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01-12-2009, 04:17 PM
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01-12-2009, 04:25 PM
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01-12-2009, 06:11 PM
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$65,000 looks like a terrific number for a Petitionville 2yo in this market considering Island Fashion appears to simply be a freak out of an otherwise totally unproductive mare.
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01-13-2009, 09:13 AM
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01-12-2009, 04:24 PM
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that's true....it cost island fashion, who is 'only' 9 compared to azeri. knocked her value in half from just a couple years ago. one would have to think tho that her value, coupled with the prospective foal, would still mean being worth more than the highest bid today. he should have sold her last september.
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01-12-2009, 05:14 PM
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Because she raced through age 6 Azeri is well behind in terms of production. By this age most mares have foals at the track, even in the shed. She's 11 and has no quantifiable production record because she has no foals to race. (I think she was barren at age 7.) She could reasonably be expected to produce 4 or even 5 more foals but if the first two don't pan out, how much will you get for the ones you breed out of her.
Despite her exceptional career, right now Azeri is an 11yo mare with no production record and average breeding. Yes, she's a legend (I was a huge fan) but when it comes to dollars and cents, you have to be analytical. As for those little foals, I always feel bad for babies like that. Poor little things are a few days old and standing in the sales ring after having to stand there in the January cold wondering what the he!! is going on. They are cute though. At least the buyer gets to look over the baby they are getting.
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RIP Monroe. Last edited by Linny : 01-12-2009 at 08:02 PM.
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01-12-2009, 05:34 PM
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http://www.drf.com/news/article/101007.html
an excerpt: Earlier this year, Paulson - son of the late Allen Paulson, Azeri's breeder and owner - bought back Azeri's A.P. Indy colt, Vallenzeri, for a record buy-back price of $7.7 million at the Keeneland September yearling sale. Although Paulson had solicited private offers after the auction, he now has the colt entered in Keeneland's April 2-year-old sale with consignor Eddie Woods. Asked whether Vallenzeri's $7.7 million buy-back might have dampened buyers' confidence that he was serious about selling Azeri, Paulson said: "I can't speak for other people, but, obviously, if they were in my shoes and had a living female Horse of the Year, the only three-time Eclipse Award-winning older mare champion ever, they would be in the same position I was in. I adjusted our reserve to reflect the market, but she has a value, and I was going to let her go for extremely good value, but unfortunately we're victims of the global financial market." Paulson indicated Monday that banks that hold Azeri and other horses in the Allen E. Paulson Living Trust as collateral had significant input on Azeri's reserve. Paulson said he is trying to "get it into position where we can wrap up the trust business in the next year and a half." That means all of the trust's horses will have to be sold in that time frame, he said.
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01-12-2009, 06:23 PM
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azeri would have sold for that amount a year ago. now, a year older, and the market's in the tank...
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01-12-2009, 06:38 PM
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01-13-2009, 11:40 AM
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No difference in the quality of the foals but in the # of foals you can expect to get from her, assuming good health and an average lifespan.
Also, since Vallenzeri is not exactly bred to be a hotshot 2yo (or even an early 3yo type) it means that the potential buyer would have to wait that much longer for Azeri's strength or weakness to show. From a buyers point of view, I'd like to see a mare with a 2yo by Speightstown or other "2yo sire" because there is a greater chance that early wins by that foal make the one the mare is carrying more useful and therefor more valuable at auction. Remember too that the market was not kind to mares like Winning Colors and Lady's Secret after their early foals were not that good. If Azeri's first 3 or 4 foals struggle at the races do you think tht her 5th (born when she's about 17) will sell for a lot of money? I don't.
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01-13-2009, 11:47 AM
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01-13-2009, 11:59 AM
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HAHA, tell us what you really think of TAP?
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01-13-2009, 12:53 PM
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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