Another breakdown at Turfway

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Richi you guys who use pedigree to judge a horse who has already run faster on the numbers than 99% of horses who will start from that crop just lose me.
His debut was VERY nice, and I don't think they overpaid based on that race.

I loved that horse at the sale, but I wouldn't pay $800,000 for him. We would have gone up to about $350,000 or so for that horse if he would have passed our vet. He didn't even pass our vet.

By the way, I'm not particularly big on pedigree when I go to a sale. The main thing that I'm interested in is a horse's ability and you can tell quite a bit about a horse's ability from watching them work. That being said, I'm still not going to pay $800,000 for a horse with no pedigree. Even if he's a really good horse and he wins a couple of stakes races and makes a few hundred thouand dollars, you will still lose money on him. The horse would have to be a super-horse for you to make money on him.