As a retired golfer I must admit that I frequently took mulligans during practice rounds. I will take another one right here before Jackie’s Warrior runs in the Southwest.
Maybe I gave up too early on the Maclean’s Music story. The main evidence that MM’s can get two turns is Cloud Computing. This sire was the focus of my June Ocala sale, and the results have been horrible. I mythically “bought” two MM’s at that sale, and neither has even started so far. MM did not have a good year with nothing really running other than Jackie’s Warrior. But Distorted Humor is a difficult sire to categorize. He seems to get mainly sprinters, but he also produced Drosselmeyer.
Maybe Jackie’s Warrior was just a young bully, and now his classmates have caught up in size. But maybe JW’s only mistake was chasing a crazy pace in the BC Juvenile that no horse could withstand. As I think about MM before this afternoon’s Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn, I get that gnawing feeling that maybe I gave up too soon on him. I did get JW at 17-1 in the first Kentucky Derby futures pool, we will if that was a good bet in a few hours
So I want to add one more expensive MM to my list of top 10 yearlings fron the Keenland sale. Let’s add:
Maclean’s Music- Dazzling by Galileo (hip #1326) $100,000
Adding a Galileo mare and a Danehill 2nd dam is the stamina influence that MM should need. The buyer was a pinhooker called Quarter Pole Enterprises, and this horse is in the Ocala March sale.
Buying A Race Horse 