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This is a blog about my first steps toward buying a successful race horse.

You want to start at the beginning, scroll all the way to the bottom and find the first post entitled INTRODUCTION.

Or you can start by reviewing the summary below:

Summary

Someday I would like to own a successful race horse. Here is what I have accomplished in the last 2 months in my first steps toward that goal:

1. I have purchased 2-3% interests in 4 real horses from three different partnership operations. My total investment is about $8,000. Two are working nicely, one is sick, and the other is sore.
2. I have contacted most of the big partnerships operations, and I am reviewing each of their new offerings.
3. I have watched the three largest 2-year old in training sales and built a list of about 50 horses as “imaginary” purchases.
4. I also went back to last years yearling sales and developed two lists of horses to “compete” with the yearling portfolio of Ten Strike Racing. I also learned a lot from a Ten Strike presentation about their yearling purchases.
5. I have developed a “value-oriented” strategy to select 2-year olds that is “outside the mainstream”, and maybe downright crazy. the strategy focuses on horses that might be a little slower to develop.
6. I have estimated some very rough “valuation metrics”
7. I have begun to understand the “data analytics” that are available at these sales.
8. I have begun to understand the concept of “nicks”.
9. I am preparing for the yearling sales season which will start in early September.
10. I have started to read the Thoroughbred Daily New each day (especially the ads).
11. I have a long list of horses in my Equibase Virtual Stable and get daily updates on works and races
12. I have written about 120 blog posts to document my journey down this long and winding road.