The yearling season is about to begin with select group of 346 horses going on sale in Lexington on July 14th. These horses included 139 by new freshman sires. This is a strange group of horses. It seems the better pedigrees are found in the Keeneland sale in September. This seems like a sale designed for pinhookers that want to get a head start.
My problem is that I am not that excited by this group of new sires. My first thoughts were that I had a slight interest in:
- Cloud Computing – combining Maclean’s Music and AP Indy, but I am quickly losing interest in the Maclean’s Music part of the story
- Bolt D’ Oro – combining Medaglia D’ Oro and AP Indy can’t be bad, but these might be too popular (this is the “buzz” new sire)
- Always Dreaming – I was never a real Bodemeister fan, so it is difficult to get to excited, but he did win the Derby
- Mendelssohn – at $35,000 these are likely to be too expensive
- Good Samaritan – maybe this is a decent $7,500 turf sire or is it a cheap knock-off of Into Mischief
- City of Light – this could be my Lane’s End champion, but at $40,000 there will be few bargains
- West Coast – another Lane’s End idea, but I am not a big Flatter fan
- Accelerate – maybe this is my plodder champion, but I was never a Lookin at Lucky fan
- Tapwrit – he did win the Belmont, but I really do not like the female family (Successful Appeal???)
- Funtastic – he did win a G1 at 1 3/8 miles
Justify will be too expensive at $125,000, and I am prefer Connect to the $30,000 Good Magic.
Maybe I am just being a grumpy old man, but I still prefer last year’s top ten to any of these new sires.
Buying A Race Horse 