was a solid 10.2, the nick is B+, for a 5/9 filly. I will call that work faster than expected, and call this pick more in line with my strategy. She sold for $75,000 as a yearling, but the Exaggerators’s have not been selling that well. Maybe I can get her for under $120,000.
Buying A Race Horse 