Some ideas are so crazy it is difficult to say them out loud, or write them in a blog. This is one of those ideas.
I was able to go to a small yearling sale at Lone Star last year. The best looking yearling I saw at that sale was a son of Shamen Ghost. He sold for $32,000 (well above average for this small sale). SG had 22 yearlings sell last year for a median of $12,000. Those bad results put SG on a trip to Canada where he now stands.
Hip #179 is a nice long looking horse. His walking video is exactly what I like to see. I doubt anyone should trust my visual judgement, but you have to start somewhere. Despite being a 5/9 foal, this crazy horse worked 10.0. He was only a $7,000 yearling purchase. He is consigned by an operation called Nice and Easy Thoroughbreds.
The female family breaks most off my rules. The mare Repossee made 59 very forgettable starts sprinting in West Virginia. Officer was a speedball that was the 4 to 5 favorite in the BC Juvenile, but he was a son of Bertrando. The second dam was a nice Tale of the Cat sprinter that ran a 90 Equibase fig in her short career.. This is the mares first foal. The nick is rated a D, but there is not much data.
Maybe this is just the precocity of the dam showing through, and Ghostzapper was a sprinter at 3. But Shamen Ghost was a late developer, and this horse does not look anything like a sprinter.
Let’s see what they want to pay for a horse that has almost negative pedigree. I am glad I am not in Ocala because I might just just throw up my hand and keep bidding all the way up to say $75,000, but maybe I can steal him for $35,000 if nobody wants a Shamen Ghost. Let’s watch.
Buying A Race Horse 