I believe it was the great Joisey breeder FREDDYrico MOsio who said it best...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

"Breed the slowest you have, to the slowest you can afford, and hope for the best"

.....

Yet another glorious vindication of this belief occured today.

Fasig Tipton Calder hip #59 sold for a cool $250,000

His sire Giacomo currently stands for 5K.

His dam Fifth Avenue Doll was last seen on the racetrack in 2005 .. when she was almost lapped in a 3-turn $2,500 claiming race at Charles Town.




While most male horses who can't beat anyone in the field for a $2,500 claiming tag at Charles Town often end up on the dinner plate of this guy...



... these "half-a-nickle" claiming races at Charles Town are proving to be splendid places to look for Cubic Zirconia in the rough caliber broodmare prospects.

According to the catalog page ... this strapping son of Giacomo was only Fifth Avenue Doll's 2nd foal ... her first foal is "unplaced in two starts in England"

Viva La Giacomo!!!

[Cannon Shell]

She did win 10 times

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

She did win 10 times

Looking through charts - all 10 wins came for a tag while on or near the bottom. Her 2nd career win came for 5K N2L.

She was sound ... and a productive horse for a 7K yearling buy ... I'll give her that.

Giacomo the move-up stallion!

[MISTERGEE]

alot of these prices are head scratchers on the high and low side

[randallscott35]

At least Giacomo was sound. Slow and sound.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by MISTERGEE

alot of these prices are head scratchers on the high and low side

I don't think the great Giac-Oh-Mo-Ian Hope!! was all that much of a head scratcher.

He was a 180k yearling buy to start with ... and he looked pretty decent in the preview video ... so 250K is within reason of what you might have projected him to sell for based solely on what he sold for as a yearling and how he breezed.

[Sightseek]

I thought he looked decent in the video. I liked the Rockport Harbor that sold in the 60's too.

[MISTERGEE]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I don't think the great Giac-Oh-Mo-Ian Hope!! was all that much of a head scratcher.

He was a 180k yearling buy to start with ... and he looked pretty decent in the preview video ... so 250K is within reason of what you might have projected him to sell for based solely on what he sold for as a yearling and how he breezed.

mostly that 250k compared to what some of the others have gone for in here seems odd

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Giacomo the throw-up stallion!

FTFY

Stronach has had a lot of success making stallions out of horses that others thought werent worth standing....but I think he is way off base with this one.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

FTFY

Stronach has had a lot of success making stallions out of horses that others thought werent worth standing....but I think he is way off base with this one.

His stud fee's only 5K. It's not crazy high expectations we are talking about or anything ... and heck ... they should have kept Giacomo racing with the way the older male division totally deteriorated once he retired.

In Giacomo's final career start - he was 4th beaten 4.5 lengths to Invasor, Bernardini, and Premium Tap in the BC Classic - while running a 109 Beyer. Retired sound.

Maybe his offspring might show more speed than you'd expect ... his sire and dam both had absolutely tremendous raw speed ... he... ah, not so much.

[Linny]

Lion Heart's dam was a $5k claimer at Suffolk if I recall.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

His stud fee's only 5K. It's not crazy high expectations we are talking about or anything ... and heck ... they should have kept Giacomo racing with the way the older male division totally deteriorated once he retired.

In Giacomo's final career start - he was 4th beaten 4.5 lengths to Invasor, Bernardini, and Premium Tap in the BC Classic - while running a 109 Beyer. Retired sound.

Maybe his offspring might show more speed than you'd expect ... his sire and dam both had absolutely tremendous raw speed ... he... ah, not so much.

he started at 10k and while Stronach always breeds his own mares to his stallions he seemingly was breeding him to way more than Giacomo had a right to breed. They also sold a ton of mares in foal to him including some nice, young prospects but I refused to put money into a giacomo foal and passed on all of them.

[South Beach Luv]

He's looks good though, or did in 2008 anyway

[asudevil]

While most male horses who can't beat anyone in the field for a $2,500 claiming tag at Charles Town often end up on the dinner plate of this guy...




I Cried!!