One horse to use as a model for this sale is Dream Shake. DS ran a 96 Beyer in his first start, and today takes on Life is Good in the G2 San Felipe. TDN declared him a “Rising Star”.
Last year I was not that familiar with Twirling Candy during the June Ocala sale. I ‘discovered” him while preparing for the FT Timonium sale. I gave myself a “mulligan”, and looked back to the Ocala sale and chose Dream Shake from the 22 Twirling Candy’s offered at Ocala.
Dream Shake sold for $75,000, or just less than 2x his stud fee. He worked an above average 10.1 T Ocala. His mare ran a Equibase fig of 94 on her best day at Remington, but was very average at best. She was a daughter of stamina sire Street Cry, and the 2nd dam was top quality filly, who also produced two graded stakes winners. This is an above average pedigree, but not a spectacular pedigree. The nick was a D. He was an 4/15 foal. He was $32,000 yearling that was pinhooked by Foxpointe Thorooughbreds, and consigned by Cary Frommer
Here was him photo:
I can’t make the link work, but is worth the effort to see the photo.
- Go to Ocala Sales website and go to “auctions”, slide down to “sales results”, and then find the Spring 2020 sales results
- click on the “sortable sales results”
- find hip #1008, and go the photo, you can also watch his breeze
This is what a good horse looks like as a 2-yr old in training. Note that Dream Shake is not real mature looking in this photo. He does have nice “long” look to his body. He is not a sprinter. He did not race until February of his 2 year old season.
Dream Shake is what I would call a “realistic” model. Maybe $75,000 is the “sweet spot”. This is the same price Dare to Dream paid for Quick Tempo.
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Obviously the “miracle” model is Brooklyn Strong. He was a $5,000 purchase out of completely disrespected sire Wicked Strong. Mom was a daughter of Medalglia d Oro, and ran a 90+ Equibase fig going 1 3/8 miles on the turf.
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