Another Winner

One of the reason’s to write this blog is that some folks might not believe the stories if I did not write them down.

On June 14th I wrote a post about a horse I called Quixote’s Bargain, when he was given a real name by his real owner it was Brooklyn Strong. The horse had reasonable work at Ocala and very nice pedigree on the female side. Nobody had any use for a son of Wicked Strong, so he sold for $5,000. The new owner, Mark Schwartz, was 0 for 24 according to Equibase.

Today, Brooklyn Strong won his first race at Delaware Park. It was a 1 mile race for $40,000 maiden claimers, he ran for trainer Danny Velasquez. The jockey was Abner Adomo. He only paid $7.60. He earned a decent equibase fig of 73.

The dam was a decent turf sprinter out of Medaglia d’Oro, and also producer two decent horses. The second dam was by the ultimate plodder Thunder Gulch, and she had produced nine winners.

I really don’t care that Bob Baffert won the Derby again. I don’t care that Chad Brown wins three turf races every bleeping day.

All I really care about is that Mark Schwartz went swimming with all the “sharks” at Ocala and came way the winner. He bought a horse with and underrated sire and a nice pedigree and an average work, and three months later he won a a race.

I want to nominate Mr. Schwartz for an Eclipse award for the best purchase at or under $5,000.

There is every chance this pick was pure blind luck. I picked 20 horses out of the 1200 on offer at Ocala, this is the second one to win.

I consider this one very small indication that there might be value in the under $10,000 price range at Ocala. I consider this a medium size indication that stamina pedigrees are on sale at the training sales.

Congratulations to Mark Schwartz, you are my new racing hero.