My new racing hero is the unknown Mark Schwartz. Before this year, as an owner he was 0 for 24, mostly at Penn National. Then at Ocala this spring he bought a Wicked Strong colt for $5,000. He named the horse Brooklyn Strong, and BS won at first asking in Delaware.
Yesterday Brooklyn Strong showed up in the major leagues. He ran in a $100,000 NY-bred stakes race at Belmont. He broke slow, but ran a decent race, running 3rd a few lengths behind the winner. Maggie had nice thinks to say about his appearance in the paddock. He looks like a two turn horse. He is out of a Medaglia d’Oro mare that ran some decent allowance races, and ran in the Santa Anita Oaks. He worked an unremarkable 10.2 at Ocala. The dam has produced two $100,000 winners. The 2nd dam is by Thunder Gulch.
In many ways this is my model for next year’s Ocala sale:
- third tier sire, maybe under $10,000
- average work
- sneaky good dam racing record
- strong dam sire
- strong stamina oriented 2nd dam
- longer looking body
- all for under $10,000
Maybe you can find gold “in them thar hills”.
Buying A Race Horse 