Joel...

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Thoughts on this guy?

http://www.risinghill.com/DeputyWildCat.pdf

He obviously not short on pedigree, as his mom was a champ and his half-bro was a personal favorite of mine....on top of that, Ivan Denisovich is a very solid yound horse and Hollywood Wildcat has proven to be as good a producer as racemare....I really thought his full brother - Minister's Wild Cat - was going to prove to be a top class horse at one time when Neil Drysdale had him early on in his career, but he wound up have some soundness issues and showed that he was of the caliber to compete with the top 3-year-olds of his generation.

This colt doesn't have bad looks and I happen to like sons of Deputy Minister as sires more than I like him (relative to stud fee of course). The fact that they feel he can fit in a very competitive market like Florida is a solid endorsement of what they think of him, because traditionally a horse that is a non-winner usually starts their career standing in a small market such as Indiana, etc...and then if he showed success he would move to a bigger market like Florida....my primary concern would be his soundness...if you liked his pedigree and looks and felt like $2,500 was value in breeding to him, I would want to take a trip to the stud farm to inspect him....he obviously had pretty severe issues to only race once.....you'd want to make sure that he wasn't a "pretzel" when looking at his legs or whereever the origin of his career ending injury occured..

If he built nicely...good conformation...good bone, and you feel he has some class to him but just an unfortunate step that was serious enough to end his career - then I wouldn't be discouraged about breeding to him depending on your broodmare.

Hope this helps...