Lawyer Ron's Time

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Lawyer Ron's dam sold for just $11,000 as a yearling, and she never won a race.

I'd hardly say he's a blueblood.

Exactly. To me if a female family is anything but quality, so what if they pony up the dough for a respectable stud, some of those farms take the money and let you send over the plow mare, plus Langfuhr is no Danzig or Northern Dancer. He's good and all but it isn't as though they hit the stud jackpot there. Lawyer Ron's not a Bernardini, Lemon Drop Kid, or Empire Maker. He's not Lil E. Tee either but his book would've been one I'd see as involving some serious legwork to put together something spectacular. He'd have to earn his stallion reputation, not come in with some presumptive quality, hype ablaze. Even now he will but this, this will prop him up a little more. A track record in a G1 at Saratoga at a workable distance? Worth a lot. They like their records at a mile or just over right? Sires with flash at a mile get some attention for themselves since more horses end up there than 1 1/4-1/2 miles. I can't remember but I think it was the folks at Claiborne that mentioned they enjoyed that angle. Could be wrong. I've heard it from more than one place.

About him not showing anything extraodinary, there were at least a few people were falling all over themselves picking him for the Derby before. You don't do that as a nobody and wasn't he given a hero's welcome when he came back to Oaklawn before? He wasn't my Derby pick but I did enjoy him. I'd been diehard Barbaro for months and even thinking about other horses felt like blasphemy. Now I kinda enjoy seeing LR when he comes out. He's fun to watch.

[Danzig]

i remember the discussions about lawyer ron, the ones who picked him to win the derby got a lot of grief. the general reply from those who disdained him was that he was too slow--that he wasn't in the same league as the top horses last year, a lot of mention of his speed figures.