Get Her Number won the GI American Pharoah at Santa Anita, and is headed to the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile. He put in a commanding performance leaving the $1,000,000 Starlight colt Spielberg in the dust. The pace was solid and Get Her Number just kept going.
Best I can tell Eclipse, West Point, Donegal, Starlight, Ten Strike, and a host of others do not have any $45,000 purchases headed to the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile. As we speak, Quixote Bloodstock is looking for new office space. Is there a futures book for the Kentucky Derby?
The answer is yes, some Caribbean book had Jackie’s Warrior at 33-1 and Spielberg at 66-1, but no action yet of Get Her Number.
What can we learn from Get Her Number:
- He was sold at the Ocala 2-yr old in training sale, consigned by Wavertree
- The breeder, Phil Robertson, is a small operation that produced at least one nice horse a few years ago, Argonne
- He was one of the 20% of horses that worked 2f instead of just 1f
- His work of 21.0 was above average, but 30 horses were faster
- of the 9 Dialed In’s that sold in Ocala, 4 sold for more than $45,000, 3 for less
- Dialed in was an “under the radar” leading fourth crop sire in 2019
- Bernstein is an above average broodmare sire, combining stamina and precocity
- the dam can be a scary slow horse, Fancier never got above a Equibase 75 fig – again this in the “negative result in first dam” approach to buying horses
- the dam ran for a $5,000 tag at Delta Downs
- The dam sold for $11,000 as a yearling
- The dam had only produced one very slow offspring, this was her 2nd foal
- The second dam by Fusaichi Pegasus and the third dam with Euro-pedigree added stamina
- The nick of Dialed In and Storm Cat is rated A++
- Peter Miller is an under-rated trainer of young horses
Or maybe this means that horse selection/breeding is a random number generator and any monkey throwing darts might pick a Breeder’s Cup horse just by accident.
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