It has been about 75 days since my first post. The first horse I “mythically” selected from the Ocala sale is entered today at Del Mar. He is one of 8 two year olds entered in the third race at Del Mar today. They will go 5f on the turf. He is owned by Gary Barber and trained by Peter Miller. The morning line is 5 to 1.
Let’s see what we can learn from this first horse:
- Miller gave the horse three weeks off after the sale, and then used 7 works spaced at 6 or 7 days. The fastest was 48.0 from the gate which was 5/36.
- The horse had worked 21.0 at the sale, which was fast, but 40 horses worked faster at 2f. The horse had a 4/14 birthday, which is a little later than average.
- The horse only cost $45,000 for a son of Dialed In, one of the lowest prices for a horse that worked 21.0.
- I had called this horse “improver” because Dialed In was not really a “value” sire. He has seen his fee raised to $20,000 because of good results. The story was this year’s crop had even better mares.
- This mare was a very slow horse and the second dam was not much either. There was a bunch of good horses under the third dam.
- The mare was a daughter of Bernstein, who ran well in May as a 2 year old.
Dialed In is a son of Mineshaft, and a grandson of AP Indy, so it was not really expected that this would be my first runner. Turf is not really a Dialed In strength, so this might just be a prep
Buying A Race Horse 