It was Just a One-Nyquist Stand...

[RolloTomasi]

FULL-BROTHER TO NYQUIST TO ENTER STUD IN CALIFORNIA

An unnamed, unraced full-brother to champion and leading freshman sire Nyquist will enter stud in California after selling for $32,000 during Friday's closing session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Is Friday’s closing session the sales equivalent of an “impulse buy”? You know, like grabbing a pack of Orbit or the National Enquirer? I guess “entering” a race is out of the question?

The 2-year-old Uncle Mo colt was purchased as a stallion prospect by E.A.S. Equine Alliance, and breeder Debbie Barkley signed the ticket.

Hold on, is that her real name or is she/he just using an alias? Did anyone check ID?

“I've got some very nice mares, and I intend to incorporate him into our breeding program,” Barkley said.

Do the mares have names at least?

“I'm excited to be able to have the opportunity to purchase a colt of this breeding quality and take him out to California.”

This is sort of akin to when the government decided in late 2019 to re-patriate all the ex-patriates living in China and send them to USAF bases in northern California…

Bred in Kentucky by Hinkle Farms, the colt is out of the winning Forestry mare Seeking Gabrielle, whose four winners from five runners are headlined by the champion juvenile and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, a member of Darley's stallion roster who finished the 2020 season as North America's leading freshman sire. His second dam is the Grade 2 winner Seeking Regina, who is the pivot point for runners including Grade 1 winner Sahara Sky and Grade 2 winner Seeking the Sky.

What the hell is a ‘pivot point’? Is that the same thing as a ‘granddam’ or a ‘second dam’?

Word to your ‘pivot point’…don’t disrespect your ‘pivot point’…I’m making this from ‘pivot point’s’ recipe pivoted down from several generations.

The colt was originally a $650,000 purchase by the Coolmore partnership at the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, but a tendon injury put a halt to his racing career before it could begin.

My 3-year prediction: “The colt was originally a $32,000 purchase by a person using an alias at the 2021 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, but surgery to remove his testicles put a halt to his stallion career…”

Barkley said on Friday that she had not decided on a farm for the colt to stand, or a name for him. However, she felt confident that she had the had the right horse when those blanks were filled.

Who the hell wrote this…Johnny Two Times?

Anyways, she/he doesn’t even have a place to keep this colt? Why are we getting so hasty here? Why has California been picked out as the place to stand him?

There are at least a hundred states to choose from between KY and CA.

“He's a really nice horse,” she said. “Really classy, a ton of quality. Everything you'd like to see in a nice racehorse.

Too bad he wasn’t a ‘racehorse’. Great cliched deconstruction of a ‘nice racehorse’, by the way. How the hell do you know so much about him when you just grabbed him in the check out line at Keeneland? And you don’t even know his name? Let’s be honest, is someone just re-living their college days here?

It's just unfortunate the turn of events were such that he wasn't able to move on with his racing career.

Yeah, it’s unfortunate he couldn’t withstand the rigors of training. But that’s not a characteristic you’d like to see in a nice racehorse, so no big deal…

I liked what I saw and was willing to go out out on a limb.

There’s Johnny Two Times again…messing up my one-liner:

If I were you, I wouldn’t go out on the limb with the tendon injury…

Good things are going to happen, I have a good feeling.”

That’s what I said when I grabbed that package of Hostess Twinkies at the counter when I was buying $7 worth of gas at ARCO trying to make it back to CA after having been back east for a couple of years.

Turned out Hostess had been out of business for at least 3 years and the bottoms of Twinkies are not normally green…

[RolloTomasi]

Well, they finally gave this horse a name.

Of course, 99% of the content in the stud advert documenting his entry into stud duty harps on the stallion exploits of Uncle Mo and full brother Nyquist.

All they could say (way at the bottom of the article) about this heretofore unnamed horse was:

On his own accord, Moquest sold to the Coolmore partnership for $650,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September Sale.

As if selling for 6 figures (and not earning a dime of it back) is some great accomplishment. And they conveniently leave out the fact that the current owners bought him at a fire sale for $32k recently.

Anyways, his name is MOQUEST.

Personally, I think NOQUEST would have been more apropos.

[blackthroatedwind]

Stud fee....we pay you?

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Stud fee....we pay you?

While other stallion farms are breathing a sigh of relief that the Jockey Club has backed off on the stallion cap at 140, these guys are petitioning for a the Jockey Club to impose a minimum number of mares that MUST be bred to each stallion from 0 to 8 so they can get their money back.