OBS June 2008 review

[Calzone Lord]

[Calzone Lord]

[Calzone Lord]

The top 20 cost a combined total of $2,572,000 just in auction price.

Half of the 20 -- even to this day -- have never won a maiden race.

Of the ones who did, some of the others needed to drop into cheap maiden claiming races to do it.

None of the 20 ever came close to winning a stakes race of any kind.

The combined career earnings of all 20 horses didn't even pay for their upkeep. Had you bought all 20 -- you would have lost a lot more than the $2,572,000 purchase price.

[freddymo]

2.5 million on horses that you knew could run 1/4 of a mile or more quickly and only Driven by Solar was decent.

[Calzone Lord]

Look at this one:





They paid $125,000 for it -- gave it to Bob Baffert (who charges what -- $120 a day?) and ultimately, the horse finished 8th in a $3,500 maiden claiming race at Beulah Park.

The purse for that race at Beulah was just $3,800 -- so a win would have returned a lot less than 2K after the jockey and trainer is paid off. A win in that race might have paid for about 10 days in the Baffert barn or the cost to ship across country ... which they did twice with this horse.

Baffert obviously had the horse for several months before it eventually debuted.

[Round Pen]

not that it changes the outcome but a couple of those horses were actually RNA's just someone signed the ticket to make it look like they were sold

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Round Pen

not that it changes the outcome but a couple of those horses were actually RNA's just someone signed the ticket to make it look like they were sold

Yeah -- I saw that with De Chara. Probably trying to drive the price up.