The Saratoga yearling sale will occur in 3 weeks. The catalog is 210 horses. In 2019 the median price was $300,000+, so it is really out of my price range. In 2019 there were 10 horses that sold for $150,000 or less (the cheapest was $100,000)
Liz Crow thinks that you can sometimes find value in a horse that put in a sale that might be “over it’s head”, so I will at least consider the bargains.
The sale does not even include any Cairo Prince, Midnight Storm, American Freedom, Point of Entry, Gormley, or any other “low class riff-raff”. This is a sale for the cool kids.
There is one Honor Code:
#30 – f – Honor Code – You Make Me Sing by Unbridled Song, B nick, 4/24 foal, $170,000 RNA
The mare was slow, but she has produced a decent turf router in Annex. For under $150,000 this might be a decent idea, but in reality I would prefer to wait for Keeneland and find a better deal.
There is one Connect #12 and one Unified #190, that might be marginal prospects, but nothing else from my top 12 sires.
One other horse that might be interesting:
#180 -f – West Coast – Rock and Glory by Rock Hard Ten, A nick, 4/17 foal, private sale of $125,000
The mare was a solid router in Western Canada and Turf Paradise (she ran a 99). The second dam (by Southern Halo) ran a 110 in the Hollywood Oaks. This is a very solid idea, if I just close my eyes and remember that West Coast is a grandson of AP Indy. Maybe this is the perfect plodder/plodder, in a sale where she is the 200th best horse. The consigner is low profile Darby Dan Farm. Maybe I can bid $120,000 and sneak her out the side door while the cool kids fight over the Justify’s and Good Magic’s. It might be worth a try. Two pinhookers bought West Coast’s for $155,000 and $135,000 in the July F/T sale, but two others sold for less than $50,000.
Buying A Race Horse 